There is soul music, and then there is music with soul. Reggae falls in the latter category, and this was exposed, expressed and enjoyed at this week’s staging of Reggae Wednesdays, the weekly Reggae Month concert at Emancipation Park in New...
The colossal dance, music and social legacy of three extraordinarily great Jamaicans was celebrated with much fanfare inside the Little Theatre on Tuesday evening. Lusty shouts of ‘bravo’ filtered through the air as patrons showered appreciation on...
The thought of singing and dancing to a song about the coronavirus may not be particularly alluring, and would probably be seen as drastically downplaying the seriousness of the dreaded virus, which has already killed 2,000 persons. However, half a...
CVM Television Limited is currently before the court, in an action brought against them by the Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (JACAP), a performance rights licensing body. The case got under way in the Supreme Court on...
It was in 2014 that producer, Dr Brian Heap, staged a three-day production called the 8x10 Festival, which he says is a concept that worked well then, and would still be practical today. An enthusiastic Heap told The Gleaner that it involved the...
Deneice Williams came, saw and conquered, prime time emcee Richie B stated confidently as he took to the stage right after the Grammy award winning vocalist’s outstanding performance at Red Rose for Gregory, on Saturday night at the Liguanea Golf...
Reggae icon Freddie McGregor is still basking in the honour of being the very first recipient of the ‘Black History Month meets Reggae Icon Award,’ which was presented to him recently at a glitzy, red-carpet event in the city of Miramar in Florida...
From the infectious sounds of Big Youth's cool and confident crooning, as he eschewed new-age political correctness which dictates ‘the ‘N’ word’ for nigger’, and instead melodiously toasted, “every Nigger is a star”, to Munga Honorable’s brash and...
Rastafarian reggae artiste Capleton is one of the headline acts for the concerts which are part of the package at this year’s Jamaica Rum Festival, and he is only too aware that some persons are questioning his presence on the show. Emphasising...
It was real ‘big people ting’ inside the Stella Maris auditorium on Shortwood Road, on Sunday evening, when some of the island’s finest singers and musicians, along with an emcee/comedian, displayed their absolute mastery in their chosen field, in...
The ‘Founding Father of Hip Hop’ is a title that the Jamaican creator of the genre wears very well, and he laughs when asked how it feels to be so acknowledged. “Despite everything, I have never forgotten my roots,” DJ Kool Herc told The Gleaner...
Papa Michigan’s One Love Jamdown, with its strident dismissal of segregation at every level, powered by the lusty Rope In ‘riddim’, certainly embodied the theme for the kickoff staging of Reggae Wednesdays, 'One Big Family'. The old-school deejay...
Rastafarian elder and reggae singer, Denroy Morgan, is releasing a new single today. However, that is a small part of a much more serious mission on which he has militantly embarked. He is making a case for the United Nations (UN) to declare...
Most persons with a February 6 birthday are said to be born on the ‘earthstrong’ of reggae legend, Robert Nesta Marley. Derrick Harriott, however, has a slightly different take. “Bob Marley was born on my birthday,” he states very matter-of-factly...
Attorney-at-law and reggae music connoisseur Bert Samuels has a deep respect for the music and the message of iconic reggae singer Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley, who would have celebrated his 75th birthday today. But he also has a case against the “...
Despite appeals from players within the music industry and positive reports of its effectiveness, the two-hour extension granted for the hosting of entertainment events has come to an end. This was disclosed by participants at a recent Gleaner...
In piloting last December’s legislation to secure a temporary extension to the party hours regulated by the Noise Abatement Act, Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang acknowledged that as Government “we must create the balance between the...
Roots reggae sibling group Morgan Heritage – namely Roy ‘Gramps’ Morgan, Peter ‘Peetah’ Morgan and Memmalatel ‘Mojo’ Morgan – have embraced a new challenge, the inaugural staging of the iJAM Music Festival. Scheduled for Orlando’s Tinker Field in...
Frankie Campbell, frontman of legendary Jamaican band Fab 5, while questioning the inclusion of a sound clash on the stage of the just-concluded roots reggae festival, Rebel Salute, is also calling out emcee Mutabaruka for his “utterances”. For...
Tonight Rebel Salute will witness a glorious Dubplate Display with two selectors who have a lot of sauce – the legendary sound man Jack Scorpio of Black Scorpio fame and Dynamq, the Sudanese Child, also known as the notorious River Nile Crocodile...
Having created a musical blaze in 2019, with ‘Catch A Fire’ as the celebratory theme for what would have been Bob Marley’s 74th birthday, the Marleys have now set the stage to be redeemed. This year’s diamond jubilee of the reggae legend and...
“Surreal” was the term singer and performer extraordinaire Nadine Sutherland, used to describe her career hitting the big 4-0 in December 2019. This milestone marks the journey from winning the inaugural Tastee Contest in 1979 to the many triumphs...
Prominent Jamaican dub poet, broadcaster and social activist Mutabaruka, while pointing out that the media has not made a big enough deal of last year being dubbed ‘The Year of Return’ by Ghana, says he hopes that dancehall star Popcaan will return...
Declaring that “it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness,” Eric Nathan, president of the East Jamaica Conference (EJC) of Seventh-day Adventists, officially launched Instruments 4 Change, the conference’s ambitious crime-reduction...
Bimonthly music soirée, Jazz in the Gardens, is helping to keep live music alive and the performers at Sunday’s 2019 curtain closer – which added cabaret to its offering – made it a point of duty to heap praises on promoters Ken Nelson, Nancy...
