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Timeline: Reggae in Boston

1968 - 2009

By CHRIS FARAONE | May 21, 2009

Jimmy Cliff, from Reggae Scrapbook, by Peter Simon and Roger Steffens

1975

Bob Marley brings his Natty Dread tour to Boston and does 14 shows in 7 nights - by far the most on the tour.

WBCN sales rep Kenny Greenblatt brings Jimmy Cliff to the Orson Welles Theatre in Cambridge to surprise fans watching The Harder They Come.

READ: Reggae Revival: Booming in Boston's underground, Caribbean riddims are about to burst back into the mainstream. By Chris Faraone

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