Admission to the concert is $17, with proceeds to benefit the Maine Coalition for Food Security and two local nonprofit organizations, PreventionWorks and the Downtown Neighborhood Association. Advance tickets are available at Bull Moose Music locations throughout Maine and New Hampshire.

With more than four decades in music, Jamaican singer Fredrick “Toots” Hibbert came up in the same Kingston scene that produced Bob Marley, Desmond Dekker and Peter Tosh. He and two other singers formed the Maytals in 1962, and by 1968 Hibbert had parlayed the Maytals’ ska credentials into prominence in the emerging reggae style (in fact, their single “Do the Reggay” made the first published use of the term). Bringing American gospel and soul influences to reggae’s limber, propulsive rhythms, Hibbert positioned the group for international success.

The breakthrough came with the Maytals’ contributions (“Pressure Drop,” “Sweet and Dandy”) to the soundtrack for The Harder They Come, the Jimmy Cliff film that put reggae into the musical mainstream. Cementing their success was “Funky Kingston,” the single best Maytals album and their first for a major label, Island.

Hibbert disbanded the Maytals in 1981, going on to make another classic recording, Toots in Memphis. He reformed the band in the early 1990s and has toured more or less nonstop since, bringing to new generations his winning combination of killer rhythms, heartfelt vocals and the soul flavors of the American South.

Founded in Providence and now based in Boston, The Slip — brothers Brad and Andrew Barr, who play guitar and percussion respectively, and bassist Marc Friedman — have made a career of avoiding musical labels. What they have not avoided is adventure, leaping fearlessly into eclectic improvisional flights that have won them a reputation for spontaneity and a mysterious musical telepathy. They have recorded four albums (the latest, Angels Come on Time, is on Rykodisc) and have played the Newport Jazz Festival, the Berkshire Mountain Music Festival, and smaller venues in 43 states, Canada and Japan.

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Critically acclaimed for their ability to connect reggae’s rich and spiritual heritage with today’s music, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers have carried on their father Bob Marley’s legacy of delivering stirring roots music as well as offering up a dizzying array of other styles and influences in the seven recordings they have released since the mid-1980s.

The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at all Strawberries locations; Bull Moose Records in Brunswick, Windham and Portland; Good Vibrations in Augusta; Sound Source in Bangor; Play It Again in Yarmouth; Dr. Records in Orono; and Record and CD Exchange in Portland. If not sold out, tickets will be available at the door.

The Marley lineup includes Ziggy, brother Stephen and sisters Cedella and Sharon along with other family members. The Melody Makers’ latest album, Free Like We Want 2 Be (1995), recorded in their father’s remodeled old Tuff Gong Studio in Jamaica (where he recorded many of his classics), strikes a balance between their two earlier hit albums, Conscious Party (1988) and One Bright Day (1989).

As storytellers and musicians since adolescence, the Melody Makers have often held to the original delivery of Jamaican patois, but have also learned to echo the characteristics of today’s reggae and R&B scenes. Their last two albums, both self-produced, showcased the group’s experiments with the hip-hop tinged Jahmekya (1991) and the more roots-driven Joy and Blues (1993).

With the group’s latest release, Ziggy Marley said: “I think in the beginning, when we started out, people could only see us in my father’s shadow. I think with each album they sensed that we had something unique to say, that we continue to grow.”

The Melody Makers, cited on many occasions for their contribution to social and political awareness, including an award from the United Nations, have explored a variety of ways to effect change, including communicating on the Internet. “I’m realizing that communicating in this way can be just like music. You can communicate truth through it. We can change the world on-line,” he said.