Makeda Dread, reggae’s ambassador to San Diego
Makeda Dread, reggae’s ambassador to San Diego
Makeda Dread ?won’t be performing at Monday’s Tribute to the Reggae Legends ?music marathon (formerly the Bob Marley Day Festival) ?at Valley View Casino Center ?(formerly the San Diego Sports Arena). ?But the festival — which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary with a 16-act lineup headlined by Bunny Wailer, ?Don Carlos ?and Horace Andy ?— couldn’t exist without Dread. She befriended Marley in the mid-1970s and helped launch the annual event named after him here in 1981.