On May 3rd, our DC area moms meetup group got together for a movie night in DC at the E Street theater. We watched “Marley,” an epic biography of the life of iconic reggae singer Bob Marley. (DC Area SocaMoms, join the meetup group here: http://www.meetup.com/Caribbean-Mom-Meetup-Group-DC-MD-VA/)
On May 21st, I am co-hosting a Twitter Fete (Twitter Party) for Bob Marley fans with Jamaican super mom – Kamila McDonald. Whether you have seen the movie or not, join us at 10:00 pm on Twitter to discuss the man, the movie, and the music.
Enjoy Bob Marley trivia, facts, and giveaway from Universal Music, Marley Coffee, and House of Marley.
Follow @socamomdc, @MEELAmac, and @socamomgiveaway on Twitter. For the party, we are using the hashtag #MarleyTweetFete
Here’s some more information about the movie:
Kevin Macdonald’s biopic is a must see for fans and educational for those who aren’t old enough to remember his career. The singer’s life has been widely reported and scrutinised but this documentary meets the people that influenced him as a person and his music.
The documentary is also a musical journey, explaining the development of reggae and the sub-culture is created and the elements that make a track reggae in the first place. The lyrics in the songs add to the tale and are explained, analysed, played back to relatives to garner their reaction of their new found fresh perspective.
Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald manages to put Bob’s family and friends at ease coaxing out eccentric personalities and charming witty tales while fully capturing all the quirkiness of them as individuals and their surroundings. He even tracks down Bob’s first music teacher who remembers the first song she taught him. The testimony follows the reggae artist through marriage, affairs, children (eleven known descendants from seven different women), politics, exile and finally cancer. Macdonald uses a wide variety of archive imagery and footage of Marley’s life and filmed as far afield as Ghana, Japan, the UK as well as the US and Marley’s home in Jamaica.
