By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen the “Queen of Reggae” Marcia Griffiths perform live over the past 25 years, in Jamaica and abroad. During that time I’ve also interviewed her a few times, but this last year heard for the first time a story from […]
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Try Jah Love with reggae ambassadors Third World
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Old-school roots reggae may be going the way of vinyl and CDs, displaced by new-school dancehall. But for international audiences raised on Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals, there are few performers out there still carrying the roots-reggae torch. But one of reggae’s […]
The Lion of Africa: Reggae icon Alpha Blondy headlines Montreal jazz fest
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett When Africa’s iconic roots-reggae legend Alpha Blondy returned home to Ivory Coast in 2011, the post-election violence in that country had spread to the political capital, Yamoussoukro, as well as Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, Abidjan, where security forces loyal to incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo were fighting the supporters […]