Tanya Batson-Savage | Thursday, September 5th, 2013
The 2013 Concert Season for the Jamaican Folk Singers has been dubbed Tribute and Celebration. And that is precisely what they will be doing for their founder the late Dr. Olive Lewin.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Monday, August 26th, 2013
Last year, the Gungo Walk Festival joined Jamaica’s entertainment calendar. Though it reportedly enjoyed a smaller audience than the first installment, the sophomore staging proffered up great energy and diversity as it continues to carve out its niche for alternative music and more.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
When musicologist and folk researcher Dr. Olive Lewin receives her much deserved, albeit posthumous, Order of Merit on Heroes Day 2013, she will become Jamaica’s 11th cultural icon to do so.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Thursday, August 8th, 2013
The August rendition of Seh Sup’m, the Kingston based live music and poetry event, started off with a small audience and big intentions as the live music and poetry event did battle with the mega parties and the need for sun, sea and such that littered Jamaica’s entertainment landscape during th
Tanya Batson-Savage | Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
The Reggae Revival, will be touching down at the 20th staging of Rototom Sunsplash, one of the world’s largest Reggae festivals.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, July 28th, 2013
The cool night breeze settling over Stony Hill, Jamaica, carried with it word and music as guitarist, music entrepreneur and band manager Seretse Small riffed vocally and musically on life music and their intersections.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Michael Sean Harris and a cadre of young musicians tested the acoustic capacity of the Shaare Shalom Synagogue in Downtown Kingston. Sean Harris rich tones and synagogue’s resounding acoustics were a match made in heaven.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Seh Sup’m the Kingston on the Edge edition was a well-balanced offering of music and poetry, providing a decent evening’s fare filled with solid performances. It was a night of reggae and reggae infused poetry epitomized by the night’s final performers Oku Onuora and Kabaka Pyramid.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Friday, June 14th, 2013
"I make music for people who love music," says Courtney John speaking to the small gathering at the SO((u))L HQ in Stony Hill. The musician had been invited to the SO((u))L to talk about his recently released Courtney John Project.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Friday, April 26th, 2013
The Alpha Boys School recently unveiled its new logo, designed by Michael Thompson. The striking image of a young male stridently playing the trombone emerged from the inaugural International Reggae Poster Competition, the brain child of Thompson and Maria Papaefstathiou.
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