From: First Avenue & 7th Street Entry San Francisco has the Fillmore Auditorium. New York has the Knitting Factory. Minneapolis has First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry. Anyone who knows about music in this town will tell you that, for the last four decades, First Avenue has been integral to the Twin Cities’ vibrant music scene. From the avant garde […]

From: KAZI 88.7 Austin Interview with Selector Ron Selector Ron interviews Taj Weekes for his show “Reggae Rockers” on KAZI 88.7 FM Austin. Catch Selector Ron every other Tuesday from 7:00 – 10:00pm as he presents his mix of “Lovers Rock, Roots and Culture, and nuff niceness!” KAZI 88.7 is the oldest community station in Austin. The station […]

FlipSwitch PR FlipSwitchPR is now representing Taj Weekes & Adowa. FlipSwitchPR.com is a new concept in music publicity built to match the new music economy. With over a decade of experience in the music publicity field (including placements in Rolling Stone, Spin, Pitchfork, Paste, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]