The concert started promptly at 7:30 p.m. That would be unusual for most pop music concerts nowadays, but for a reggae concert it was extraordinary. Reggae time, usually adjusted to a Jamaican clock, ...

The annual Reggae Sunsplash has become a rolling goodwill concert tour, promoting the music and good-time feel of Jamaica. The current edition, which made its Connecticut stop at Lake Compounce ...

Tower City Amphitheater is certainly not Montego Bay, Jamaica — the original site of reggae’s first world-famous Sunsplash festival — but the traveling version of the concert and carnival might just ...

When Bob Marley died in 1981, it seemed he took reggae with him. No other artist or group captured the world`s attention in quite the same way, and the music that some partisans predicted would ...

It was a triumphant moment for Carlene Davis, the reggae artist who had sung about freedom all her life, to hear one of her songs played at Yankee Stadium in New York. The occasion meant even more to ...

Reggae Sunsplash, the caravan of Jamaican music greats and celebration of Rastafarian culture that had been scheduled to touch down at Hampton’s Strawberry Banks Thursday, has been altered ...

FOR two decades beginning in 1978, the live home of reggae music was Reggae Sunsplash, a festival that made its mark in Jamaica with a lineup of the genre’s kings, including Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and ...

Ten years after the death of its greatest proponent, the beat of reggae music settles deeper into its groove, becoming an established part of the popular music scene. A number of major reggae ...

DIANE JOBSON ISN’T LIKE ANY lawyer you have ever seen. She’s barefoot, and her feet are callused and dirty. She’s smoking a hand-rolled marijuana cigar. Her brown hair, just going gray, is matted into ...

The Reggae Sunsplash music festival is set for a return next year November. The festival is returning under the ownership of Guardsman Group Ltd. The security company purchased the event and licensed ...

Jamaica's Reggae Sunsplash, the groundbreaking music festival that established the blueprint for reggae festivals around the world, will return in November 2020, following a 14-year absence. By ...