Ma Barley

Adapting to health changes in personnel, MA BARLEY has added and subtracted, multiplied, but never divided!  Blessings to Joey who had brutal neck surgery and is recovering, we hear, not without pain…, also, pain is with the band as we will miss him rocking up the house at MA BARLEY events…Speaking of EVOLUTION we picked up Mister TOM PEAKE on the drum set, JEREMY moved over to the Djembe, CHAD and KEVIN are trading off at bass and rhythm, and now JEFFREY REYNOLDS, electric violin, is filling in the sustained chords and adding some serious chunk- BRIGIDO, MARK, and TERRY are still singing it up while playing the congas, saxophones, flutes, bells, whistles- TERRY moved over to lead guitar… so when we are all there, we are eight!  Too much IRIE is never enough!
Gigs coming up:  Fort George Brewery on NewYears!  We’ll lighten up without Jeremy and Tom for this one and play as RAW BARLEY… 9:00 until 2009.
BOB MARLEY’S BIRTHDAY!   ASTORIA EVENT CENTER-  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH 8:00 pm…live broadcast on KMUN/KTCB “COAST COMMUNITY RADIO”  during the 8 to 10 Caribbean Moon reggae program broadcast.  Jamaican Jerk Chicken, salads, birthday cake- FAMILIES WELCOME .  This is the 10th ANNUAL REGGAE PARTY sponsored by Caribbean Moon.  If you are out of town you can listen in online on your computer at http://coastradio.org”>
BOB MARLEY’S BIRTHDAY was the impetus for the creation of MA BARLEY, so, of course, this is the biggest, happiest, fabulous feast of food and reggae music during the cold dark winters of the great northwest! The band has some dynamic new songs for your listening and dancing pleasure, as well as the traditional versions you love and remember.