When legendary musician, Carlton ‘Santa’ Davis was informed that he had been selected to receive the prestigious Reggae Gold Award at the end of February, he was excited, but, alas, he was unable to travel to Jamaica to collect it in person because.
The Musgrave Medal Award ceremony held at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at The University of the West Indies, Mona, last Wednesday represented the passing of the baton, and as Gold recipient Dr Vivian Crawford said, “I feel.
“So yu not telling dem fi tek di white man offa di medal?” That was the spirit, if not the exact words, of the question one of my mischievous friends asked when she heard I’d been awarded a Musgrave medal. Another friend, from a former British.
The annual Peter Tosh Symposium takes place on October 19 at the Multi-Functional Lecture Room on the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies from 5 to 8 p.m. This year’s event, which coincides with the 79th anniversary of Peter Tosh’s.