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Pato Banton is a grammy nominated reggae legend who has recorded and toured the world with a variety of artists including The English Beat, Steel Pulse, UB40 & STING!
Join us as International Reggae Superstar Pato Banton & The Now Generation Featuring Antoinette RootsDawtah, comes to Gualala Arts for a Free Outdoor Concert for the CommUNITY, Sunday, July 18. Gates open at 4 pm at Gualala Arts Center. Tickets must be picked up in person in advance at either the Gualala Arts Center office or at the Dolphin Gallery. Limit of two (2) tickets per person.
Pizza and Drinks available for purchase to benefit Gualala Arts Center.
Come Dance and EnJOY Life!
About Pato Banton
During the year 2000, while in the midst of a global trek with Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD organization, that combined huge festivals with music outreach programs to poor and underprivileged communities, Pato learned that two of his sons had been shot in a drive-by shooting! He immediately put his career on hold and turned his sorrow into the impetus for community & educational initiatives that would consume the next six years of his life.
Pato created an organization called “Musical Connections” and in partnership the Community Safety Team, provided tuition and counseling for “at risk” young people in 16 different communities across his city of Birmingham, UK. This project was so successful that Pato was approached by the West Midlands Police Department to tackle the ongoing problem of gun crime in some of the poorest neighborhoods. Within a few years this partnership greatly reduced gun crime across the entire city and Pato was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the BBC and entered into the British Music Hall of Fame during the same year.
In 2006, after feeling that he had planted enough seeds of progress within his home community, Pato decided to relocate to Southern California and embark on the second phase of his musical journey, taking with him the years of experience in the field of Loving Service. Since then Pato has recorded many albums and collaborated with artists all over the world. His most recent albums Love Is The Greatest & The Words Of Rastafari were released on Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Records International.
Pato Banton’s four-decade public presence has increasingly transcended music to convey a positive & uplifting message of global peace and love for humanity. Now based in Southern California, he continues to record and tour the world extensively with his band The Now Generation, while simultaneously serving as a Teacher, Minister, Counselor and Mentor to his Fans, Friends & Family worldwide!