BEFORE THE LEGEND SWEEPSTAKES

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RAGGA MUFFINS FESTIVAL
GET-AWAY WEEKEND
and Dozens of Other Prizes!

In celebration of their new book, Before The Legend - The Rise of Bob Marley by Christopher John Farley, Amistad Books is hosting a fabulous sweepstakes with 180 prizes! Enter today on www.ReggaeFestivalGuide.com. The random-pick drawing will occur on September 16, 2006. The first name chosen will win the Grand Prize upon the winner's qualifications and confirmation. The next 50 names chosen will receive a hardcover copy of the book. The next 30 winners will be sent a one-size-fits-all knit beanie by Livity Outernational and the final 100 people win one of an assortment of irie gifts. (Note: U.S. addresses only.)

When entering the Before the Legend Sweepstakes at www.ReggaeFestivalGuide.com, you'll see a link to our short Reader Survey. All the things we do (website, e-guide and magazine) are provided free. We're entirely supported by advertising, and it's only natural that our advertisers want some info about you, our reader. So if you have an extra minute, click on the Reader Survey and answer a few questions. By doing so, you will double your chances to win!

The Grand Prize includes two VIP backstage passes to Ragga Muffins Festival at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, CA, February 17-18, 2007. The winner will also receive roundtrip airfare for two with ground transportation to and from the airport (from U.S. point of origin), plus a two-night stay at the festival host hotel - the Long Beach Hyatt. If you win, and live less than 200 miles from the Long Beach Airport or LAX, no problem mon! We'll send a car for you and your guest from your home to the hotel and back. Imagine the excitement of mingling with your favorite reggae performers backstage!

Although the lineup for 2007 hasn't been announced yet, each year gets better and better. 2006 included reggae icons such as The Wailers, Gregory Isaacs, The Itals and Freddie McGregor and artists from the current generation like Gentleman, Anthony B, Dezarie, Matisyahu, Richie Spice and Lutan Fyah. This excellent Grand Prize is complements of Moss Jacobs Presents in association with Ragga Muffins Production. Please check website for updates: www.raggamuffinsfestival.com. Transportation is provided by Amistad Books /Harper Collins Publishing.

Fifty lucky people will each win a copy of the new hardcover Bob Marley book, Before The Legend - The Rise of Bob Marley. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the passing of this musical genius, the book goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring you the private side of the reggae superstar few people ever really knew.

Thirty winners will receive knit beanies from Livity Outernational, a one love inspired clothing, hat and luggage company. Check out their full line of products at www.livity.org. One hundred more winners will enjoy a gift from one of our sponsors!...

How to Enter the Sweepstakes
Enter online at www.ReggaeFestivalGuide.com to be eligible for the fabulous Grand Prize package. Double your chances of winning one of the 180 prizes by first completing the Reader Survey online.

You must be a United States citizen and residing in the U.S. and eighteen (18 years of age or older as of January 1, 2007) to be eligible to win a prize.

Reggae Festival Guide 2006, Hot Off The Press

It's that time again! What time is it? That highly anticipated period when Reggae Festival Guide's annual magazine is just about to hit the streets. The E-Guide Editor and Reggae Festival Guide Marketing Director Justine Ketola headed to the Bay Area for the privilege of working with Reggae Festival Guide Editor Kristine Shaff (HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTINE! MAY 30) and Graphic Designer, Doris Kalin on the final stages of the layout and design before ushering the magazine off to the printer. Publisher Kaati (a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HER TOO! May 28) and Justine checked in at Golden Eagle Press in the Reno, Nevada area. Staffed by members of the Piute/Washoe Tribes whose land is adjacent to the printing plant, Golden Eagle churns out 100,000 copies and ships the majority of them to all points in North America. As of E-Guide "press" time, the magazines should be in the binding stage and ready to ship.

Big respect to all of these folks and the rest of the staff including Ad Sales Representatives Amy Shapas and Laura Haykel, Ad Traffic Coordinator, Ed Porawski and all of the editorial contributors for a great issue. Thanks and respect to all of the 2006 advertisers, we wish you all of the success this year can bring. And special thanks to Enrique Candioti of Livity Outernational, (the 2006 RFG sponsor) for the irie cover artwork featuring Lutan Fyah.

Watch for 100% Hemp, Limited Edition Livity Outernational 2006 Reggae Festival Guide T-shirts available in just a few short weeks.

Looking for a magazine? Email kaatireggaefestivalguide.com or justinereggaefestivalguide.com to find out more about the printed guide.
 
