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Stories by Marcia Rowe

Strong turnout for Kingston Book Festival event

Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 8:58 AMMarcia Rowe

When host Mel Cooke announced the start of the inaugural staging of Kingston Book Festival event Late Nite Lit, subtitled 'A Night of Searing Words', at the scheduled 8:54 p.m. last Thursday, he promised the audience a feast of variety. He said...

Oakwood's Aeolians sing at Jamaica College

Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 9:02 AMMarcia Rowe

On Sunday, the United States of America (USA) in general and Alabama in particular celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. In Jamaica, 48 students, the choir conductor and supporting personnel from Oakwood...

Jazz divas deliver in the Garden

Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 12:11 PMMarcia Rowe

Jazz in the Garden returned from its yearlong break on a high note. The show, subtitled Jazz Divas Chapter One, was successful on two fronts, in audience turnout and in the amazing performances by a pool of seven talented female vocalists, backed by...

Sounds of change at Blues on the Green

Published:Sunday | March 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe

On Friday evening, a large audience turned out to experience great music from Grammy-winning United States (US) group Sweet Honey in the Rock and Jamaican performers at Emancipation Park, New Kingston.Some persons also remembered the call for...

Red Bull offers wings to Paris

Published:Monday | February 23, 2015 | 12:26 PMMarcia Rowe

'Red Bull gives you wings' is the energy drink's familiar slogan. For the past 25 years, those wings have not been only metaphorical. Through its Red Bull Music Academy, the company has literally lifted music practitioners to foreign lands for an "...

Saving Alligator High worth the effort

Published:Sunday | February 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe

In his latest script, Saving Alligator High, Patrick Brown focuses on the tragic circumstances which result in a school nearly being closed. Through clearly defined characters played well by the familiar faces of Jambiz Theatre Company, the story is...

Gospel takes the lead in Reggae Month celebrations

Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe

Pulling in the largest turnout to date for the 2015 celebration of Reggae Month, the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA's)-organised Reggae Praise was a success. This was due to Christians and non-Christians alike braving intermittent...

‘Simply Myrna’ set for March 7

Published:Sunday | February 8, 2015 | 3:52 PMMarcia Rowe

Jamaica is the land of reggae, but there is still room for other genres of music to flourish. The Organisers of Simply Myrna: Myrna Hague in Concert has found that room. In it they have managed to successfully showcase the jazz and blues genre. Th...

Lime Comedy Café rocks with laughter

Published:Monday | February 2, 2015 | 12:15 PMMarcia Rowe

‘They Call Me Barrington’ premier gets positive response

Published:Monday | February 2, 2015 | 12:31 PMMarcia Rowe

They Call Me Barrington is the second of Lennie Little-White's trilogy on Jamaican icons in the arts.

Mass melodies of freedom

Published:Monday | January 26, 2015 | 6:08 AMMarcia Rowe

Saturday's highly publicised inaugural Festival of Religious Freedom closed with a high-energy concert.

Hilarity built on tricky plot

Published:Wednesday | January 14, 2015 | 1:17 AMMarcia Rowe

It is not easy to be exhaustingly funny yet hold a straight face throughout a performance, but Oliver Samuels has mastered the art of doi

Backing band goes vocal

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2015 | 5:37 PMMarcia Rowe

Launching a musical career in Jamaica is not as glamorous as it might appear.

Send-off with song

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2015 | 7:10 PMMarcia Rowe

Gospel singer Barbara Elaine Lewis, who died in December from complications associated with leukaemia, was laid to rest on Saturday.

Beres Hammond, Flow’s office party 'click'

Published:Monday | December 22, 2014 | 12:13 AMMarcia Rowe

Living up to its brand name, Flow (Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited), took its annual Christmas party to the grounds of the Univer

Norman Manley Law Students search for 'Justice'

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2014 | 12:13 PMMarcia Rowe

Justice was put on stilts on Sunday.

St Andrew High's Fiesta goes retro

Published:Monday | December 15, 2014 | 11:00 AMMarcia Rowe

Last Saturday, partygoers turned out at the St Andrew High School for Girls Parent-Teacher Association's annual Christmas Fiesta.

A gripping ‘Of Mice and Men’

Published:Monday | December 8, 2014 | 9:49 PMMarcia Rowe

Held at Palace Cineplex, Sovereign Centre, on Sunday, The National Theatre Live (NTL) Broadway debut staging of John Steinbeck's classic,

LTM 2014 Pantomime launch, a teaser

Published:Wednesday | December 3, 2014 | 12:52 PMMarcia Rowe

If you ever wondered what it was like to hang several letters of 'O' on a string, think no more.

An informative Ananse Sound Splash Conference

Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2014 | 10:23 AMMarcia Rowe

"One storyteller is a book, but a host of storytellers is a movement," Amina Blackwood Meeks, organiser of National Storytelling Festival

Timeless satisfies all ages

Published:Monday | December 1, 2014 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe

Company Dance Theatre boast new, remounted works

Published:Wednesday | November 26, 2014 | 10:31 AMMarcia Rowe

It was a performance of perpetual movements.

Costumes, lighting detract from Bricolage

Published:Sunday | November 23, 2014 | 2:21 PMMarcia Rowe

Arabesk Dance Collective's 'Bricolage' was staged at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, University of the West Indies (UWI

Stella Maris Dance Ensemble gives stellar 21st

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2014 | 1:54 PMMarcia Rowe

It is not often that five new works by choreographers on the same dance programme are of high standard.

Variety, nostalgia at Xamayca's 19th

Published:Monday | November 3, 2014 | 12:13 PMMarcia Rowe

Saturday's opening of Dance Theatre Xaymaca's (DTX) 2014 season was more than a dance show.

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