The rockers era, distinguished by the innovation of new musical patterns and vocal styles, evolved in the 1970s and is hailed by some as the Golden Age of reggae music. Rockers was recorded at a turbulent time in Jamaica’s history, fraught with chronic unemployment, rising world oil prices and the dissipation of skilled labour and [...]
Root Cause, organisers of the Seh Sup’m Poetry and Live Music series, has teamed up with Manifesto Jamaica – an NGO devoted to youth empowerment and nation building through art and culture – to introduce a thrilling new concept to the Seh Sup’m audience on August 29. Seh Sup’m: Omega Vibration will fuse photography, poetry [...]
A picture of Empress Menen was on the kick drum and huge images of the late Sandra ‘Sajoya’ Alcott framed the nearly all-female Omega Band (Dale Brown stood in on bass guitar due to the slated player’s illness and Ibo Cooper played keyboard from side stage) during an excellent ‘Womanbition’ on Tuesday night. Celebrating International [...]
Although he is based in Jamaica, musician Sawandi Simon is helping the plight of Brazilian indigenous people through music. Simon said he was contacted by a member of Indigenous Resistance Records, which is located in Brazil, to work on the song, Galdino Pataxo Warrior, that is dedicated to the indigenous people there. He explained that [...]
You don’t need to be conventional to be heard. Art can change a nation’s course. These were the ideas present at ManifestoJA’s bi-weekly event, ART’ical Exposure. Last Friday’s staging of the event at Bookophilia, Hope Road, with the theme ‘Roots Rock’, sought to expose talent ManifestoJA discovered through its community activities. Mixed in with this [...]