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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Guitar great Ernie Ranglin on film</SPAN>
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Monday, February 19, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>All eyes were on the Roots Of Reggae: The Ernest Ranglin Story, a documentary on world-renowned Jamaican guitarist Ernie Ranglin featured last night at the US Embassy's The Blues.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=140 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Guitar maestro Ernie Ranglin</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>And Then Some film series at Red Bones Blues Café Kingston. Ranglin himself was on hand with Brian Jobson, the film's musical producer, to answer questions from the audience.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Roots of Reggae: The Ernest Ranglin Story parallels Ranglin's career with the growth of ska and reggae music around the world. It featured extensive reflections with Ernie Ranglin, and exclusive on screen commentary by music entrepreneur Chris Blackwell as well as musicians Jimmy Cliff, Rico Rodriquez, Perry Henzell, Damian Marley, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, among others.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The film is the first Jamaican feature to be added to the Embassy series, now in its third year. "We have been looking for Jamaican films to include in the series, and I believe we started with a winner," said Glenn Guimond, Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In honour of Black History Month, the Embassy is running the series every Thursday during the month of February. The third film, Lightning In A Bottle was aired on February 15. It documents a gig from February 2003, held at New York's historic Radio City Music Hall, celebrating 100 years of blues music.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The film series are part of the activities planned by the United States Embassy's Office of Public Affairs in support of African American History Month. Other events to take place include a lecture series in association with the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee and a free Blues concert featuring Chicago Blues singer Zora Young as well as Jamaica's own AJ Brown, Dean Fraser and the Maurice Gordon Group. This will be held on Friday, February 23 at the Devon House in Kingston.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>All eyes were on the Roots Of Reggae: The Ernest Ranglin Story, a documentary on world-renowned Jamaican guitarist Ernie Ranglin featured last night at the US Embassy's The Blues.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=140 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Guitar maestro Ernie Ranglin</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>And Then Some film series at Red Bones Blues Café Kingston. Ranglin himself was on hand with Brian Jobson, the film's musical producer, to answer questions from the audience.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Roots of Reggae: The Ernest Ranglin Story parallels Ranglin's career with the growth of ska and reggae music around the world. It featured extensive reflections with Ernie Ranglin, and exclusive on screen commentary by music entrepreneur Chris Blackwell as well as musicians Jimmy Cliff, Rico Rodriquez, Perry Henzell, Damian Marley, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, among others.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The film is the first Jamaican feature to be added to the Embassy series, now in its third year. "We have been looking for Jamaican films to include in the series, and I believe we started with a winner," said Glenn Guimond, Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In honour of Black History Month, the Embassy is running the series every Thursday during the month of February. The third film, Lightning In A Bottle was aired on February 15. It documents a gig from February 2003, held at New York's historic Radio City Music Hall, celebrating 100 years of blues music.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The film series are part of the activities planned by the United States Embassy's Office of Public Affairs in support of African American History Month. Other events to take place include a lecture series in association with the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee and a free Blues concert featuring Chicago Blues singer Zora Young as well as Jamaica's own AJ Brown, Dean Fraser and the Maurice Gordon Group. This will be held on Friday, February 23 at the Devon House in Kingston.
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