From: Hamptons Guest of a Guest By Anna Lombardi With 190 shows, over 75 different bands and roughly 30 different restaurants/venues in four days; this weekend the 2nd annual Montauk Music Festival got us started on our final countdown to summer. The festival began at Gurney’s Thursday (May 12th) with the opening party… after that singer/songwriters from all […]
More Artists Announced for the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival 2011
From: DubAndReggae.com The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival is pleased to announce that Vusi Mahlasela, Brigadier Jerry, The Cables, Duane Stephenson, Saritah and Jah Love Sound System have been added to the ever-growing list of artists performing at the festival’s 18th annual gathering taking place June 17-19 at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds located in Boonville, California. These artists […]
Taj Weekes & Adowa Live at St. Lucia Jazz Festival 2011
Taj Weekes & Adowa’s opening song, Angry Language, from their award-winning album ‘Deidem‘ on Jatta Records, live at the 20th Anniversary of the St. Lucia Jazz Festival 2011. View more Videos.
2nd Annual Montauk Music Festival Features Taj Weekes & Adowa
From: The Montauk Sun Taj Weekes & Adowa Perform at the 2nd Annual Montauk Music Festival Award-winning St. Lucian artist Taj Weekes and his band Adowa unite a vibrant diversity of sound with sturdy roots rhythms and lush, thoughtful arrangements. Weekes’ fresh, hard-edged lyrics reveal an innate sophistication that yields to the intimacy of poetry, producing songs that don’t […]
Taj Weekes Reconnects
From: St. Lucia Mirror By David Vitalis ON message and on stage personality, the comparison to Bob Marley is striking — head-holding meditational postures, inter-twined with vigorous dreadlock-shaking convulsions and hop-dances. To St. Lucian artiste, Taj Weekes, the similarities are strictly coincidental, although he indirectly admits that meaningful music demands a certain unity of stage expression. […]
Taj Weekes & Adowa Perform at the Dark ‘n Stormy Benefit for Hudson River Community Sailing
From: Gilt City By Madeline Garber, Gilt City Editor New York is a harbor city—but it’s not often that city kids can pursue after-school activities on the water. Hudson River Community Sailing is trying to change that. This organization develops leadership in underserved youth through maritime education and recreation, helping urban youngsters get their “sea legs.” Next week, […]
The Backyard Restaurant At Sole East Hosts Montauk Music Festival Performances
From: Hamptons.com Friday, May 13 – Sunday, May 15 The Backyard Restaurant at Sole East serves as a venue for the second-annual Montauk Music Festival. On Friday, May 13, start your summer early and stop in to see Chris Merritt’s “Piano Rock” from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., followed by the pop rock of One Love from 9:15 p.m. to […]
St. Lucia Jazz Hook-up National Artistes with Toronto Artistes
From: St. Lucia Jazz Festival By John Emmanuel A visit to Saint Lucia in February of this year by Toronto based West Indian educator, producer and radio host, Alex Waithe continues to bear fruit. In March Waithe featured Saint Lucia on his Toronto-based radio show “Kaiso Rising” which airs every Saturday morning 9-10am on CHRY 105.5FM and Rogers […]
Saint Lucia Jazz 20 Launches “Gold Pass” For Weekend Shows
From: One Caribbean With the countdown on to the staging of Saint Lucia Jazz, the Saint Lucia Tourist Board marks the 20th anniversary milestone with still another exclusive festival package – the GOLD PASS. Where the Premium Package targets the corporate segment in respect of the two Jazz nights at Gaiety on Rodney Bay, the new GOLD PASS is […]
Early Indicators Say St. Lucia Jazz 2011 Expectations Have Been Met
From: Caribbean Festivals Based on previous records and some new milestones set for this year, the Saint Lucia Tourist Board (SLTB) has rated the 20th anniversary hosting of the Annual Jazz Festival very highly. Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Senator Allen Chastanet ticked off as significant, the increasing strides towards an almost 100% local coordination of the […]