Shanique Wong-Fatt, a 19-year-old XLCR past student who enjoys writing poetry and painting, has entered the Pulse Search For The Million Dollar Girl...
Three Rossini virtuosos star in La Cenerentola - a vocal tour de force for mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, singing her first Met performance in the Cinderella title role, and tenors Juan Diego Florez and Javier Camarena, who share the role of her Prince...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two months ahead of Jamaica's largest reggae festival, Reggae Sumfest, organisers, Summerfest Productions, have named a new chairman, Godfrey Dyer.
For 28 years, the Jamaica Musical Theatre Company (JMTC) has presented an annual concert series, held on the first Sunday of each month for the first six months of the year...
What can a poor parson do when his two daughters, April and June, whom he has brought up in the church, decide to seek love outside the holy walls and in the secular world? What happens when family members file for them to live in England?...
One of the most little-known musical exports from Jamaica celebrated 50 years this week since landing in England on what was a pioneering tour which introduced a new type of music, setting the stage for Jamaican...
The fourth annual staging of the Jamaica Poetry Festival on August 10 at Louise Bennett Garden Theatre has something special this time around.This year, the festival includes the return of Jean 'Binta'...
Last Wednesday morning, James Haynes, son of late Skatalites guitarist Jerome 'Jah Jerry' Haynes, OD, made good on his 2013 promise to increase the donations made in his father's name.He told those gathered at the School of Music...
As Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (JACAP) continues to pay out more royalties to overseas entities, there is a call from the organisation's chairman, Paul Barclay...
Tropicana Tropics has signed on as the title sponsor for the annual Mother's Day concert, 'To Mom with Love', scheduled to be held at the Lime Golf Academy on Sunday...
Time Unit Music recording artiste, Tactical, is celebrating his first taste of success as a professional after scoring a feature in a soon-to-be released dancehall documentary for one of Korea's biggest broadcasting...
Tyra Banks charity fights insecurity - Tyra Banks was very insecure as a teenager. The supermodel started her own charity, the TZONE Foundation, to empower young women to discover their own strengths and realise their ambitions...
Local and international fans of the 22nd Reggae Sumfest can continue to purchase tickets at reduced rates for the event up to May 15, 2014.The special early-bird rates were originally slated to end on Wednesday, April 30, however, the organisers have...
International reggae singer Alvin James Brown, aka A.J. Brown, who has been prominent in Jamaica's popular music for almost four decades, will be presented with the Reggae Ambassador Award in Canada by the Ardenne Alumni Association...
With past hit albums such as Louder Than Ever and School of Volume, Nicholas Eccleston (popularly known as DJ Nicholas) is no stranger to success in the gospel-reggae community.
Ziggy Marley was the mid-show guest on the HBO seasonal programme Real Time with Bill. He joined the host and his other mid-show guest to talk about his latest CD, Fly Rasta, before his upcoming tour of North America. Marley was philosophical ...
Head of Firefly Films, Paul Bucknor, is gearing up to start work on a children's musical titled SWAG.Bucknor, who was also the producer of the award-winning film Better Mus' Come, (which will air on BBC2 on May 9), returned...
Spider-Man can still sling it at the box office. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 debuted with US$92 million in North American cinemas over the weekend, according to studio estimates yesterday...
Caribbean fever will take over the tri-state area on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, with the staging of the inaugural Oracabessa Festival at Roy Wilkins Park in New York.Festival organisers Irie Jam Media Radio and Bobby Clarke Entertainment are gearing...
