Independence and other festivals

**Bizzy** · 07-22-2010, 01:31 PM

Re: Independence and other festivals

i dunno who de heck a Shurwayne is but i like his body...

and de likkle redkin dred under him

**SistahD** · 07-22-2010, 01:33 PM

Re: Independence and other festivals

CALGARYYYYYY!!

<span style="font-size: 14pt">CALGARY REGGAE FEST</span>

Date: Saturday, August 21
Time: 11:00 am – 11:00 pm (Gates close at 9:30 pm)
Location: Shaw Millennium Park – 1220 – 9 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta

<span style="font-size: 11pt">Featuring: Beres Hammond, Culture featuring Kenyatta Hill, Elaine 'Lil'Bit' Shepherd, Explosion Band, Inner Circle, Lenya Wilks, Mandy Woods, Mello G and the Fyah Flames Band, Nesbeth, Progress, Strugglah, Tony Anthony, Ultimate Crew</span>

**SistahD** · 07-24-2010, 01:03 PM

Yellowman

<span style="font-size: 11pt">Kilimanjaro Entertainment presents <span style="font-weight: bold">YELLOWMAN</span>, the original king of dancehall, live and direct from Jamaica & <span style="font-weight: bold">INNOCENT</span>, the African Bob Marley, at the <span style="font-weight: bold">CABOOZE- SUNDAY JULY 25</span>. Roots Reggae & Dancehall mash to the max. Get your tickets now to avoid disappointment at</span> http://www.theaftermidnightgroup.com...ellowman061410

<span style="font-size: 11pt"> 917 CEDAR AVE SO MINNEAPOLIS, MN</span>

**SistahD** · 07-24-2010, 01:23 PM

Montreal August 6-8

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Press Release
7th Annual Montreal International Reggae Festival Back At Quays of the Old Port</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 11pt">Bunny Wailer Headlines</span>

Montreal, May 31, 2010: The Montreal International Reggae Festival (MIRF) returns to the Quays of The Old Port with a slate of renowned artists who carry on the legacy of Caribbean music. Original Wailers member, Bunny Wailer, makes his long awaited Montreal appearance at this seventh staging of what has become a tradition for Reggae music supporters from around the world. Having harnessed the usual best in the business of Reggae, the festival rolls out at a new time frame: August 6, 7 and 8, 2010.

“This year we have created a sense of lasting legacy by showcasing internationally respected Caribbean musicians, whose music continues to bring people from all walks of life together,” says MIRF President, Eric Blagrove. By ushering festival goers into the realm of a ‘Caribbean Coalition’ of top instrumentalists and stellar vocalists, Blagrove and the MIRF team will uphold their commitment to presenting an artistic platform of excellence.

Fusing Reggae with Calypso and Soca rhythms, MIRF’s opening night will be a celebration of Caribbean music. Confirmed artists for “Caribbean Night” include: Jamaica’s Byron Lee’s Dragonnaires, whose recent golden anniversary brought light to a custom of them literally bringing Caribbean music around the world; including annual stints at Montreal’s former Edgewater Hotel. Becket, also referred to as the ‘ABC’ of Calypso/Soca, will share the opening night stage. He boasts an illustrious career, spanning some 30 years, with 21 albums and numerous award winning singles – including the popular hit, “Teaser”. The legacy will be further highlighted with performances from Pluto – a former original Dragonnaires who branched off to pursue a successful solo career.

Dubbed “Dancehall Night”, the festival’s Saturday night will see an eclectic gathering of all time favorites. Reggae rappers bringing this innovative art-form to the MIRF this year include Lady Saw, the first female dancehall deejay to win a Grammy, which she did with No Doubt for “Underneath it All” –Best Performance by a Duo or Group. Her unique blends of advocatory and raunchy lyrics have over the years earned her the coveted title of Dancehall Matriarch.

Lyrically adept, Baby Sham, whose internationally acclaimed collaborations with Rihanna and Alicia Keys have included the hits, “Boom Boom” and “Ghetto Story” will join other first rate deejays like, Mr. Vegas Sustain and Little John.

