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Ja was good in Lewiston Saturday night as Junior Marvin and the Legendary Wailers closed day of music with a full set of Bob Marley tunes before an appreciative crowd in Academy Park.
The show was the product of Barry Entertainment Production and events.
Marvin is fronting the remainder of Bob Marley’s band and it ain’t broke. There was no need to fix it.
They hit all the high notes from “I shot the Sheriff” to “One Love” and everything in between.
It was the second big Saturday show of the season for Barry, turning the clock back 20 years to when shows at Artpark were free and fantastic. There is nothing wrong with how Artpark runs today but it is great to have free live music with a respectful and appreciative crowd in Lewiston.
The number of people toting coolers rather than buying drink to support the event was a little disconcerting.
The park was ringed with vendors as well, some of the every-week Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market crowd and a whole bag of cannabis vendors as in at least 15. “Bag” that’s the collective noun for a group of potheads, right?
We arrived in time to catch the end of Neville Francis, as well as Organ Fairchild. Fairchild played a killer cover of the Allman Brothers “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.”
The music scene in Lewiston is improving every week, whether Mondays at the Gazebo, Wednesdays and Saturdays at Academy Park, Fridays at Tin Pan Alley or Thursdays at Gallo art is alive.
