Ready for reggae?

Celebrate Bob Marley’s 80th birthday the only proper way: with live reggae music in Lincoln City this Friday, Feb. 7.

Reggae band Suumo Kome, or One Love, led by OB Addy from Ghana, will headline this year's Bob Marley Tribute at the Beach Club Event Center.

Marley, who passed away in 1981, increased the visibility of Jamaican music worldwide. His album "Legend" remains the best-selling reggae album of all time. Only Marley songs will be featured at the concert this year.

Addy, the founder and leader of Suumo Kome, was born and raised in a traditional "house of drumming" in Ghana, which meant being at the heart of an extraordinarily rich music culture. His background and training are in ceremonial West African drum and dance, but his first musical love has always been reggae, and his dream was to put together a reggae band that would combine Afro-Caribbean reggae rhythms with the full-tilt African drums and percussion of which he is a master.

Opening for such reggae icons as Burning Spear, the Wailers, Steel Pulse and most eminent reggae artists touring the West Coast, Addy has fast become a favorite with serious reggae fans who yearn for a return to the era of roots rock-reggae music.

The opening act for the tribute concert is JaSkaMon, a Northwest-based nine-piece act led by singer Barry Klusman, known for unique combinations of American pop blended with Caribbean beats. Though the band has many original tunes and has produced eight albums since joining together in 2013, this memorial concert will feature a selection of 10 Marley tunes including "Soul Shakedown Party," "No More Trouble" and "Three Little Birds."

Special Jamaican food arrangements and Marley trivia prizes are planned.

The tribute is from 7 to 11 pm at the Beach Club Event Center, located at 2020 NE 22nd Street in Lincoln City. Tickets are $10.