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Gambia: Morgan Family in Town for JFP
AllAfrica.com – Jan 22, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );The United States-based Jamaican world renowned reggae artists were received at the airport by the executives of the organising committee of their upcoming concerts amid hundreds of reggae enthusiasts who escorted the visiting Jamaican stars from the airport terminal through the streets of Greater Banjul Area. A line of concerts are being organised by Bright Star Production in collaboration with Jammeh Foundation for Peace (JFP). The main idea behind the programme is to raise funds to augment the resource base of JFP. Speaking in an interview with the Daily bserver shortly before their arrival Ansumana Drammeh chairperson of the Media and Publicity Sub-committee said JFP is solely sponsored by President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh noting that coming up with such an idea is one of the ways that can help strengthen the foundation.
Pound for Pound A Veggie Peddler Takes n the EU
Wall Street Journal (subscription) – Jan 22, 2008
Shouts from traders touting deals like “50p a basket of mangoes” mingled with reggae music blasting from a stall that sells posters and T-shirts. Insulated from the chilly January day in a faux-fur- trimmed hat Ms. Devers chatted up customers from behind her covered stall piled with eggplant ginger green beans (£1 a pound for the beans). Though her signs currently carry prices in pounds as well as the equivalent in kilograms she said her customers prefer pounds — and sometimes complain when she uses kilos that she’s trying to cheat them. “I always shop in pounds” said Sophia Levicki a 60-year-old part-time shop clerk and a regular at Ms.
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MTV.com – Jan 22, 2008
href} {button:true} );The Northeast and many other parts of the country are locked in the dreary winter blues at the moment with the denizens nipping at their frostbitten fingertips and gnawing on their chapped lips in anticipation of sunnier days and warmer nights. But lucky for the music fans among them a magical spring awaits inside your local CD store! Grab a light jacket and a pair of binoculars and take a stroll with us as we check out this week’s New Releases… It’s inhabited by the Dream Tiger which uses instruments as varied as the sitar harmonium and water harp to relay its eclectic ethnic-folk blend. Behind the beast are members of His Name Is Alive utrageous Cherry and Destroy All Monsters the latter of which deserve a little attention of their own in light of a reissue of their Live in Tokyo album. We finish our swim and lay out on the beach where we draw a Line in the Sand with Zox a gang of reggae-rockers from Providence Rhode Island. They whisper sweet nothings into our ears like “I Miss You” “Goodnight” and “Don’t Believe in Love. As we head home we spot more Bodies of Water and our head begins to twitter. Then we remember that a Los Angeles band warned us this would happen — “Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink” the guys told us and we should have trusted their word seeing as how they’ve toured in the past with the Go! Team and Phosphorescent. While we’re distracted a terrifying Two Ton Sloth suddenly approaches.
Freedom Rock
Washington Post – Jan 22, 2008
Freedom du Lac is online every Tuesday at 2 p. ET to talk about the latest on the music scene: alternative country alt-country pop hyphy harp-rock reggae reggaeton R and B and whatever it is that Britney Spears does… Freedom du Lac is online every Tuesday at 2 p. ET to talk about the latest on the music scene: alternative country alt-country pop hyphy harp-rock reggae reggaeton R and B and whatever it is that Britney Spears does.
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