The last Wailer Reggae artist Bunny Wailer will headline the 2007 Kolohe Festival. It took Bunny Wailer more than three decades to make his Hawaii debut. This weekend, the surviving member of the Wailers returns to Oahu, just 2 1/2 years after performing at the Waikiki Shell. He’ll headline the 2007 Kolohe Festival with Steel [...]

‘Follow Di Arrow’ unites the music It was another successful year for Decky Promotion’s Magnum ‘Follow Di Arrow – Unite The Music’, held last Saturday at the James Bond Beach in Oracabessa, St. Mary, as the event, though missing a few billed acts, still managed to thrill the hundreds who turned out despite the rain. [...]

I don’t dread business Levi Roots has proved you don’t need to be a business whiz to slay the Dragons’ Den millionaires. Viewers of the BBC2 show, which sees business hopefuls pitching for cash backing from rich “dragons”, were stunned when the dreadlocked musician won a £50,000 investment. His pitch had seemed shambolic, kicking off [...]

Ragga Muffins Festival nurtures reggae’s roots “Who likes roots music? Who’s a roots lover?” asked dreadlocked master of ceremonies Spliff Skanking. It was a purely rhetorical question, seeing as how almost every single person in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium was there specifically to hear reggae music of the traditional variety. Nevertheless, the crowd let [...]

Diaspora expressed through film, music – The Brown and White As part of the College of Arts and Science’s project “Diaspora: Re-Imagining Cultural Space,” the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies recently sponsored a film and a musical performance to explore the concept of diaspora. Awake Zion