Hey- You might like to sport one or two – Tom and Emily in Fort Lauderdale designed an elemental logo- the locals Brian and Becky of Astoria Screen Printing did a righteous job making the colors magical, so … You can be the first ones to select your own. They’ll be available at Bob Marley’s Birthday Party on Friday, February 6th at the Astoria Event Center. We’re thinking you’d pay about 15 bucks?
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.
Now mabarley.com presents our calendar
See the Calendar link at the right.
Hey- folks in Astoria and the surrounding area are thirsty. Thirsty for reggae. Ma Barley delivered on Friday, and Ma Barley will deliver for you! We do big ol parties… let us know- we’ll get back to you. Jah Love people…Thanks for coming to Bob’s birthday party.
I just came across this local blog:
Jah!
Is When It Hits You Feel No Pain.I felt no pain Friday night, only love as I played with my band mates and watched the crowd dance like they were at Sunsplash. Thanks to Terry for creating our site, Karri for the pictures (and the cake), to Mark for making this band a reality, and to all of the people who grooved off our music and threw back the positive vibrations.
Gratitude Jeremy
There is a player on our music page.
Images by Karri from the party at the Astoria Event Center
Clicking the link above will load a page of over a hundred 150-pixel-wide thumbnails. Clicking any thumbnail will load a page with a 660 px jpg. Clicking that picture will load the hugest copy, a 2816px jpg. Wow what a party. the Astoria Event Center rocked our world for just a few hours. Thank you all you wonderful people who have given us so much support.
Band members please email me at terry at ravenbear.net so that I can register you on our wordpress blog here. We are all gonna be bloggers.
Wow. We really rocked the house at the Event Center Friday! Here’s a sample! To download the music use the link below. You may want to right-click on the link and choose the download or “save” option. This file can be used to burn a cd. It is 65 minutes in length and it is many songs all in one track. It can be loaded on to an ipod or other mp3 player device. Or you can probably just click on the link to play it.
Link to Mp3 recording of the Party 64:57- 59.5 MB file (edit: see the music page)
Here’s a smaller file for those with slower Tubes. See the music page for a flash player for more easy and cross-platform playing.