Long before the Rolling Stones played the Belly Up, internationally famous musicians started popping up at the Solana Beach music showcase in the early ’80s. One of the first was bassist Fully ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

Live bands. Soulful music. Substantive lyrics. I could be describing the Jamaican music scene circa 1976, the heyday of Bob Marley. But I'm talking about a sound that dominated at this year's Reggae ...

‘REGGAE Roots’, a three-day event featuring Jamaican singer Jah’Mila Smith and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, starts tomorrow at Southam Hall in Ottawa. Jah’Mila, who is based in ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...

If you travel through Africa and speak with musicians, you'll encounter various accounts of reggae's African origins. Perhaps only hip-hop boasts more claims of primal ownership on the continent.

"Who likes roots music? Who's a roots lover?" asked dreadlocked master of ceremonies Spliff Skanking. It was a purely rhetorical question, seeing as how almost every single person in the Bill Graham ...

It’s hard to believe, but as recently as a few years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find venues in Kingston where you could hear live roots reggae. That’s all changed, due to an undeniable ...