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Find out more about the jazz festival here..
The 20th Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival is being staged by the Sonny Bradshaw Foundation, Myrna Hague being one of three directors, as its major fund-raising event. The intention is to raise money to support young musicians, preferably trumpeters, who are serious about their craft. Both the foundation and the 2010 staging of the festival will be launched on April 28. Read more..
Sonny Bradshaw: "dean" of Jamaican music
From Times Online, October 16, 2009
Sonny Bradshaw deserved fully the names “dean of Jamaican music” and the “musician’s musician” by which he was widely known. Although he is associated mainly with the trumpet, Bradshaw also played the piano, clarinet, trombone and saxophone, and was a noted composer, arranger, producer, radio broadcaster and music journalist, creator of commercials and a teacher. He was awarded his country’s Order of Distinction for his contribution to Jamaican music. Read more..
Rex Nettleford - Guardian of our crossroads
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | February 10, 2010
The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston high school in 1968, around the time of the Rodney uprising, to speak to our sixth form about black power. I don't remember what he said, because I didn't understand it. Read more..
Icon lost - Golding, Simpson Miller mourn Nettleford
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | February 3, 2010
Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated his 77th birthday. Read more..
RIP REX - Cultural icon Prof Nettleford dies in US
Jamaica Observer
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
PROFESSOR Rex Nettleford, one of Jamaica's brightest sons and a cultural icon, died in the George Washington University Intensive Care Unit last night, six days after he collapsed in his hotel room in Washington and four hours before his 77th birthday. Read more..
Albert Huie is dead
Jamaica Observer
Monday, February 01, 2010
JAMAICAN master painter Albert Huie died in Baltimore, Maryland yesterday after a long illness. He was 89. Read more..
Jamaica Music Museum - a sample of what can be
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | January 17, 2010
Herbie Miller stands near the middle of Jamaica's musical chronology in words, images and artefacts along the side of a partition at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston, and said "I like to call this our 22 yards of Jamaican music history." Read more..
Non-exclusionary approach taken to museum, Dermott Hussey donates entire collection
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | January 17, 2010
The last and latest Jamaican music genre in the mini-exhibition on Jamaican music is dancehall. It is written that "perhaps the most controversial and polarising genre of Jamaican music, dancehall, currently dominates the island's musical landscape". Read more..
The Story of George Stiebel, Jamaica's first black millionaire
There was every indication at a very early stage that George Stiebel was destined to lead an intriguing life. Read more..
Portland's love story
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Saturday | November 14, 2009
Patrice Wymore Flynn has two great loves: her late husband, the actor Errol Flynn, and her adopted home, Portland. Read more..
A little walk down Jamaica's Memory Lane (5MB .pdf)
Caribbean/West Indian Youth Club
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Frances-Anne Solomon’s dramatic feature film A Winter Tale, starring the legendary Leonie Forbes, heads to theatres in Jamaica
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