This Friday's 2018 Black River Day in the St Elizabeth capital makes the second consecutive time Stitchie will be performing at the annual event.This time around, he will be on stage in the night, where he hopes to perform to persons who may not...
Playwright and producer Basil Dawkins remembers a time when Fridays were a strong theatre-going night - then in came the Happy Hour watering-hole phenomenon, with reduced costs for liquor and, in most cases, free entry. That hit one of the weekend...
There is an act that I call riddim rape , which I first saw at a gas station on Mannings Hill Road, St Andrew, at a time when there were still Shell-branded service stations in Jamaica.A car with a few men on board and tunes pumping, drove in not to...
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga's shaping of West Kingston's physical and institutional infrastructure, along with his involvement in music, will be reflected in his being honoured by Tivoli High's graduates in New York, USA.Seaga was integral to...
Monte Blake of Merritone - the oldest continuously active sound system in the world - is clear about his objective for the outfit formed by his father Val, and continued by his sons in the next 24 months. "My goal is to get Merritone to that magic...
Clarence 'Count Prince' Miller, particularly renowned for his humorous song Mule Train, is ill in England. Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, former Jamaican high commissioner to England, made the revelations Monday evening, as she addressed the gathering for...
Last week, Raging Fyah band's lead singer Kumar Bent announced that he is quitting the group, which earned a Best Reggae Album Grammy nomination in 2017 for Everlasting. The band is slated to perform next Saturday at Reggae Sumfest's Reggae Night,...
Since JC Lodge's performance at Rebel Salute earlier this year and then the reports of her not-so-pleasant experience at the recent Groovin' in the Park in New York, my thoughts about the connection between Jamaican music and the telephone have...
In a summer season of longer daylight hours, there may just still be a glow in the sky when Donnie McClurkin speaks at National Heroes Park, Kingston, tomorrow evening. He is scheduled to bring the word to the throng expected for Jamaica Fun in the...
The big stage performances, which begin at 4 p.m. with the Young Ambassadors and go through to closing performer Papa San for a slated 11 p.m. end, will naturally be the focal point of the large audience expected for Saturday's Fun in the Son 2018....
Kingsley 'King Omar' Goodison, who stages the annual Tribute to the Greats, says that "at 21 you are of age. You can leave your parents' house and be a man or woman. You are mature". Not that the combination of an awards ceremony, concert and dance...
After straddling the risks of insurance as branch manager of Globe Insurance Co, Montego Bay, and the risk of theatre in the Montego Bay Little Theatre Movement (MBLTM), director and actor Douglas Prout has lived in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, for...
Singer Bushman's first album, Nyah Man Chant, was produced by Steely and Clevie and released on Greensleeves. Among the songs on it are Call The Hearse, the multi-artiste Remember the Days and Grow Your Natty. Seven years later, the Signs set, put...
'Accurate' is Kabaka Pyramid's watchword, which sometimes punctuates his performances (and there was the Accurate mixtape of 2016, produced by Walshy Fire of the Major Lazer outfit ). And it could apply to the extension of his vocal skills in...
Sometimes the do-overs can have hilarious unintended side effects, although they may not be funny to some of the people involved. Many years ago when Many Rivers to Cross was well established as the signature song of one particular Rising Stars...
There are any number of songs about the physical dancehall experience (regardless of which genre of music is being played there at a given moment) and, from that perspective, Asadenaki and Aza Lineage's single Rockin' goes over well covered ground....
There is no escaping the World Cup, and for those who actually watch the matches - or even the highlights - there is no escaping the advertisements associated with it (has anyone else wondered if the moving car on Hyundai's digital pitch-side...
In Meaning of Life on his debut album, Kontraband, Kabaka Pyramid deejays about not so much an individual's life cycle, but the cycles that lives go through as there is death and rebirth. He references the Bible and also wryly includes romance and...
For his recently released Conquering Lion album, singer Bushman did a set of T-shirts with the album's cover art across the chest - his Burning Bushes label utilised as a signature on the right of the lower front. After this initial foray, he...
The biography singer Aneil says her first recording - the love song Let Me Be - was released in June 2015. Three years later, it is the title track of her debut EP - four songs that do double duty. One is an introduction to her ability to pen lyrics...
Football has meaning beyond the television screen for Kabaka Pyramid. In the week and a half he had in Jamaica before hitting the road for yet another US stint, 'the beautiful game' was part of the physical preparation, along with rest - and, of...
Kabaka Pyramid's self-sufficiency extends to recording most of his vocals alone in his base studio off Half-Way Tree Road doing the audio engineering himself. It is consistent with his initial 2004 foray into committing his voice to posterity,...
In a scene from Young & Wreckless, now playing at the Phoenix Theatre in New Kingston, Teeta (Daniela Gordon) stretches a long arm upwards to illustrate the level as she tells Tiana (the name Crystal Fletcher...
Having been to the opening and a few events at Famous, including an excellent showing from Sanchez before he returned to the big stages in Jamaica, I have some thoughts on that Famous flop which are related to the staging of events - mostly...
Singer Dwight 'Bushman' Duncan's 2018 Conquering Lion album, is a musical statement of self-sufficiency. Not only is it on his own Burning Bushes imprint, but much of its production was done at his studio in Duhaney Pen (commonly called Berlin -...
