Western Bureau: The 2012 staging of Western Consciousness is more than a month away but promoter Worrell King is already grinning from ear to ear as he has landed one of reggae's premier acts, the dazzling crooner Beres Hammond....
Two homes, two countries 1.When they took off nearly 10 years ago, the wife told friends she would never return to the Rock. Unfortunately for her, her darling husband was reading from a different script.
"Fantastic!" was the epithet used by Mary, a well-known piano teacher, to describe Sunday's recital by the Cole/Robertson trio at the University Chapel, Mona. Of the playing by the Jamaica-born pianist, Jon Robertson, Mary declared: "He has the best finger work...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Dr Seuss' The Lorax raked in all kinds of green, earning US$70.7 million in its first weekend, to score the biggest box-office debut of the year by far.The 3-D animated family film from Universal Pictures, featuring the voices of Danny...
There is an old saying that age is just a number and reggae singer-musician Neville George Copper, aka 'Eminent', is determined to prove that saying to be true. The 63-year-old singer, who hails from the Tel-Aviv area in Kingston, has long aspired...
Seventeen smiling females, each wearing a white mask, were introduced to the audience at the Spanish Court Hotel on Saturday night. Clad in colourful bikinis with either silver or black heels, the women strutted their stuff on the runway...
Before The Sunday Gleaner follows Horace Andy, the singer who hit huge with Skylarking in the early 1970s, to the roof of the premises at the corner of Bond and Charles Street, he gives a warning.
Mystery, intrigue, charm and, how can we forget, the women, will all be main features of the new James Bond Film, Skyfall, scheduled for worldwide release in November.
Filmmaker Barbara Blake Hannah gave a public lecture on the topic, 'Harder and Betta: Fifty Years of Jamaican Cinema', last Friday at the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1) at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus.
One of the significant features of early Jamaican popular music was the prevalence of singing duos, which consisted mainly of two sets: the male/female combination, and the all-male combination.
The 10th staging of the Best Dressed Fun in the Son Gospel Festival will be held on Saturday, July 14, at the National Heroes Park, National Heroes Circle.
Monday marked the first in the series of Bacchanal Jamaica's calendar staple, Socacise, at the new Mas Camp located at Stadium North in St Andrew.From 6 to 8 p.m., the dedicated, diehard and fit-conscious rolled into the venue to sweat and dance to the...
Still riding high on the momentum of an ultra-successful 2012 T&T carnival season and on the back of its Bacchanal Fridays performance last night, Caribbean music act Kes The Band, will electrify the Big Apple with its signature 'Island Pop' sound.
WESTERN BUREAU: Have you ever been given a buzzer on a visit to Red Lobster in the United States? Well, the buzzer has made its way to Jamaica, arriving in fine style and showcasing its First-World...
This year marks the debut of Heat, put on by Olivia Thompson. According to Thompson, the event will be about celebrating life and enjoying good music. "This event is my birthday celebration, but it will not be the typical birthday party...
Violinist extraordinaire Jessica Yap will be hosting her first fund-raising concert for The Jessica Yap Pass It On Scholarship Foundation.The event will be hosted at the University of the West Indies Chapel in Mona on Sunday at 5 p.m., and the contribution is $2,000....
Costa Rica: The 2012 instalment of 'Carnival Puntarenas,' the third of the three 'major' festivals of the season in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, proved to be another spectacular affair for the more than 40,000 music lovers who converged for the beachside...
Where's the senator? 1. Eyebrows are being raised and more questions being asked within the party and out, about the continuing delay in naming the last senator....
WESTERN BUREAU:Member of Parliament (MP) for Central St James, Lloyd B.Smith, is aggressively pursuing a plan to develop the city of Montego Bay as the cultural arts mecca of the region.
