International Reggae Day July 1st

Hundreds of thousands revel at Glastonbury, 2022!

The sun was shining at Glastonbury this year and the mud was decidedly absent! Good vibes and musical artistry were running free as 1000s of entertainers gathered and over 200,000 flocked to the world’s biggest green fields festival.

Into this vast party, Greensleeves Hi -Fi took to the Totem stage (located in the Common) representing mighty reggae music. A storming set that featured Oxman on the Mic and Adam Prescott on the decks. Hearing the classics on the first-class sound system boom out over the mystical Somerset countryside as the sun went down and night drew, is an experience not to be missed.  Set to return next year – get that ticket early!

Were you at Glastonbury 2022?

Often described as Reggae’s ‘Dark Prince’, Keith Hudson certainly didn’t play by anyone else’s rules when it came to creating music and ‘Rasta Communication’ is no exception.

It’s a true Roots Reggae masterpiece that still sounds fresh and relevant to this day with its thunderous drums, skeletal rhythms and deeply atmospheric sounds. The album features Jah Shaka favourite ‘Felt We Felt The Strain’ plus the ethereal, hypnotic & haunting ’Bloody Eyes’ – the whole album is not for the faint-hearted, this is pure distilled Roots music.

Recorded at Channel One in Kingston & Chalk Farm Studios in London ‘Rasta Communication’ holds its own amongst the greatest albums of the genre yet is still wholly unique. A Greensleeves classic from the Black Morphologist of Dub.

One of the most requested photographers covering Reggae, Culture and the Caribbean is David I Muir.

His breathtaking photos have been featured by The Jamaica Tourist Board and The Ft. Lauderdale Tourist Board; and his photos of performing artists while on stage have been shared by fans who cannot get enough of his view of music in action.

His coffee table book Pieces of Jamaica (co-authored with Sean Henry will give you a view of Jamaica that instills pride and attracts visitors to love Jamaica as much as we do.

DIM:  I got my start in Reggae Concert photography by leveraging my years as a music selector, artiste manager and sound system owner to gain access to Reggae shows, onstage and backstage with promoters and artistes.

Freddie McGregor is one of reggae’s most durable and soulful singers, with an incredibly steady career that started in the ’60s when he was just seven years old. Since then, he’s spanned nearly every stylistic shift in Jamaican music, from ska and rocksteady to Rastafarian roots reggae to lovers rock (his particular specialty) to dabbling in dancehall, ragga, and dub.

Not just a singer, he wrote some of his own material, and grew into an accomplished producer as well. McGregor’s heyday was the early ’80s, when he released high-quality albums like Big Ship and reached the peak of his popularity in Jamaica and England. However, he remained an active presence on the reggae scene for decades to come, producing for other artists, and sporadically sharing new music of his own with releases like 2013’s Di Captain and 2016’s True to My Roots.

Freddie was nominated at the 45^th annual GRAMMY Awards for his album Anything For You.