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PRISON TIME FOR GANJA, LEADS TO THE BUNNY WAILER CLASSIC “BATTERING DOWN SENTENCE, FIGHTING AGAINST CONVICTIONS!”
By Mel Cooke Bunny Wailer, at the Trench town culture yard, after a march through the Corporate Area in support of the legalization of marijuana. Tomorrow, April 10, is the 70th birthday of Neville ‘Bunny Wailer’ Livingston, OJ. Part of the celebratory activities is the launch of the RASPECT Cause Campaign A Jamaica/South Africa collaboration on ganja rights, for which Bunny Wailer is the ambassador. It is an appropriate time to tell the story of his song Fighting Against Convictions, which Wailer first told to The Sunday Gleaner in May 2010. Bunny Wailer’s Fighting Against Convictions (popularly known as Battering Down Sentence), was written while he was serving an 18-month sentence for marijuana at the Richmond Prison Farm in St Mary and is the second song on his classic 1976 album, Blackheart Man. Bunny Wailer … Read entire article »
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DWAYNE HIBBERT (TOOTS’ GRANDSON) CONTINUES THE MUSICAL LEGACY!
Dwayne Hibbert— BEING grandson of ska/reggae great Toots Hibbert, emerging producer Dwayne Hibbert said he was destined for a career in music. “The starting of my music career was inevitable. Music is in my blood,” the 23-year-old told Jamaica Observer. He is currently promoting his latest project, Bunx Around rhythm. Released in July on his DJ Blizzard Music imprint, the set features acts including Kalado, Harry Toddler, and Kemstsar, featuring Hibbert as Blizzi. According to Hibbert, he’s introducing a new blend of sounds and ideas to the game. “My music is influenced by inspiration, cultures and current events. My style is authentic and speaks to many nations, not just the dancehall and reggae communities throughout the world,” he said. “My grandfather is my main inspiration musically because of the time he takes to make sure his … Read entire article »
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TOOTS HIBBERT TALKS ABOUT HIATUS AND THE MAYTALS U.S. TOUR, IN HIS FIRST INTERVIEW SINCE ONSTAGE ATTACK!
By Patricia Meschino— Toots Hibbert Veteran Jamaican singer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, whose six-decade career was halted in 2013 following an injury at a Virginia music festival, begins his much anticipated return tour of the U.S. on June 15 at Observatory North Park in San Diego, Calif. While performing at Richmond’s Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival on May 18, 2013, Hibbert was hit in the head by an empty glass vodka bottle thrown by a drunken audience member, suffering lacerations to his forehead. The following day Hibbert launched an acoustic tour supporting his Grammy nominated Reggae Got Soul Unplugged on Strawberry Hill (Metropolis) at Long Island’s Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. Two days later, following a series of medical evaluations, he was advised to cancel the … Read entire article »
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TOOTS & THE MAYTALS FOR NEW YORK CITY’S “GROOVIN IN THE PARK” , JUNE 26!
File photo shows Chris Roberts (left), CEO of promoters Groovin Inc, greeting Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals at the Groovin In The Park press launch in 2013 when he was first booked to perform.— REGGAE legend Toots Hibbert is expected to make his live show comeback on June 26 at Groovin In The Park in Queens, New York. Chris Roberts, CEO of promoters Groovin Inc, confirmed Toots’ appearance in an interview with the Jamaica Observer. “Having Toots perform at Groovin 2016 is a big, big deal for us. We are elated and positive we are on to something gigantic,” said Roberts. Toots was originally booked to perform at Groovin In The Park in 2013, but withdrew after sustaining a head injury in May that year at the Dominion River Rock Festival in … Read entire article »
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TOOTS HIBBERT SETTLES LAWSUIT AGAINST ORGANIZERS OF OUTDOOR FESTIVAL!
Reggae band leader Frederick “Toots” Hibbert has settled a lawsuit he filed against the organizers of an outdoor festival in Richmond after he was struck in the head with a vodka bottle in 2013 By The Associated Press— FILE – In this May 17, 2013 file photo, Toots Hibbert, of Toots and the Maytals, performs at The Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala. Hibbert has settled a lawsuit he filed against the organizers of an outdoor festival in Richmond, Va., after he was struck in the head with a vodka bottle in 2013. None of the parties involved would disclose details of the settlement. (Photo by John Davisson/Invision/AP, File)—- RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Reggae band leader Frederick “Toots” Hibbert has settled a lawsuit he filed against the organizers of an outdoor festival in … Read entire article »
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TOOTS TO SAIL WITH “WELCOME TO JAM ROCK REGGAE CRUISE” NOVEMBER 14-19!
