Mayor Bloomberg visited Jamaica yesterday, taking a turn on the steel drums and charming locals by adopting their phrase “One Love. “You don’t know how lucky you are,” he told Jamaican elected ...
When you think of Louisville's music scene, reggae music may not come to mind. But for the past 27 years, steel drums ring the alarm for the start of summer at the Kentucky Reggae Festival. Ibuka ...
GRAND HAVEN, MI – Steel drum music resonated through the Loutit District Library in Grand Haven on Thursday, Aug. 15, as a local band kicked off Jamaican Day. Steel Doin’ It performed in the morning ...
Sitting in front of Crown Candy Kitchen, a man with dreadlocks dangling beneath a straw hat stuffs cotton into an old pair of pantyhose. It’s just after 10 a.m., and the streets are still. The only ...
In preparation for my first visit to the Caribbean, I tried to brush up on the history of places I’d visit, and gain some understanding of their contemporary cultures and societies. In Puerto Rico, my ...