Gig Calendar
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May 6, 2008 – Palm
Beach, Florida
Another Successful SunFest!
Steel Pulse and Stephen Marley Draw Huge Audiences at Palm Beach Fest
By M. Peggy Quattro
Photos Lynn Dearing
Another picture perfect weekend for a picture perfect
festival. Founded in 1982, SunFest, Florida's
largest waterfront music and art festival, is held the first of every May and
attracts more than 275,000 visitors annually.
The ever-popular 5-day Fest stretches for nearly a mile, tucked between
the beautiful Intracoastal Waterway and the architecturally beautiful downtown West Palm Beach.
Read more...
April 27, 2008 – Miami,
Florida
Miami’s
6th Annual Trans-Atlantic Festival Rocks!
Jamaica’s
Rootz Underground and France’s
Babylon Circus
Deliver High-Energy Roots Ska Reggae
By M. Peggy Quattro
Photos Lynn Dearing
The award-winning 20-year-old Rhythm Foundation once again
presented the best in music from genres not normally visited in South Florida.
Known for showcasing music from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean,
and Europe, the Rhythm Foundation and Heineken
delivered a knockout show at the oceanfront North Beach Band Shell on Sat.,
April 26, 2008. The vintage deco
amphitheater was over-flowing with the type of jubilant and gyrating fan every
promoter and band hopes to entertain. Read more...
April 25, 2008 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Freddie McGregor and John Holt Sell-Out Performance
Backed by the New
York Symphony Reggae Strings and We the People Band
By M. Peggy Quattro
Photos Dreamy Riley
 What promised to be an elegant evening of Reggae classics
and Reggae strings turned out to be even more than that! The beautiful Broward Center
of the Performing Arts was soon filled – from the main floor and mezzanine, to
the balcony and boxes – with dedicated fans as excitement and anticipation
filled the air. Read more...
April 23, 2008 – Miami,
Florida
South Florida Sends Cedella Marley Booker Home:
A Loving Tribute in Word, Song, and Dance
By M. Peggy Quattro
One week following Mother B’s journey to Zion,
hundreds in the South Florida community joined hands and hearts at a memorial
service inside the beautiful Garden House at Fairchild
Tropical Garden
in Miami. The lush botanical garden is only minutes from Ms.
B’s home, a large residence on a sprawling estate. In the late ‘70s, son Bob Marley bought the
home in Pincecrest for her, and it is where Ms. B lived a life surrounded by
her children, grand and great-grandchildren, and the home where, on April 8, she
passed on in her sleep, surrounded by her loving family.
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THE OFFICIAL DUTCH DANCEHALL CHART 2-18-08
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Shoot Out
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Mykal Roze
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John John
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Nah Go a Jail Again
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Jam 2
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Fallen Soldiers
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Demarco
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Star Kutt
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On the Rock
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Movado
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Baby G
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Study People
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Serani
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Fire Links
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What I'm Gonna Do
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Daseca |
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Click My Finger |
Erup
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Truck Back Records
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Hustle
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Junior X
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Not For Sale |
Beres Hammond |
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Hussling
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Mr. Evil (Leftside)
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MPQ'S DAILY UPDATES
April 2 - GREETINGS!
HEY THERE FANS... Where is this year going? The new site has been up for a little over three months and the response is tremendous! Thank you to all the fans who check us for news and reviews, photos and videos. We want to continue to grow, so please use the "Tell a Friend" link in the lower right column to help us spread the word. If you are a writer and would like to contribute a review or a CD review, then send me an email at the link below.
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Share your thoughts, tell us who you would like to see "Backstage" and we will do our best to deliver. We are working every day on new ideas and ways to deliver a world a'Reggae news. Stay tuned!
In my daily updates, I will drop the latest news and gossip. With so much happening in the Reggae world, this is the first place you will need to come for entertainment news and industry information.
Take a few minutes to explore our Events Calendar, Yard Report, USA Reggae, World a'Reggae, Industry Spotlight, Hip-Hop, CD reviews, and more. Click GO BACKSTAGE and have a look at the new videos.
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One Love!
- M Peggy Q
Publisher, Reggae Report and ReggaeReport.com
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Mission in Progress
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Get it in Your Mind
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Burning Bushes
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Fight with All Your Might
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Luciano
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Jah is My Navigator
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Half Pint
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No Stress Express
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I Roy
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Heavier than Lead
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King Sounds
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Reggae Anthology: the Sweet Sounds of
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Talk the Truth
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Did U No's
...Jamaican
singer Ce'Cile and reknowned American producer Scott Storch recently
collaborated with Beenie Man on her first single entitled “So Fly” for So Be/Dangerzone Records
...UB40 new lead singer, Duncan Campbell (Ali's brother), will share vocal duties with singer Maxi Priest at live concerts; Duncan
sings seven songs on a new UB40 album.
...Bounty Killer was recently banned from Guyana following gunfire at an April 19 show, this follows having shows canceled in the UK and Germany for his songs, which include lyrics that promote violence on gays.
...The Government of Jamaica
has awarded the late Cedella Marley Booker the Order of Distinction (Commander
Class), Jamaica's fifth-highest civic honor.
...Penthouse Records' owner Donovan Germain announced the split with Dancehall sensation Buju Banton after 18 years.
...Red Stripe beer has withdrawn a title sponsor of this year's Reggae Sumfest in Montego, Bay, Jamaica
...Reggae icon Toots Hibbert kicks off his 40th Anniversary Tour in April in New York and will continue to Europe for the summer before returning to North America.
...Bloodfire Posse (Browne brothers Dalton and Clevie, Paul Blake, Benjie Belnavis, & Skatta Bonnick) will re-unite for one night and perform at Ritchie Stephens' 'Take Me Away' concert, April 27, in the Kingston National Indoor Sports Arena.
...DJ Inferno, namesake of his father, singer Beres Hammond, has been spinning music on Jamaica's Fame FM since 1994 and is looking forward to pursuing music production and management
---Dean Fraser's Canon label is responsible for producing the multi-award winning Tarrus Riley song, "She's Royal."
...Pirate website Audiomaxxx and its pirate leader, responsible for hundreds of thousands of bootleg Reggae CDs, have been busted and arrested in Winnpeg, Manitoba, Canada
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