Border Roots to play Music Under the Stars!
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- Border Roots to play Music Under the Stars!
- Ziggy Marley: Passing the music to the kids
- FR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Tooting Toots’ horn
- Reggae star offers his prescription for healing
- Music festival to rock Rib Mountain
Border Roots to play Music Under the Stars!
Newspaper Tree
They have showcased their talent in Chihuahua City Ciudad Juarez El Paso Las Cruces and Alamogordo. Their current line up features some of the best talent El Paso has to offer. Band founder and lead singer Mark Alvarado has essentially led the charge to ensure that genuine Reggae music has a home in El Paso. Since 1999 Border Roots has shared the stage with international Reggae acts such as Big Mountain Eek A Mouse Pato Banton The Itals Culture The Meditations The English Beat The Melodians and Andrew Tosh. The band has also opened up for Malo and the Greg Rollie band. Border Roots is known for their socially conscious lyrics and cultural anthems of liberation and unity. The band has built a solid reputation for building a sound that is supported by some of the most polished musicians in the region.
Ziggy Marley: Passing the music to the kids
San Jose Mercury News
Reggae music people people who play it people who listen to it always would pass the music to their kids you know?”"It came to me that it’s time that we did music especially directed to children and we started to write the songs. I think — thinking much deeper into it — it’s a way for me to connect with the audience if we can connect to them in this early stage in their lives the changes that we want to see in this world is more possible than if we just making music for people who are already kind of set in their ways. “I think that was the reason why this was put into my lap to do this. Because the message was for the children it’s really the children who have the open-mindedness it’s the children that can make the changes we are talking about today happen. “We can inspire them you know?”And what changes are we talking about?”Love and peace and happiness and joy and unity and environmental all of the good stuff you know?” Marley said.
FR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CaribPR.com (press release)
Hailed by Time ut as “a real thrillthe band is tight the clothes are right it’s a sure-fire smash hit” THE HARDER THEY CME features a cast of 16 Jamaican-born performers and tells the story of young singer Ivanhoe Martin (played by Rolan Bell) as he arrives in Kingston Jamaica with dreams of becoming a reggae star. A corrupt and drug-fueled music industry drives him into a fast and furious life as Jamaica’s most-wanted outlaw and most-celebrated underground star. Reggae music star and pioneer Jimmy Cliff starred in the ’70s film of the same title which catapulted the island’s signature sound into a globally recognized and respected genre turning Jimmy Cliff and reggae music in general into an international sensation. “With top-class acting singing and dancing [this] superb production faithfully distils not just the movie’s music and characters but also somehow its soul” (The Standard). “The Harder They Come made music history introducing the world and the United States in particular to reggae music. Miami in the summer of 2009 will be long remembered as the epicenter of cultural history as we host the U.
Tooting Toots’ horn
New Times SL
; all-ages; $10 presale or $12 at the door). According to their bio “Revolution reggae music—edgy raw natural roots. They are Rootz Underground. That is their sound. ”n Tuesday Aug. 4 check out Wade Bowen (7:30 p.
Reggae star offers his prescription for healing
Toronto Star
Jason Miller Staff Reporter Roy "Gramps" Morgan hopes his debut solo album 2 Sides of My Heart Vol. 1 will be the healing that reggae music needs. At a time when the once-vibrant reggae scene has stagnated with a shortage of young talent to pick up the mantle his experience musical sensibility and socially conscious lyrics are building a buzz for his first solo album. Morgan known simply as Gramps to his fans said he was trying to be "the Barack bama of reggae" in an attempt "to bring back hope and change to the music. ""What I was trying to accomplish on the album is healing" he said in a phone interview from Kingston Jamaica. "Someone can listen to a track on the album and be healed.
Music festival to rock Rib Mountain
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
The bands set to perform are TSA a Kronenwetter-based up-and-coming pop band; Natty Nation a reggae group from Madison; and Blueheels a rock and alt-country band from Madison. If successful this year’s fest will be just a sneak peek of what organizers hope will become a multi-day festival called Why Not Wausau? attracting dozens of local and nationally recognized indie rock bands. Flapjack Creative owner Gerald Mortensen who grew up in the Wausau area and recently moved back said one of his goals in opening the agency in downtown Wausau is to “brand the region itself. “The landmark of Rib Mountain offers a setting similar to some of the best musical festivals in Colorado and featuring indie rock bands will set it apart from other festivals in the region he said. Mortensen wants to attract young professionals to Wausau and “open their eyes to the potential of the area” he said.
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