On Monday, April 3, The City Of Chicago and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced the lineup for the 2023 Chicago Blues Festival, taking place Thursday, June 8 through Sunday, June 11 at Millennium Park.
Alligator Records' own Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials will perform on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion Stage on Sunday, June 11.
Chicago officials released the lineups for three of the major city-sponsored music festivals returning this spring and summer following a two-year, pandemic-driven hiatus.
Tyrone Downie recalled the first time he met Bob Marley. It was 1974 and the Rastafarian singer and his Wailers band had just released their sensational Natty Dread album.
On Tuesday night, The Wailers came to the Ritz Ybor for a soul shaking experience that only a reggae show could offer. The band including original members Aston Barrett Jr.'s, Junior Marvin, Donald Kinsey, and an assortment of members from the famously gifted Barrett family, brought the spirit of Bob Marley to Tampa. As the legend once said, “Keep the wailers together, by doing that you keep me alive through music," and so the wailers did with ethereal takes on world changing records such as “No Woman, No Cry," “Buffalo Soldier," and “Exodus," among many others. With two guitars, two vocalists, a drummer, and a lead singer, The Wailers embodied the essence of Rastafari as they took the audience another step closer to Zion.
The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 41st of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. NOT many people in .