Bunny Wailer who, along with Peter Tosh and Bob Marley, was a major player in initiating what is now a global fascination for the “up beat one drop” sound of Reggae music, will bring his wise words and astounding rhythms to the final night of MIRF. This “Vintage Night” will also feature Reggae music heavyweights, Leroy Gibbons, Frankie Paul, Peter Tosh’s son Tosh1 and ‘Tony Gits.

DATE: August 6, 7 & 8, 2010 TIME: Friday: 4:00pm; Saturday & Sunday: 1:00pm

http://www.montrealreggaefest.com/site/index.html

FRIDAY AUGUST 6TH TO SUNDAY AUGUST 8TH

<span style="font-size: 14pt">At the QUAYS OF THE OLD PORT OF MONTREAL
Don't miss the 7th annual MONTREAL REGGAE FESTIVAL</span>

Friday .:CARIBBEAN NIGHT:.
...Starts: 4pm
Ends: 11pm

Saturday .: DANCEHALL NIGHT:.
Starts:12pm
Ends: 11pm

Sunday .:VINTAGE NIGHT:.
Starts: 12pm
Ends: 11pm

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Friday August 6 festuring Beckett, Byron Lee's Dragonnaires, Pluto Shervington and much more...

Saturday August 7 Little John, Mr Vegas and Lady Saw... plus many others

Sunday August 8 Tosh 1, Tony Gits, Frankie Paul, Leroy Gibbons and Bunny Wailer</span>

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<span style="font-size: 17pt"> MORE INFO HERE
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**SistahD** · 07-24-2010, 01:43 PM

Re: Independence and other festivals

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bizi_Oh_Em_Gee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i dunno who de heck a Shurwayne is but i like his body...

and de likkle redkin dred under him </div></div>

Humble myspace page

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**SistahD** · 07-26-2010, 11:32 AM

Jambana - meet Usain Bolt's parents

V.I.P.s at JAMBANA™

The JAMBANA™ festival celebrates the tastes and sounds of the Caribbean and beyond. JAMBANA™ has grown to become one of the largest 'Fun For The Family' events in Ontario.

Next Monday August 2nd 2010, JAMBANA™ launches with non-stop fun for 8 ½ hours of quality entertainment from 1-9:30PM inside Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall Road.

Presented by Air Jamaica and Digicel, and produced by Jones & Jones Productions Ltd., <span style="font-weight: bold">JAMBANA™ welcomes the parents of the fastest man on the planet, Jennifer and Wellesley Bolt</span>. Usain Bolt's mom and dad, V.I.P.'s in their own right, will be on site for a special presentation to the Jamaican Consulate General in Toronto and the Jamaica High Commission in Ottawa, are just 2 of the many special guests in the V.I.P. Village.

This year's lineup overflows with talent from the Caribbean icon Byron Lee's Dragonaires to Toronto's upcoming singing sensation Ammoye.

Reggae, Soca, Jazz, and Gospel are just some of the sounds you'll hear from the main stage throughout the day. While comedians Trixx and Sabu Grant will have you laughing until your "belly bust!"

Travelling through the dancehall, with a taste of lover's rock, and the consciousness of roots and culture, Admiral Bailey, Blessed, Steele, Kim Davis, Carl Henry III, and Friendlyness and the Human Rights compliment the uplifting sounds of Kay Morris and Inspector Lenny. Patrons will also dance through the ages with a Decades of Dance that showcases some of the Caribbean's most popular dances from the 60's to the present day.

The Craft Village offers a place to shop for unique trinkets, while the Food Village offers a variety of food for your taste buds; from jerk chicken to roasted corn and everything in between there is something for carnivores and vegetarians alike. No one goes hungry at JAMBANA™.

Children 7 and under are FREE and the Children's Village is equipped with rides, face painting and balloon artists for hours of fun! Admission is only $5 in advance, $7 at the gate with part of the proceeds going towards the building of double unit homes in Haiti with Friends For the Poor, Canada and hospitals and schools in the parish of Portland, Jamaica via the Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation.

This year, JAMBANA™ also reinstates the popular all-inclusive V.I.P. Village where, for only $20, patrons are provided with a seat, complimentary meal and beverage. With 7 Villages to discover, tons of giveaways, and some of the tastiest treats in the city, JAMBANA™ is affordable fun for the family!

