This week, Stephen Marley premiered the video for his highly anticipated new single “Old Soul.” The retrospective video reveals never-before-seen old family photos, vintage vinyl album covers, and a collage of Jamaican music history, and it is available now on all streaming platforms and Stephen Marley’s Official YouTube Channel via Tuff Gong Collective/UMe/Ghetto Youths International.
The award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer chronicles his growth and innocence as a youth Marley kid, the second son of Bob Marley, and his personal rites of passage through the family legacy. The warm acoustic track takes the listener on a coming-of-age journey through allusions to personal legends and eras of musical influences that “made it all possible.”
“We come to free the people’s minds,” says Marley, a multi-Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and producer. “Only way you can free your soul is to free your mind. My father said, ‘No chains on my feet, but I’m not free,’ and then he come to say, ‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.’ Anywhere the music calls us, we are going to be there to spread the message of love and unity.”
Summer 2023 also marks the return of Stephen’s “Babylon By Bus Summer Tour,” which includes a cavalcade of hand-picked support artists appearing at various venues across the country, including Fortunate Youth, Skip Marley, Jesse Royal, Hirie, Arise Roots and Roots of Creation.
The tour will begin in San Diego, CA, in June- with multiple stops in California before heading to Colorado, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Chicago, Cape Cod, Brooklyn, NY, and more – and ends in Florida in August. See the full date below – find tickets and learn more here.
Listen to “Old Soul” below.
BABYLON BY BUS SUMMER TOUR DATES
Sat 6/24 Del Mar, CA – San Diego County Fair “
Sun 6/25 Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre ^
Wed 6/28 Reno, NV – Robert Z Hawkins Amphitheatre ^
Fri 6/30 Fresno, CA – Tower Theatre
Sat 7/1 Costa Mesa, CA – OC Fair ^#
Sun 7/2 Saratoga, CA – Mountain Winery ^
Mon 7/3 San Rafael, CA – Marin County Fair
Thu 7/6 Bellvue, CO – Mishawaka Amphitheatre *
Sat 7/8 Buena Vista, CO – The LAWN #
Sun 7/9 Gunnison, CO – I Bar Ranch #
Tue 7/11 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex *
Thu 7/13 Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels “#
Fri 7/14 Tempe, AZ – Marquee “#
Sat 7/15 Santa Fe, NM – The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing “#
Mon 7/17 Wichita, KS – Wave Outdoors >
Tue 7/18 Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall >
Thu 7/20 Chicago, IL – Millennium Park Music Series
Fri 7/21 St. Louis, MO – The Big Top >
Sat 7/22 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverfront Live Outdoors >
Sun 7/23 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Outdoors >
Wed 7/26 Hyannis, MA – Cape Cod Melody Tent +°
Thu 7/27 Webster, MA – Indian Ranch +°
Fri 7/28 Cohasset, MA – South Shore Music Circus +°
Sat 7/29 East Hampton, NY – The Clubhouse +
Sun 7/30 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel +
Tue 8/1 Nantucket, MA – Nantucket Dreamland
Wed 8/2 Nantucket, MA – Nantucket Dreamland
Fri 8/4 Asheville, NC – Salvage Station
Sat 8/5 Longs, SC – NMB Drag
Sun 8/6 Charleston, SC – The Refinery
Tue 8/9 Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
Thu 8/10 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock *
Fri 8/11 St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheater Backyard *=
Sat 8/12 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live *
* with Skip Marley
^ with Fortunate Youth
“ with Hirie
+ with Jesse Royal
# with Arise Roots
= with Artikal Sound System
> with Subatomic Sound System
° with Roots of Creation° with Roots of Creation
Visit http://stephenmarleymusic.com for all upcoming tour dates.
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