BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:119818 DTSTAMP:20260415T021746Z SUMMARY:The Wailers & Gondwana (Chile) @ Mezzanine DESCRIPTION: THU, JUN 7 The Wailers & Gondwana (Chile)  @ Mezzanine, 444 Jessie St., SF 9pm-2am, 21+\nhttp://www.mezzaninesf.com\nThe WAIL ERS - Together with Bob Marley, the Wailers have sold in excess of 250 million albums worldwide. In England alone, they've notched up over t wenty chart hits, including seven Top 10 entries. Outside of their gro undbreaking work with Marley, the Wailers have also played or performe d with international acts like Sting, the Fugees, Stevie Wonder, Carlo s Santana, and Alpha Blondy, as well as reggae legends such as Peter T osh, Bunny Wailer, and Burning Spear. As the greatest living exponents of Jamaica's reggae tradition, the Wailers have completed innumerable other tours, playing to an estimated 24 million people across the glo be. They have also been the first reggae band to tour new territories on many occasions, including Africa and the Far East. Their nucleus fo rmed in 1969, when Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh recruited the Barrett brothers - bassist Aston \"Family Man\" and drummer Carly - from Lee Perry's Upsetters to play on hits such as Lively Up Yoursel f, Trenchtown Rock, Duppy Conqueror, and many more besides. Inspired b y Rastafari and their ambitions of reaching an international audience, this is the line-up that pioneered roots rock reggae, and signed to I sland Records in 1971. Bunny and Peter left two years later. It was at this point that the in-demand Barrett brothers - whose rhythms also u nderpinned innumerable seventies' reggae hits by other acts - assumed the title of Wailers, and backed Marley on the group's international b reakthrough album, Natty Dread. Under Family Man's musical leadership, they then partnered Bob Marley on the succession of hit singles and a lbums that made him a global icon, winner of several Lifetime Achievem ent awards, and Jamaica's best-loved musical superstar. Drummer Carlto n \"Carlie\" Barrett died in 1987, leaving his brother as the main ben eficiary of the Wailers' mantle. Subsequent line-ups have revolved aro und Family Man, who is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest bass players. Modest and unassuming, he was present on all of those un forgettable performances by Bob Marley & The Wailers from the seventie s. He and lead singer Elan Atias form the main axis of the current Wai lers - a group that's one of the last, great reggae institutions, yet which refuses to live off past glories. That's because whereas Family Man represents tried and trusted roots authenticity, Elan injects fres h excitement into a show that continues to attract enthusiastic audien ces from around the world. GONDWANA - While reggae might be generally associated with Jamaica and then Africa, the influence of Bob Marley and roots reggae has traveled the world, even into South America where it inspired the formation of Gondwana, a Chilean band that has slowly made an impact around the globe. Formed in 1987, during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship in their native land, the band had to keep a relatively low profile until the political climate eased, as the gove rnment wasn't too keen on a younger generation airing beliefs that did n't mesh with their own, especially if they involved Rastafarianism, w ith its peaceful approach to life. In some ways, that slow development was good, because it gave them a chance to work out their own sound, which, according to singer Quique Niera, became \"very rockish, but we also have the South American traditional rhythms, like the bolero.\" That mix showed up to some extent on their debut Together in 1996, but really came to fruition four years later on their sophomore effort, S econd Coming.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskool.com/event s/the-wailers-gondwana-chile-mezzanine DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120607T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120608T020000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca LOCATION:Mezzanine WEBSITE:http://mezzaninesf.com URL:http://mezzaninesf.com CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Earshot Entertainment ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2247914706?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Andrew D owd-Reilly":http://trueskool.com/profile/AndrewDowdReilly ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jenna Te kiel":http://trueskool.com/profile/JennaTekiel ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jon Schr oeder":http://trueskool.com/profile/JonSchroeder ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="diana di battista":http://trueskool.com/profile/dianadibattista ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Mars Tod ay":http://trueskool.com/profile/MrMarsToday END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR