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POETRY IN MOTION 2017, FEBRUARY 26, TO DONATE TO CHARITIES!
Dub poet Yasus Afari in performance at a previous staging of Poetry in Motion.Delahayes Photos– THE 14th staging of spoken word festival, Poetry in Motion (PiM) is scheduled for Manchester Golf Club on Brumalia Road, Mandeville, on Sunday, February 26. Showtime is slated for a 6:00 pm start. According to organizer Yasus Afari, part proceeds of the event will be going to a number of Manchester-based educational institutions and charitable organisations. “From the inception, PiM has demonstrated social responsibility, entrepreneurship, ‘com-unity’, nation building and artistic integrity. Hence, we use the arts as a medium for social intervention, renewal and transformation. We also support worthy charities,” Yasus Afari told the Jamaica Observer. The organizations to benefit include Church Teachers’ College, Porus Primary School, Friends in Need Charity Organisation and Thrift Shop, and the Gilbert and … Read entire article »
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GARNET SILK AND HIS FAITH IN RASTAFARI!
By Howard Campbell— Garnet Silk—- IF there was one thing Garnet Silk never tired of talking, it was Rastafari. His commitment to the faith was the focus of his lifestyle and music. Silk was introduced to Rastafarian movement by Yasus Afari, a dub poet from St Elizabeth, in the late 1980s. Back then, he (Silk) was a fledgling entertainer from Manchester known as Little Bimbo. “Yasus Afari teach Garnet an’ Tony Rebel ’bout the teachings of Rasta. He’s the one who came up with the name Christian Souljahs,” said Aaron Silk, Garnet Silk’s younger brother. “It was Yasus the dub poet, Rebel the deejay and Garnet the singer.” Aaron told the Sunday Observer last week that his brother’s career started as a deejay on Manchester sound systems like Destiny Outanational. Typical of the 1980s, some … Read entire article »
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REVISITING GARNET SILK’S LEGACY, TWENTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH!
SILK… was part of a roots renaissance in the 1990s that also included his close friends Afari, deejay Tony Rebel and singer Everton Blender– IN exactly one month, it will be 20 years since the death of roots-reggae singer Garnet Silk. He and his mother died in an explosion at her Manchester home on December 9, 1994. To mark the milestone, the Jamaica Observer will revisit the influential vocalist’s achievements in a brief, but remarkable career which got off the ground in 1992 with his cover of Johnny Nash’s I Can See Clearly Now (done with dub poet Yasus Afari). Since his death at age 28, a number of compilation albums have been released. Most showcase the hit songs he recorded for various producers including Courtney Cole, Steely and Clevie, Donovan Germain, Bobby … Read entire article »
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BRITISH-BASED DUB POET LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, TO RECEIVE JAMAICA’S NATIONAL AWARD!
By Howard Campbell– Linton “Kwesi” Johnson– IN 1970s Britain, the sounds of Marley, Burning Spear and Linton Kwesi Johnson were the soundtrack for militant black youth protesting racism in that country. On October 20, Johnson will receive the Order of Distinction for his contribution to the development of Jamaican music. The OD, Jamaica’s fifth highest civic honor, will be awarded during the annual National Honours and Awards ceremony at King’s House. Johnson was born in Clarendon but moved to Britain as an 11-year-old in 1963. Widespread racism and social indifference toward blacks inspired his recordings in the early 1970s, which many musicologists cite as the genesis of dub poetry. Some of Johnson’s most potent work such as Five Nights of Bleeding (For Leroy Harris), Doun De Road, Song of Blood and It Dread Inna Ingland (For … Read entire article »
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YASUS AFARI LAUNCHES HIS NEW ALBUM – “ANCIENT FUTURE”
Yasus Afari—- By Mel Cooke—- As he gave those gathered inside Bookophilia, Hope Road, St Andrew, on Monday evening a run-through of Ancient Future (a ‘taste and buy’, as it was humorously put), Yasus Afari put the title and content of his seventh studio album in historical context. He said that “one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is to unlearn the falsehood”. And, in creating the ancient future, the ideal method is to “marry the very best of our ancient traditions with … Read entire article »
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