ReggaeFest jams again
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ReggaeFest jams again
Akron Beacon Journal
The newest generation of Jamaican artists will be heavily represented with up-and-coming singers Tarrus Riley Duane Stephenson and Lenya Wilks. Each night of the festival will include a popular veteran artist. n Friday 50 years of reggae music will take the stage with the Rastafarian group Culture featuring Kenyatta Hill son of original lead singer Joseph Hill who died in 2006. The evening’s headliner will be Beres Hammond one of the most popular purveyors of ”lover’s rock” a smooth style of reggae that focuses on matters of the heart. Hammond may not be a household name to the casual fan but among the dedicated his hits including Tempted to Touch and his easily recognizable aching tenor have made him a longtime favorite particularly among female fans. The lover’s rock legends will continue on Saturday with headliner Freddie McGregor another veteran singer whose career began when he was 7 in the early 1960s. McGregor’s career has thrived through many reggae styles from reggae precursors ska and rocksteady through the 1970 Rastafarian roots movement lover’s rock dub and dance hall.
Sustaining a community; Reggae festival vendors serve meals save …
Redwood Times
Ryce estimated that Skyfish Elementary School receives about $14000 or $15000 from working the annual festival on the banks of the Eel River money that helps support the school’s music program. And Skyfish Elementary has plenty of company as many of the summer festival’s two dozen food booths help a variety of local and regional nonprofit organizations do everything from protect watersheds to preserve languages. With the sounds of reggae music pulsing in the background Crystal Richardson spent Sunday morning selling Indian Tacos but — if you ask her — she was doing much more than that. Richardson said her booth was raising funds for the Advocates of Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS) a nonprofit organization working to preserve native languages through a variety of programs. ”We find young people in the community and pair them with elder native speakers” Richardson said adding that AICLS also provides financial assistance to people looking to study native languages hoping to preserve as many of California’s “endangered” languages as possible. But Richardson said she also knows that many languages have been lost with the passing of tribal elders and said AICLS works with linguistics experts to study and hopefully bring back some of the languages and some of the cultures that were lost along with them. ”These languages are falling through the cracks” Richardson said.
Fiesta Brings the Rock Funk Reggae Latin …
The Santa Barbara Independent
From the Fiesta-sanctioned mercados to one-off events and State Street venues downtown is going to be brimming with live tunes throughout this the 85th annual ld Spanish Days Festival. And your biggest task music lover is just to know where to be and when. Last night at the Mercado de la Guerra S.
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