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Artistes performing include The Skatalites Band (USA), Soweto Ska Band (Spain), Marcia Griffiths (Jamaica), B.B. Seaton and the Gaylads (UK), Sparrow Martin and Skasonic band (Jamaica), Brooklyn Attractors (USA), Leroy Sibbles former lead singer of the Heptones (Jamaica), U-Roy, the King of the Jamaican toasters, Derrick Morgan, the King of Ska music (Jamaica), and Strangejah Cole (Jamaica).
Emerging Bands
Also in performance will be some emerging Ska and Rocksteady bands: Yard Beat, Earth Cry and the Alpha School Band, made up of students of the school that produced many of Jamaica’s great musicians such as Dizzy Reece, Harold ‘Little G’ McNair, Joe Harriot, Tommy McCook, Don Drummond and Rico Rodriguez. Sound System selectors are two leading musicologists, Dexter Campbell ‘the Ska Professor’ and Roy Black of KLAS’ vintage oldies programme –The Saturday Night Alternative.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/e...ocksteady-fest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiQ5jOl3ueI
BROOKKKLLLLLYYYYYNNNNNN!
Emerging Bands
Also in performance will be some emerging Ska and Rocksteady bands: Yard Beat, Earth Cry and the Alpha School Band, made up of students of the school that produced many of Jamaica’s great musicians such as Dizzy Reece, Harold ‘Little G’ McNair, Joe Harriot, Tommy McCook, Don Drummond and Rico Rodriguez. Sound System selectors are two leading musicologists, Dexter Campbell ‘the Ska Professor’ and Roy Black of KLAS’ vintage oldies programme –The Saturday Night Alternative.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/e...ocksteady-fest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiQ5jOl3ueI
BROOKKKLLLLLYYYYYNNNNNN!