Jamaica Gleaner Entertainment
Published: Monday Sunday | January 17, 2010
Jamaica Music Museum - a sample of what can be
Herbie Miller stands near the middle of Jamaica's musical chronology in words, images and artefacts along the side of a partition at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston, and said "I like to call this our 22 yards of Jamaican music history." Read More...
Diane Bish plays for the Ward, Bach, Hayden, hymns, own compositions part of hour-long performance
Diane Bish last performed in Jamaica in 1993 - the same year Warren Woodruff's 'Diane Bish: First Lady of the Organ', was published. Read More...
Curtis Watson sings his thanksgiving
Voice trembling with emotion, Curtis Watson said, "One day after the stroke, I woke up to find I couldn't talk … couldn't sing." Read More...
Bacchanal reveals 'Treasures' on Feb 5
With Bacchanal Jamaica set to start in a few weeks, the organisers have taken the economic conditions into consideration to make the event affordable for patrons.Under the theme 'Treasures', the 10-week season will begin on... Read More...
Aisha Davis gets Asian exposure
It took two calendar days for the Jamaican delegation which Aisha Davis was a part of to reach Singapore. Leaving Jamaica on Sunday, December 7, the team, including Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Olivia Grange and sprinters Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell and Dexter Lee, got to the Asian country on Tuesday morning. Read More...
New year, new hair, renewed focus
Aisha Davis' hair is more up this year than it was in 2009. She snipped her locks, added some colour, and with a new look and renewed outlook she is looking forward to making 2010 better than 2009 was. Read More...
Non-exclusionary approach taken to museum, Dermott Hussey donates entire collection
The last and latest Jamaican music genre in the mini-exhibition on Jamaican music is dancehall. It is written that "perhaps the most controversial and polarising genre of Jamaican music, dancehall, currently dominates the island's musical landscape". Read More...
Shabba returns on VP CD set
Before he signed with a major American record company and became the 'Grammy Kid', Shabba Ranks was king of the Jamaican dancehall circuit and he earned that title by racking up a number of hit songs in the 1980s and early... Read More...
KEEPERS OF THE HERITAGE: Tyshan Wright: maker of traditional Maroon ornaments
One of the biggest ironies of the annual Accompong Town Maroons' celebrations over the last several years is the influx of vendors selling non-traditional and imported wares. This anomaly has been discussed and written about ad nauseam, but there seems to be no end in sight. Read More...
MOVIE REVIEW: Denzel saves the world in 'Book of Eli'
In the future, according to The Book of Eli, we will all dress like we are in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written. Read More...
