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Website. Reggae Festival Guide. Reggae Sunsplash was a reggae music festival held annually in Jamaica from 1978 to 1996, with additional events in 1998 and 2006. The festival expanded to include international tours in 1985 and was revived as a virtual event in 2020.
Rototom Sunsplash. Rototom Sunsplash is a large European reggae festival founded in 1994 in Gaio di Spilimbergo ( Pordenone, Italy), and since 2010 held in Benicàssim, a few miles north of Valencia, Spain. It attracts thousands of fans from all over the world, thanks to a cultural and musical program that lasts for up to ten days.
With the release of his first album Roots and Herbs in 1978, recorded with his band, The Roots and Herbs, Banks pioneered reggae music in the Eastern Caribbean. Following the releases of the album, Where I and I Abide, Bankie became the first performer from Anguilla to appear at Reggae Sunsplash, in 1983 and he appeared again in 1992. [1]
Blue Riddim Band. The Blue Riddim Band was a Kansas City, Missouri -based reggae band and the first US-based group to play at Jamaica's Reggae Sunsplash festival, which they did in August 1982. (6). The recording of the group's 1982 Sunsplash performance was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1986. (2)
This is a list of notable reggae festivals by country. This list may have some overlap with list of jam band music festivals . Reggae festivals may include classic reggae and related or derivative genres such as ska , dancehall , dub , hip hop , ragga , reggae fusion , and drum and bass .
Patrick Anderson. Phanso Wilson. Robbie Peart. Steve Golding. Demar Gayle. Desi Jones. Chalice is a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1980 in Gibraltar Hill, St. Mary. [1] Chalice is probably best known for their performances at the Reggae Sunsplash music festival.
TheMelodyMakers.com. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers were a Jamaican-American reggae family group whose line-up consisted of the children of musicians, Bob Marley and Rita Marley, which includes lead singer Ziggy Marley with Sharon Marley, Cedella Marley, and Stephen Marley. Formed in 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, Ziggy Marley and the Melody ...
Eek-A-Mouse was a regular performer at Reggae Sunsplash, often teaming up with reggae duo Michigan & Smiley. An album of their 1982 performance was released by Sunsplash Records. [6] He performed in Jamaica for the first time in eight years in August 2015 at the Marcus Garvey Festival in Ocho Rios. [7]