Music Review: MIMS is impressive on new CD
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- Entertainment abounds: world music
- Aswad reunites for Island’s 50th anniversary
Music Review: MIMS is impressive on new CD
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"MIMS also links up with LeToya Luckett ("Love Rollercoaster") J. Holiday ("Be My Hustla") Nice & Smooth ("I Do") and rapper Tech N9ne ("Rock ‘N Rollin"). His most impressive track comes with Ky-Mani Marley on reggae-styled track "ne Day" – a song where MIMS returns to his Jamaican roots as a reggae singer. CHECK UT THIS TRACK: n one of the few tracks where MIMS isn’t featured with anyone else the rapper shows he can hold it down all by himself on "In My Life (Why h Why). " Loading commenting interface.
Reggae & World music is set to come alive again this summer on one …
WebWire (press release)
Stir in a pinch of sandy beach excellent camping a beautiful park a scoop of live music a sprinkling of crafts food drum and dance troops children’s activities and plenty of interactive exhibits Hudson River Eco Reggae & World Music Fest Returns this Summer with a Purpose at Croton Point Park Croton on Hudson in Westchester County NY an half and hour from the Bronx and one hour from New York City. NEW YRK NY May 15 2009 – Reggae is set to come alive again this summer on one of New York’s most magnificent rivers as some of the industry’s top conscious artists celebrate another Hudson River EC Reggae & World Music Fest extravaganza with a purpose. The annual Hudson River EC Reggae & World Music Fest returns this August 22 2009 from noon to 8 pm with Brigadier Jerry Mystic Dub Living Truth and soon to be confirmed – Sister Carol Fat Joe and Toots and the Maytals among others. This year the festival now in its 2nd year returns with a purpose and partnered with Carib ID as to spread the Census message to Caribbean nationals while spotlighting the need to save the environment through green initiatives. Presented by Greenergy Productions LLC the annual festival will share the message why every Caribbean national must fill out the 2010 Census form that will be mailed to households next March and write in their country of origin under question 8 while ticking `No Not Hispanic. `The day-long family-oriented event will also feature Hip Hop Latin and World Music entertainment also with food and craft vendors as well as EC workshops and children’s activities at the Children’s Pavilion such as storytelling face painting EC puppet show and a VIP Pavilion “Taste of the Caribbean” offering a variety of foods and beverages. To help ensure a successful eco-area organizers have partnered with the non-profit organization Sustainable Living Roadshow a coalition of educators entertainers and activists who tour across the country in a fleet of renewable fuel vehicles to empower communities and individuals to utilize sustainable living strategies for a healthier lifestyle and planet.
Patients’ works to be displayed in ArtSpress Yourself show
Sacramento Bee
17 2009 – 12:00 am| Page 2ILast Modified: Sunday May. 17 2009 – 10:44 am Reggae music blares from the front of the classroom and after a while Edgar Velasco gets into it. Soulja Boy is more his style really but this reggae groove proves infectious and it inspires him. Shaggy head bobbing and dyed yellow rattail flapping to the beat the 19-year-old from Tijuana Mexico wields oil pastel crayons to work on his latest artistic creation on the desk before him. He looks up only to change colors and briefly acknowledge encouraging words from around the room. In 10 minutes – K 15 tops – Velasco finishes a swirling Van Gogh of canvas fraught with vivid purple green and yellow circles resembling upside-down peace signs.
Entertainment abounds: world music
Boston Globe
com BURNING SPEAR In the early days of roots reggae Burning Spear was the band and Winston Rodney its deeply spiritual fiercely political Rastafarian leader. As he enters his fifth decade as a recording artist Spear has lost none of his fire. This is roots reggae for purists mystics and seekers a hyper-orthodox counterpoint to Bob Marley and the Wailers in their day and all the more crucial to have around now. July 8 the Paradise.
Aswad reunites for Island’s 50th anniversary
Jamaica Gleaner
‘ So if at this point in time we couldn’t come together and work together we’d have been lying about everything we sung about. Regardless of whether we’re doing different things we can still come together and be unified. What do you think was the secret of Aswad’s success in the late ’80s and ’90s?Back then a lot of British reggae music wasn’t considered to be authentic. It was often seen as a lukewarm copy of what was coming out of Jamaica. But we didn’t listen to Jamaican tracks and try to copy them. We told our own story so it was original. And we were really fortunate to see at least a couple of our tracks get elevated into the classics of Jamaica.
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