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Tom "SEEFARI" Carroll has been singing and playing Bob Marley’s music for more than 25 years and his annual tribute shows are consistently among his most well-attended.
SEEFARI's Bob Marley Tribute is not an impersonation but rather a reverent interpretation. A loving tribute to the greatest reggae artist of all time, with an emphasis on Bob Marley’s classic songs and his enduring legacy as a song-writer, performer and originator of the musical style known as reggae. SEEFARI invokes the spirit of Bob Marley to bring the true roots reggae vibes to the modern era.

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DAYTON CITY PAPER

February 23, 2011

Critic’s Pick – Bob Marley Tribute Show

Bob Marley Tribute Show

By Matt Clevenger

Feb. 6 would have been Bob Marley’s 66^th birthday and fans of the late world music icon can celebrate the occasion with internationally-known reggae artist Seefari this Sat., Feb. 26, as he presents his Annual Bob Marley Tribute Show at Peach’s Grill in Yellow Springs. Known for a string of award-winning reggae hits, Seefari has also been playing Bob Marley’s music for more than 25 years, and has workedonstage or in the studio with many reggae stars including the Wailers, Marley’s songwriting partner Sangie Davis and the Gypsi Fari band, who recorded with Marley in Jamaica. He spent four years as the headlining act for the Houston, Texas-based Bob Marley Festival Tour. Peach’s Grill recently re-tooled their sound system, as well, and the Bob Marley Tribute will be one of the first shows to take advantage of the newly overhauled equipment. Saturday’s show starts at 10 p.m. and admission is $5

Dayton Daily News

Celebrating Bob Marley

By Don Thrasher
Contributing Writer

Friday, February 06, 2009

Bob Marley was on the international music scene for less than a decade before passing away at age 36, but the reggae superstar left an indelible impression on musicians and music fans in the same way as Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

Marley was a major influence on local musician Tom "Seefari" Carroll, who has been at the forefront of the Midwest reggae scene since the early 1980s. In honor of the Jamaican legend — who would've turned 64 on Friday, Feb. 6 — he has mounted his annual Bob Marley Day shows, at Oregon Express in Dayton on Friday, Feb. 6, and at Peach's Grill in Yellow Springs on Saturday, Feb. 7.

Seefari took a few minutes last week to discuss Bob Marley and his enduring musical legacy.

Bob's birthday

"We've been doing these Bob Marley shows forever. They're always fun. I've been doing some of these songs for 25 plus years and I still like playing them. Bob just wrote great songs. There's the whole mythology and the whole story of his life, which is all part of what made him so popular, but when it comes down to it, for me as a musician, it's just his really incredible songs."

Connective tissue

"The Bob Marley songbook is sort of the connective tissue for reggae, along with Studio 1 and some other reggae basics. What Miles Davis, John Coltrane and people like that are to jazz musicians, Bob Marley's music is really like that for reggae musicians. It's something everybody can relate to."

Reggae sensibility

"The whole sensibility of reggae is defined in Bob's music. He was really kind of a reggae fusionist in a way because he took reggae and added elements of blues, rock, funk, African music and even jazz. He was influenced by Bob Dylan and people like that and he found a way to be able to express all those things and still come out with one singular type of music."

Freedom songs

"There was a certain freedom in the way Bob wrote. A lot of his songs don't necessarily have a rhyme pattern. It's more about phrasing and conveying your message and things like that as opposed to just having to do it a certain way. If you watch one of Bob's videos, you see he never sang a song the same way twice. He was really about being in the moment and being in the spirit and for me that was probably the biggest thing."

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SEEFARI has toured extensively, headlining Festivals in Las Vegas, Houston, Oklahoma City, Klamath, CA, Detroit, Dallas/Ft Worth, Cincinnati, Dayton, San Antonio, Sedona, AZ and many more.

US-based Reggae Veteran SEEFARI's latest full-length CD "Rasta Italist' is an international roots reggae hit, with heavy airplay and chart action, 3 AMMA awards in 2008, 2009, a song featured on "Island hoppers TV" (Sunsports network) and critical comparisons to Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Pablo Moses.

"SEEFARI was nothing short of a roots sound power who brought man, woman and child to their feet!" - clevelandreggae.com
 

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The group Seefari played at our Juneteenth 2010 celebration. They were the main attraction at the end of the day, everybody loved the performance. The group was easy to work with prior to the event, they were not high maintance and their price fit our budget!

 

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Organization: Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation
Event Date: June 19th, 2010
Event: Ethnic Celebration in Fort Wayne, IN
Services provided: Bob Marley Tribute Band, Caribbean/Island Music, Reggae Band

 

 

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Re SEEFARI Duo: This group was wonderful. They were punctual, professional, talented and very personable. Our group loved them!! Thanks so much, and I wouldn't hesitate to book them again!.

Diana Amstutz, General Manager, Pine Valley Country Club, Fort Wayne, Indiana.