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Newsletter ~ 28th April, 2021

4/28/2021

Tonya P Concert Review

Big Show!!!

Creative, imaginative, visually conscious, audio conscious and they are our peers!!!!

Nuff exclamation marks

Mally Bless, The President, spinning tracks by Canadian artists all night... we have some music! The world heard our sounds well represented by us

No funding by those who are supposed to develop this culture equally. No grants from anyone!

Yet they pulled it off

We for we

Our worth is only defined by us so we create our own voice

Our own space

Our own media

We do NOT need these people to execute our music

Tonya P truly showed out

She has always been an artist that I would tout over the years as a special talent and she dropped it pon de people dem

I have watched the ting multiple times

Canada nah romp wid de ting

Dwayne De Rosario

Dero’s book

A man I consider to be Canada’s greatest football player

One of the sons of Caribbean parentage who ran around on the field with the other children during half time of our games, to achieving international success and accolades

From the humble beginnings of Ontario Housing, to MVP of the North American football league

A community leader dedicating his recent years to programs for inner city youth

A son of reggae music

This is a book which I am sure serves to motivate younger ones as well as adults what it means to dig down and fight to achieve... and rise to the pinnacle of the sport

dwaynederosario.com

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Violence in the music is reflective of the Society's Corruption

4/6/2021

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Reggae Lane, the first roadway in the world, named after reggae music, right here in Toronto, Canada, at Eglinton and Oakwood, respecting a time of reggae culture in Little Jamaica

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Reggae is a global spiritual movement

For most of its lovers, which include so many sub-genres, the messages of love, truth and equality are the foundation blocks for generations of fans

There are parts of the music, especially within the dancehall, that expresses high levels of aggression and violence, which clearly reflects the mood and sentiment of the people and does shed a dark shadow on reggae culture, yet as I stated earlier, it is a REFLECTION of the society

Since the 6th August, 1962, it is my opinion that the Jamaican leadership / government / parliament / prime ministers / politicians have deliberately brought violence to bear on Jamaican citizens

This started with the orchestrated violence on Corral Garden, by the first prime minister, Bustamante, murdering innocent RasTafari in order to go into the camp and raid them of very large sums of money from ganja sales, which RasTafari could not put into Jamaican banks

Bustamante invented this raid to steal RasTafari money and kill innocent Jamaicans

Bustamante is no Jamaican hero to me {one cannot be a Jamaican hero if one murders Jamaicans in my opinion}

The list of offenses by the Jamaican governments are too numerous to mention

Now this current leader is talking about the violence in the music as being the issue behind the violence

Sad

This mascot leader is from a long line of mascots

How is bauxite mining more valuable in Cockpit Country that fresh drinking water?

Why isn’t reggae music monetized to improve the economy of the county now for sixty {60} years?

Why does the leadership act like wardens of a penal colony?

Blessings Baby Cham for speaking up

One artist speaking changes nothing though

I implore humans who love peace, who love Jamaica, the global Jamaican diaspora to ask these questions and many more, from these mascot governments that have been placed in charge of a beautiful culture

Tonya P album release cometh

The Canadian reggae queen, The First Lady, is bringing some blazing tracks and a full virtual performance

Foundation Steppas with "Pendulum" on formats listed

Benjy Myaz asking the most important question, "What's Going On"

A talented Jamaican reggae / jazz performer making his bass talk to the audience

#OneTime

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Newsletter ~ 2nd April, 2021

4/2/2021

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Reggae Lane, the first roadway in the world, named after reggae music, right here in Toronto, Canada, at Eglinton and Oakwood, respecting a time of reggae culture in Little Jamaica

RasTa: A Soul’s Journey, tells the story of the journey of Bob and Rita Marley's granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, to eight (8) countries around the world exploring the roots and evolution of Rastafari

Watch the movie: rasta.streammoretv.com

Join the group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RASTAASOULSJOURNEY

Foundation Steppas, a young reggae band outta Guelph, Ontario, bringing a conscious vibe and energy, following the path of their elders, blazing this new track, "Pendulum" on the formats listed above

Lillian Allen, a foundation artist in the Canadian reggae fraternity, a dub poet extraordinaire, is as lyrically potent today as then

We have the pleasure of one of her poems which we display with her permission:

Revolution from de Beat
Revolution from de drum
Revolution from de beat
Revolution from de heart
Revolution with de feet

De riddim and the heave and the sway of the beat
de rumblings and the tumblings down
to the dreams to the beat. To the impulse to be free
to the life that spring up in the heat          in the heat
in the pounding dance to be free
to bust open a window
crash upon a door
strip the crust of confinement
step truth, through cracks
through the routing rhythms of the musical tracts       tracks

De sound of reggae music came on a wave of patter       patter
of deeply rooted internal chatter          chatter
on wings of riddim and melodies gone free
the bass strum the heart
the bass drum the heart beat
and the Rastaman pound! Bong bong     bong bong
beat them drums mon! Bong bong    bong bong

And de sound all around
and the voice
of impulse crafted into life burning darkness
of light
of days journeying through the night

of riddim pulse wails and dreams
and determination to be free
of sight
of a vision that ignites
of a musical bam-bam fling-down-baps get-up-stand-up jam!
A musical realignment of the planets
a joy and a singing for those on it

Liberation impulse
dig the colonialists’ grave
crunch of the sixties
baton carried through civil rights flames
spirit of the hippies
signify new ways
the Black power five
the right-on jive
women raise banners for their rights
communities organize
and workers struggle for human rights       for human rights

De core of the African self
separated by four hundred years
ties blighted and nipped a    continental divide
and colonialist lies
a sip from the being of the African well
uncorked the primal African self
and woo...oosh woo...oo...oosh the well spring up
and a riddim let loose
and reggae music found us

It was the pulse in the Caribbean that echoed bright
a voice on a beat
squashed determination released
and the wondrous sighs of Black people once again rose high
from a little piece of rock called Jamaica
where Arawak and Carib bones lie
came a breath of resistance
of peace love and liberation
spread worldwide on the wings of its artists and shaman
the bass and drums prance like a winded fire
chenke ckenke chenke chenke of a guitar strum
songs of freedom
of spirit
of love
of redemption

Revolution from de drum
Revolution from de beat
Revolution from de heart
Revolution with de feet
Ah revolution

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