Using audio recordings of Garvey's own words, visuals on big screen and the live performances of Jahiti, Isha Bel and Keith Campbell, Steven Golding presented the strong connection between National Hero the Rt Excellent Marcus Garvey and the...
Professor Ralston 'Rex' Nettleford would have turned 85 years old on February 3 this year. He passed away in the United States in 2010, a day before his birthday, and so while the annual tribute staged by the Rex Nettleford Foundation marks his date...
There are elements of the video for Samory I's version of, Is It Because I'm Black (a song originally done by Syl Johnson from the USA, with Jamaica's Ken Boothe doing a superb rendition) which are familiar. However, the detailing of a video which...
The last of three letters identifying the subject of Monday evening's listening session at Gussie Clarke's Anchor Studios turned out to have a double meaning.As a mathematical symbol, the 'X' added to 'EP' meant multiples, as those gathered in the...
The theme of this year's staging of the Grounation series each Sunday in February at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), East Street, Kingston, is 'Garvey's Ghost: Muse, Cultural Arts, Aesthetics, Freedom Sounds'. Although a part of all aspects of the...
There is a strong association between Bunny Rugs' death and the American football season climax, Super Bowl, for Cat Coore. He was watching the game at a friend's house when Third World's bass guitarist, Richie Daley, called him from Rugs' Orlando...
While Bob Marley's and Dennis Brown's birthdays on February 1 and 6 respectively dominate Reggae Month, there are some standout creators in Jamaican popular music who also died in the month. One of them is former Third World band lead singer,...
"Call de police for me Tell dem it's a state of emergency." John Wayne, mid-1980s on the Sleng Teng riddim I look forward to Reggae Month each year, not least of all because there tends to be a number of discussions during which persons who have had...
Kingsley Goodison, who for 20 consecutive years has staged Tribute to the Greats honouring standouts of Jamaican popular music's earlier years, saw a lot of famed performers during his long association with Clement Dodd's Studio One. While many of...
On Saturday night, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia 'Babsy' Grange was the guest speaker at a concert by reggae singer Spiritual, and she used the performer's similarity to another Jamaican artiste, as a starting point to...
Singer Spiritual reserved his most flamboyant foot movement for the encore song, Give Thanks of Praise, of his approximately one-hour performance at Pulse's Trafalgar Road, New Kingston, headquarters on Saturday night. After Tommy Cowan's...
From accustomed usage, the letters GPA would automatically represent grade point average, which measures a student's overall academic standard. However, for Conroy Wilson and Michael Holgate, co-authors of Your Empowerment GPA, the letters stand for...
Just ahead of February, Reggae Month 2018, the long process of the music genre being officially inscribed as originating from Jamaica is at a critical point.Speaking at the Pulse headquarters, New Kingston, on Saturday ahead of singer Spiritual's...
Last weekend's staging of Rebel Salute, the 25th anniversary of deejay Tony Rebel's birthday celebration which has grown into a globally significant two-day music and lifestyle festival, and the proposed Music Walk of Fame outside Emancipation Park...
By its very nature, the dubplate - a personalised recording for a sound system or selector by a vocalist, should signify a connection of some sort between the person or entity whose name is being called and the person singing or deejaying it....
I have told this story in this space before, so those who have read about a trip to the Bob Marley Museum in the mid-1990s when I shouted out "lie!", skip to paragraph three.So there I was, in the courtyard of 56 Hope Road, St Andrew, among a group...
Singer Freddie McGregor, who counts So I'll Wait For You, Big Ship, Push Come to Shove and Prophecy among his decades of popular recordings, knows a thing or two or more about Rebel Salute.He told The Gleaner he performed on the first one in 1994...
The house lights go down and an audience waits in darkness to be enveloped in the theatre's magic. Soon enough, the stage is lit and, to go with the sights, sounds in sync with the actors' and actresses' dialogue and actions. There is someone off...
