Reggae Great “Pato Banton” Live in Concert + Food Drive (Final GG Park Concert of 2023)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Value Culture & Illuminate Live present Reggae’s Greatest Pato Banton and the Now Generation with Rootsdawtah, Cutch-I, plus DJ Theory, Jah Yzer and Special Guests, with hosts Irie Dole & Guid8nce. Live Crucial Reggae Sunday Final Show of 2023 and End Hunger Food Drive in Golden Gate Park!

Presented by Illuminate Live , Value Culture and San Francisco Recreation and Parks.

With support from Nice Up Radio & Jah Warrior Shelter Hi Fi

This event is free, family friendly, all ages, and outdoors. But we need your help to spread the word to your friends and neighbors and Give Thanks with us by bringing canned/packaged food donations.

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Join us for an unforgettable in-person event at the Spreckels Temple of Music Bandshell, Music Concourse! Get ready to groove to the infectious rhythms of Pato Banton and special guests as they deliver the final show of 2023 at the Golden Gate Park Music Concourse Bandshell. This Crucial Reggae Sunday is not to be missed!

But that’s not all – we’re hosting an END HUNGER Food Drive in the spirit of Thanksgiving season to give back to our community. Bring non-perishable food items and help those in need. Let’s come together and make a positive impact with the SF Marin Food Bank! END HUNGER in San Francisco and Marin!

Most needed foods:

Tuna, Chicken, Salmon Low-Sodium Soups, Nut Butters in pop-top cans or tear pouches, Chili, Stews, Pasta, Rice, Low-Sugar Cereals in sealed, new packages.

We do not accept pet food, glass containers, or opened packages

PLEASE DONATE

#FoodForAll #EndHungerTogether

sfmfoodbank.org/food-fund-drives • (415) 282-1900 x 350

So mark your calendars NOVEMBER 12th, 2023 and gather your friends and family for this incredible event. Get ready to dance, sing, and enjoy the good vibes of reggae music. See you there!

Pato Banton – www.officialpatobanton.com

Pato Banton is a grammy nominated reggae legend that has recorded and toured the world with The English Beat, Steel Pulse, UB40 & STING! (just to name a few) . 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.

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, and helping diverse communities globally in many ways like building orphanages in Africa. Pato Banton is the epitome of a conscious artist.

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About Value Culture

The mission of Value Culture is to produce and support artistic, educational, charitable, and spiritual events to inspire individuals to give back to their communities. Value Culture is a California 501c3 non profit organization removing barriers to arts, culture, and philanthropy.

About Illuminate

Illuminate rallies large groups of people together to create impossible works of public art that, through awe, free humanity’s better nature. They’ve resurrected the bandshell, created the Bay Lights, Lit up the Ping Triangle, and shot lasers down Market St. and on to Grace Cathedral. Today we make it formal, declaring San Francisco the City of Awe. It’s an open-source moniker, one we hope will be embraced locally and internationally as we reinvent ourselves yet again. Together, we shall transform San Francisco through ten thousand direct actions, each designed to bring beauty into our collective lives. Plant a flower. Pick up a broom. Take control of your block. Paint a mural. Make joyous music. Join us in creating large-scale works of public art. Welcome to the City of Awe.

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