I NEVER KNEW TV had the pleasure of learning from one of reggaes great musicians Andy Bassford who toured with Culture, Dennis Brown, Toots and the Maytals, Yellowman, Super Cat, and many more during his long successful career. Please enjoy this history lesson from a man who was their when history was being made.
Energy bills are rising, there’s little opportunity to save money by switching energy provider and the days are getting chillier. But insulating your home will help make it cosier, more energy efficient and cut your heating bill. Watch our video for simple DIY jobs you can do at home to reduce heat loss across four key areas: windows and doors, chimneys, pipes and water tanks, and lofts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BRBl_kxjLA&t=14s Mighty Diamonds member Fitzroy “Bunny” Simpson has died in the same week that the iconic reggae group suffered the loss of Donald “Tabby” Shaw. Simpson died from complications associated with diabetes on Friday (1 April). He was 71. Jamaican culture minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange in a statement posted on Twitter on Saturday (2 April) wrote that it was “devastating” to lose two Mighty Diamonds members in the same week. […]
Reggae music legend Donald “Tabby” Shaw died in a drive-by shooting in Jamaica on 29 March. Reggae group The Mighty Diamonds’ lead vocalist Donald “Tabby” Shaw, 67, has been killed in a drive-by shooting in Jamaica. The shooting, which occurred on McKinley Crescent in St Andrew, Kingston on Tuesday (29 March), left one other person dead and three others injured. Police are investigating whether death related to an ongoing local gang conflict.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyCqmP4dE4M This is a small class project made by Nickele Morgan and a couple of friends which seeks to answer the question; "What does Garvey mean to Rastafari? "What are the ways in which Garveyism is expressed in the cultural and ideological ethos of Rastafari?" Enjoy and Please note that the contents of this project was not fully credited and we do not own the rights to songs used […]
Warning: this report contains distressing images. Harrowing police custody footage was played to an inquest into the death Leon Briggs, a 39-year-old father in 2013. Leon Briggs was suffering serious mental health problems when he was restrained by police in Luton then transported to a police cell by a firearms unit. Channel 4 News applied to the Coroner to release the crucial video which shows the moments leading up to […]
As festival season rapidly rolls in, we’re constantly being reminded of the continuing lack of diversity on our lineups. With a recent study indicating 86 per cent of the lineups of 12 major music festivals last year including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and Creamfields were male, it seems that the ears at the top are still unwilling to break up the boys club that makes up our live music industry. […]
As a bassist, bandleader, teacher, and music copyist, I've worked with hundreds of singers throughout the years. Though working musicians know hundreds of tunes, singers need to have good charts in order to have their music played the way they want. I define a "good chart" as a piece of written music that effectively tells the musicians what they should play. Written music comes in seven basic forms: chord […]
The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing" Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and co-editor and of the off-beat blog Boing Boing, is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. Doctorow and others continue to write prolifically about the apocalyptic changes […]
Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the new challenges. Yet, instead of holing up in her living room to practice until she felt more confident, she did […]
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