Gates open at 11AM

visit www.jambana.com

**SistahD** · 07-28-2010, 12:31 PM

Re: Independence and other festivals

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Jamaica Day Toronto Saturday AUGUST 21 </span>

More JAMAICA DAY INFO HERE

**SistahD** · 07-28-2010, 01:01 PM

Caribbean Film festival -Toronto

<span style="font-size: 14pt">The CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival at Harbourfront’s Island Soul brings the best of Caribbean cinema to Toronto during Caribana weekend </span>Toronto

The CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival has become a not-to-be-missed event on the Toronto City’s summer calendar. Now in its fifth year, the Festival is partnering with Harbourfront Centre’s Island Soul Festival to present some of the best Caribbean films made in recent years for audiences seeking another kind of entertainment over the Caribana weekend.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Tanya Mullings</span>

Queens of Our Music: On <span style="font-weight: bold">Sunday, August 1st, 2010</span>, from 3 pm to 7 pm, the CaribbeanTales Film Festival presents an extraordinary and entertaining line-up of films called Queens of our Music – in celebration of Caribbean and Caribbean-Canadian Divas who have rocked the mic from Toronto to Havana, and back.

The afternoon kicks off with Music Is My life, an intimate portrait of the Canadian-born singer Tanya Mullings who has won the hearts of fans all across Canada and the Caribbean. The daughter of the late great Jamaican reggae music producer Karl Mullings, the film reflects on her art and on the influence of her famous father.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Macomere Fifi</span>

Next up, at 3:35 pm, AKA Macomere Fifi charts the evolution of the award-winning Calypso Queen. Previously known as Tara Woods, she rose from being a church chorister in her home island of Tobago to becoming the formidable award-winning and much loved monarch on Canada’s male-dominated Calypso scene

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Saidah Baba Talibah </span>

At 4 pm, Stepping Out, directed by Mars Horodyski, features Toronto-based singer Saidah Baba Talibah. The daughter of legendary Canadian jazz singer Salome Bey and the equally respected Kittitian music producer Howard Matthews, she is veritable Canadian music royalty. Her extraordinary talent has allowed her to carve her own niche in this competitive contemporary market.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">D'bi Young </span>

At 4:25 pm, Blood directed and produced by Cayman-based filmmaker Judy Singh features popular Canadian-Jamaican dub poet D'bi Young, with performances by the Cuban female Hip Hop Group Las Krudas. The film is part extraordinary music video (shot on locations around Havana, Cuba) and part entertaining after-dinner

Dbi.young.anitafrika
conversation between D’bi and her friends.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Miss Lou-Then and Now </span>

At 5:10 pm there will be a special presentation of Miss Lou-Then and Now, featuring the one and only Jamaican icon, Louise Bennett. Miss Lou was the country's leading author, poet, and comedienne. She pioneered “Jamaica language” and took it to an artistic level that reflected the truth and essence of Jamaican life. The film captures private moments during the last year of her life when she shared her thoughts with her good friend, famous Jamaican actor Leonie Forbes.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Queens of Sound - A Herstory of Reggae and Dancehall</span>

Sunday afternoon will climax with a special screening of Queens of Sound - A Herstory of Reggae and Dancehall, directed by Austrian filmmaker Sandra Krampelhuber. This is the first feature-length documentary to explore the long-neglected female side of reggae and dancehall music in Jamaica. The film follows three generations of women in the Jamaican music business as they recount their struggles for acceptance as well as their successes.

<span style="font-size: 11pt">Artists featured include Marcia Griffiths, Tanya Stephens, Sasha, Cecile, Chevelle Franklyn, Queen Ifrica, Macka Diamond and Lady Gene</span>.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Tasha Rosez </span>

At 6:50 pm, the screening will be followed by an in-person Talk-Back session with special guest Tasha Rosez - the reggae DJ, who will provide some insight into the issue of women in the music business.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Tribes by Ras Kassa </span>

TRIBES by Ras Kassa: At 7:30 pm, Sunday evening’s presentation will be the Toronto premiere of Tribes, a brand new drama directed by Jamaica’s hottest music video director Ras Kassa (Welcome to Jamrock, The Mission). Set in Trinidad and Tobago, Tribes takes viewers on a rollercoaster of love and life. It is the gripping story of Jamal, an undefeated stick-fighter and popular radio DJ, who finds that an unexpected twist in his personal life threatens to destroy everything.