 
 
 

UCLA Jazz/Reggae Festival

Yes Festival-Goers! The outdoor festival season is upon us! This week kicked off the summer season with shows around the country for Memorial Day weekend. Reggae Festival Guide was in attendance at one of the nation's biggest and if the sold-out capacity crowd on Reggae Day was any indication, the nation's most successful events this past weekend.

Organized and operated entirely by UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) students, the UCLA Jazz/Reggae Festival is a two-day affair that is one of the largest student-produced events in the U.S. Jazz Day on Sunday featured Dianne Reeves, Floetry, Jack De Johnette and more. Monday's show had some of reggae's hottest newcomers such as Prince Jabba, a Jamaican sing-jay based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Irie Love, a singer based in Hawaii who is one of 12 finalists in the Red Stripe Big Break competition taking place in Jamaica. Tami Chin performed with her band in anticipation of her new release on Universal Records.

Surprise guest Cherine Anderson, the actress from the films Dancehall Queen and One Love graced the stage with a few of her new songs including the track "Good Love" produced by Sly & Robbie. An unusual amount of females prevailed in the lineup as Macka Diamond rounded out the scheduled artists, performing her usual saucy, humorous lyrics with a catchy delivery that has won many fans since her last appearance at the 2005 Sea Breeze Festival in Long Beach. She utilized the Detour Posse band to provide a backbeat to her cutting-edge dancehall style. Southern California has not seen Bushman perform since Ragga Muffins Festival, 2002 in Long Beach. Despite sound difficulties in his monitors, he managed to pull of an amazing set with Detour Posse, the area's lead backing band finished their segment on the UCLA stage.

Dancehall Deejay Assassin was to perform with Buju's band after rehearsing with them in Jamaica. For UCLA Reggae Fest, he had to perform to rhythm tracks but the crowd still gave him a great reception for his first appearance ever in the Southern California area.

Buju Banton and his band were late upon arrival to Los Angeles due to mechanical problems on their flight arriving from Miami. The group's flight arrived just minutes before their set time. Buju and his band performed Sunday 5/28 along with headliner Shabba Ranks, Damian Marley, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Lady Saw, Ce'Cile and more at the Miami Memorial Day Fest at Bi-Centennial Park. Buju gives one of reggae's greatest performances, and although this one was cut short, he still gave the crowd medley and full-length versions of many of his hit songs.

M.C.'s Barbara Barabino and Dread Scott from KDAY 93.5 and the "Get Up Stand Up" Show provided the crowd with details on the day's proceedings as well as news on upcoming events in reggae music.
 
 
 
 

Desmond Dekker Passes On

Ska and Reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker, who was a superstar in Jamaica and had international hit singles several years before the emergence of Bob Marley, died of a heart attack in his London home on May 25.

Born Desmond Dacres in Kingston in 1941, he made the rounds of recording studios and finally hit with producer Leslie Kong. Of his hits in the British charts 1967-75, the biggest was "The Israelites," which came out in 1968 and bubbled under for six months before finally becoming a number one in the U.K. and a top ten hit in the U.S. Kong's sudden death at age 30 left a lot of Jamaican artists bereft, including Dekker and Jimmy Cliff. Dekker relocated to Britain around 1970, and he was heard in the soundtrack of the cult hit Jamaican film The Harder They Come (1972). During the "2-Tone" era in British pop of the late 1970s he made two well-received albums for the Stiff label, Black and Dekker and Compass Point.

Dekker's first hit in Jamaica had been "Honor Your Father And Mother," and he explained in the notes to his 2-CD career retrospective on Trojan in 2005 that his songs had been aimed at the downtrodden, encouraging them not to give up hope. The set was named after one of his biggest hits, "You Can Get It If You Really Want." FolkWax sends its condolences to his many fans around the world.
 
 
 
 

Ingredients:

• 2 small Papayas (papaws) (about 3 inches in diameter)
• Rum raisin ice cream
• caramel
• 4 tablespoons of nutmeg

Directions:

1. Slice Papayas (papaws) in half.
2. Scoop out seeds with a spoon.
3. Place the 4 halves upright in the center of their own desert plates
4. Add a large scope of ice cream in the center of each Papaya (papaw).
5. Pour warm caramel over the Ice Cream & around Papaya (papaw).
6. Dust with nut meg & serve immediately

Serves 4

Brought to you by Jamaicans.com

Our prayers, blessings, and thoughts go out to the families and survivors of those affected by the earthquake in Indonesia this past week. It seems that every time we open the paper, watch the news, or log on to the Internet, we are bombarded with statistics of death and destruction caused by natural disasters. With the recent loss of five thousand people in Indonesia, nearly twenty-one million people have died worldwide because of natural disasters over the last century. While this is a staggering statistic to comprehend, consider that three times as many people have died in wars over this same time period.

