In the last few days, planeloads of Jamaicans have been landing in Trinidad and Tobago for its annual carnival. Jamaicans are not the only ones pulled to this wild event.
FOR JAMAICA Inc hosts a simultaneous global premiere of Listen 2 The Call, a benefit song for Haiti, today at 4:53 p.m.The song is dedicated to the victims and survivors of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake which shook Haiti on January 12.Listen 2 The Call...
The vibe and energy did not start to build at Bacchanal Treasures on Friday night at Mas Camp, New Kingston, until the selector started playing some of the older soca songs.
When Sparkles Disco played Pearl Jam's Footsteps and Alison Hinds' Faluma...
Valentine's Day was definitely a family day out for many and Something Extra captured some of them at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel and The Jamaica Pegasus hotel yesterday....
The Wailers were a musically cohesive unit on all angles. Together, texture, vocal flexibility, timbre, sense of musicality, thematic interest, kinship and vision was reflected in their overall sound and informed their spirituality and aesthetic concepts....
Acting in plays/TV commercials, teaching, singing, motivational speaking and designing advertising campaigns are some of the many things Joan Andrea Hutchinson does. However, she is better known locally and internationally for her poems, monologues, stories and performances, written and done in Jamaican Creole (JC).
Ten years ago when Alberto D'Ascola settled in Port Antonio, Portland, all he wanted to do was record some wicked tunes with the biggest names in dancehall/reggae.
The Promised Land, Dennis Brown's early 1980s song of joy (the promised land, going to the promised land), concern (there is a lot of work to be done in the promised land), hope...
Judge the latest album by Sanchez, Now and Forever (produced by Donovan Germain, released by VP Records), by its simple, effective cover. In that image which makes the all-important first impression, Sanchez is the epitome of sartorial savoir-faire mature dancehall style...
Mervyn Eyre (left), president and chief executive officer, Fujitsu Caribbean (Jamaica) Limited, has the full attention of (from right) Fay Jacobs, Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC); Bruce Levy, Myers Fletcher & Gordon (MF&G), and presenter Tricia-Gaye Watson, attorney-at-law, MF&G, at the conclusion of the presentation on 'The Cybercrimes Act'...
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways/I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight/For the ends of Being and ideal Grace," are the first four lines from British poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous poem.
Reggae crooner Freddie McGregor will be delivering all his hit love songs this Sunday at Studio 38 at the Pulse Centre, New Kingston. McGregor's Valentine's Day performance marks the third in Studio 38's live concert series...
The Gleaner asked Dr Donna Hope Marquis, lecturer in reggae studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, if academic examination of Jamaican music still needs legitimacy and she says "in Jamaica, yes". "You still have to be explaining why you are studying it.
Internationally acclaimed reggae entertainer Jimmy Cliff is expected to be present at the LINKZ Awards Show at Margaritaville in Montego Bay on Friday to collect a Lifetime Achievement Award. According to CEO of LINKZ 96 FM, Roger Allen, the decision to present ...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (ACIJ) director Bernard Jankee made it clear that remounting 'Movements Through the Passage' had not been planned in honour of the late Professor Rex Nettleford. However, speaking at Monday's launch in the ACIJ's Ocean Boulevard...