<span style="font-size: 11pt">Fresh New Voices and Visions in Caribbean Film and Television: </span>

On Monday, August 2nd, 2010, from 2:30pm to 5pm, CaribbeanTales presents Fresh New Voices and Visions in Caribbean Film and Television, featuring several Canadian premieres.

Directions, winner of the Best Short Film/People&#700;s Choice Award at the 2008 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival satirizes the endearing and frustrating phenomenon of Trinidadians and their ability to give directions. The film pokes fun at the idea that when one asks a Trini for directions he’ll send you on a roundabout route guaranteed to get you hopelessly lost. In this short documentary a number of persons are asked to give directions to a well-known Port of Spain landmark with hilarious results.

Jimmel Daniel - Power of The Vagina

At 2:45 pm there will be the Canadian premiere of Trinidadian filmmaker Jimmel Daniel’s explosive short film The Power of the Vagina that takes audiences through a hilarious and entertaining look at sexual politics in Trinidad and Tobago.

Next up, at 3:10 pm, Trapped in an Elevator directed by Barbados’ highly talented filmmaker/producer Rommel Hall is a completely delightful Bajan musical opera featuring an ensemble cast.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Mutabaruka -Simply Muta</span>

Simply Muta: Finally the evening’s highlight, at 3:30 pm will be with the international premiere of CVM's hit television show Simply Muta. This entertaining tv show stars the militant Rastafari poet/philosopher, Mutabaruka as host. The brutally frank 'barefoot Rasta', is one of Jamaica's best loved performers, and the program unapologetically gives voice to his unconventional opinions on a wide range of topics relevant to Jamaicans and the world.

<span style="font-size: 17pt">source and more info here </span>

**Bizzy** · 07-28-2010, 03:15 PM

Re: Caribbean Film festival -Toronto

kaka, shi can sing ?! <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistahD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Tanya Mullings</span>

Queens of Our Music: On <span style="font-weight: bold">Sunday, August 1st, 2010</span>, from 3 pm to 7 pm, the CaribbeanTales Film Festival presents an extraordinary and entertaining line-up of films called Queens of our Music – in celebration of Caribbean and Caribbean-Canadian Divas who have rocked the mic from Toronto to Havana, and back.

The afternoon kicks off with Music Is My life, an intimate portrait of the Canadian-born singer Tanya Mullings who has won the hearts of fans all across Canada and the Caribbean. The daughter of the late great Jamaican reggae music producer Karl Mullings, the film reflects on her art and on the influence of her famous father.

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**SistahD** · 07-29-2010, 02:44 AM

Re: Caribbean Film festival -Toronto

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bizi_Oh_Em_Gee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">kaka, shi can sing ?! [quote=SistahD]

The one described below - for sure can sing!!

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<span style="font-size: 14pt">Tanya Mullings</span>

Queens of Our Music: On <span style="font-weight: bold">Sunday, August 1st, 2010</span>, from 3 pm to 7 pm, the CaribbeanTales Film Festival presents an extraordinary and entertaining line-up of films called Queens of our Music – in celebration of Caribbean and Caribbean-Canadian Divas who have rocked the mic from Toronto to Havana, and back.

The afternoon kicks off with Music Is My life, an intimate portrait of the Canadian-born singer Tanya Mullings who has won the hearts of fans all across Canada and the Caribbean. The daughter of the late great Jamaican reggae music producer Karl Mullings, the film reflects on her art and on the influence of her famous father.

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**evanovitch** · 07-29-2010, 08:01 PM

Pepper how come u no move dis yet...mi been waiting

in vain fi see it move like how u did move mine bout Beres tour

**Bizzy** · 07-30-2010, 09:25 AM

Re: Caribbean Film festival -Toronto

LOL> Mi was a confuse har wid smaddy else

**SistahD** · 07-30-2010, 02:41 PM

Re: Caribbean Film festival -Toronto

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bizi_Oh_Em_Gee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">LOL> Mi was a confuse har wid smaddy else </div></div>

If it the one I am thinking of... I believe they have met and are not related.

**SistahD** · 07-30-2010, 02:51 PM

Toronto Independence Gala

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Saturday August 7 </span>

Jamaican Canadian Association info here

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Sunday August 8 </span>

Independence and other festivals

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