By Brian Bonitto— Toots Hibbert— LEGENDARY reggae singer Toots Hibbert and his Maytal band are slated to be among the performers for the Welcome to Jam Rock Reggae Cruise, on November 14 to 19. According to concert tour publication Pollstar, Hibert is booked for six performances. Hibbert had been recuperating from injuries sustained at Dominion Riverrock Festival in the American state of Virginia, in 2013. He was struck on the head with a vodka bottle by a man identified as William Connor Lewis while performing his hit single Country Road. The wound required several stitches at the VCU Medical Center. The drunken fan was arrested and charged by police. Lewis was charged with assault and battery. He served a six-month jail sentence. A US$20 million civil suit was also filed. Efforts to contact the singer were unsuccessful.“No … Read entire article »
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PRODUCER WAYNE “LONESOME” BROWN DONATES TO HOMELESS MAN!
By Kimmo Matthews— Producer Wayne ‘Lonesome’ Brown with a contribution of $10,000 which will go towards 81-year-old Rosalvo Patterson’s medical expenses. Patterson has been living in a crumbling chicken coop in St Catherine for the past five years. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)— MEMBERS of the entertainment fraternity are being urged to join in helping 81-year-old Rosalvo Patterson, who has been living in a crumbling chicken coop in Jericho, St Catherine, for the past five years. Yesterday’s call was made by music producer Wayne ‘Lonesome’ Brown who donated $10,000 towards the ailing Patterson’s medical bills. Patterson’s plight was highlighted by the Jamaica Observer on Thursday. “When I read the story, I was moved and just wanted to use this occasion to donate the first of several planned donations,” Brown told the Observer at his Red Hills Road … Read entire article »
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SKA LEGENDS FEATURED IN AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY!
By Cecelia Campbell-Livingston— Brad Klein—- Brad Klein was born in northern USA, but the music he has embraced almost all his life is ska. For more than 30 years, he has enjoyed a love affair with the Jamaican genre, so much so that, one day, after an interview with Derrick Morgan, he decided to make a documentary about it. “In 2000, I was the host of a ska radio programme at KUOM, a radio station in Minneapolis. At the time, the beautiful film Buena Vista Social Club was very popular and Ken Burns’ Jazz series was about to be released,” he told The Gleaner in an email response. He said, after interviewing Morgan, he looked up at the other disc jockey in the studio and loudly asked, “When is someone going to make a film on the music we … Read entire article »
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REGGAE LEGEND TOOTS HIBBERT, SAYS HE IS “BROKE AND DEPRESSED” AFTER INJURY IN RICHMOND!
BY NED OLIVER—– click to enlargeFrederick “Toots” Hibbert—- Reggae legend Frederick “Toots” Hibbert says he’s destitute and depressed — a “shadow of himself” — after a drunken Richmond man threw a vodka bottle that hit the performer during a concert on Brown’s Island two years ago. Jamaican psychiatrist Winston De La Haye diagnosed Hibbert with major depressive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, according to new legal filings. “He had a downward gaze and his affect became suddenly sad when he reported that for the first time in many years he was experiencing what it feels like to be broke and unable to support his family financially,” the psychiatrist writes. The report is attached to a motion filed last month requesting that Richmond Circuit Court Judge Margaret P. Spencer move up the trial … Read entire article »
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JUDGE RULES STATE FARM INSURANCE NOT LIABLE FOR PAYMENT IN TOOTS HIBBERT’S INJURY SUIT!
Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, leader of the reggae band Toots and the Maytals, was hit in the head with a bottle May 18,2013, during a concert at the Dominion Riverrock festival in Richmond. —- BY FRANK GREEN Richmond Times-Dispatch— A federal judge has ruled that State Farm Fire & Casualty Company has no duty to pay for injuries suffered by a Jamaican reggae performer seriously injured by a bottle at the Dominion Riverrock Festival in Richmond last year. During a performance on May 18, 2013, Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, then 71, was struck in the head by a vodka bottle thrown by William Connor Lewis, then a 19-year-old college student. Hibbert suffered a concussion and a wound requiring staples. Lewis, intoxicated the night he threw the bottle, pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced … Read entire article »
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