As television newscast focus on the latest terrorist activity or the Avian Bird Flu, the most serious of dangers facing humans remain to be disease that has been around for a long time, starvation, and poverty. Nearly seven and a half million people die yearly due to these factors. Sooner or later, these things will affect us all. Unfortunately, these social problems only account for half of deaths to humans.

So, what is the greatest threat to humanity? Statistically, the answer is government. While it is necessary to be aware of the frailty of life on planet Earth, the numbers of people misplaced by natural disasters, disease and starvation pale in comparison to the actual victims of man's inhumanity to man.

This is probably the most disturbing piece of evidence I gathered in the writing of this article. Democide or murder-by-government killed one hundred and seventy-four million people in the last hundred years. This equals from head to toe, humans circling the Earth four times! Meanwhile, the media spends it's time on a Bird Flu that has only killed one hundred-sixty people worldwide.

We truly need to learn to love each other and not tolerate leaders who rule by domination, coercion, and violence. We must strive towards positive cultural and social change. How else will we continue to coexist?

A wonderful organization that actively supports humanity and protests war since 1980 is "Food Not Bombs". Click here for their Current Actions & Events page.

Blessings,
Curt

Passionate for human rights and politics, bourgeoning writer Curt Byrum keeps his readers abreast of current news events. In addition to being a writer, he is a Respiratory Therapist residing in California. Curt also has a passion for music of all genres, writes experimental music and is a poet/lyricist. Reach Curt at curtreggaefestivaleguide.com. Website: www.jamescurtbyrum.com.

Courtesy of Roots Music Report "where only the music matters". This chart reflects the radio airplay spins of some of the most prominent people in the genre, worldwide. Reporters to the chart include over 100 radio stations who are playing reggae; record stores and distributors selling the reggae; clubs booking blues artists; and key music correspondents throughout the world.

For further information about the Roots Music Report, visit www.rootsmusicreport.com
 

Generated on: Thursday 01st of June 2006 01:10:11 AM
TW	LW	Artist:	CD Title:	Label:	Weeks On:	Location:
1	NEW	LUTAN FYAH	PHANTOM WAR	GREENSLEEVES	1	ENGLAND
2	1	MIDNITE	JAH GRID	I GRADE	9	ST CROIX
3	2	JAH CURE	NEVER DIE LIKE A FOOL	DANGER ZONE	9	JAMAICA
4	12	BURNING SPEAR	OUR MUSIC	BURNING MUSIC	9	JAMAICA
5	4	DENNIS BROWN	SUPER REGGAE & SOUL HITS	TROJAN	9	JAMAICA
6	23	JR REID	ONE BLOOD	VP	9
7	NEW	VARIOUS ARTIST	NEW DAY RIDDIM	LUSTRE KINGS	1	CA
8	7	BOB MARLEY & WAILERS	SLOGANS	ISLAND	10	JAMAICA
9	8	FAT FREDDY'S DROP	THE DROP	WANDERING EYE	9	AUSTRALIA
10	19	NATURAL BLACK	BE PATIENT	P G MUSIC	9	JAMAICA
11	3	LUCIANO	JAH WORDS	RAS SANCTUARY	9
12	11	MISTY IN ROOTS	FORWARD	KAZ	9	UK
13	13	YAMI BOLO	MINISTRY	SELF	9
14	6	THE CONGOS & FRIENDS	FISHERMAN STYLE	BLOOD & FIRE	2	JAMAICA
15	NEW	DENNIS BROWN	MONEY IN MY POCKET - THE DIFINITIVE COLLECTION	TROJAN	1
16	NEW	VARIOUS ARTIST	CAPITAL P	VP	1	NY
17	9	SUGAR MINOTT	DANCEHALL BUSINESS	BLACK ROOTS	9	JAMAICA
18	10	BURRO BANTON	RISE AND SHINE	MASSIVE B	9	JAMAICA
19	21	MICHAEL ROSE	BABYLON 9/11	LOVE INJECTION	9	JAMAICA
20	22	LACKSLEY CASTELL	PRINCESS LADY	NEGUS ROOTS	9
21	27	JOSEY WALES	COWBOY STYLE	SELF	9
22	NEW	URBAN TRIBE	BOB´S BAR	ADAM ATTERBY MUSIC	1	SWEDEN
23	NEW	MERCADO NEGRO	AQUECIMENTO GLOBAL	UNIVERSAL	1	PORTUGAL
24	NEW	ANTHONY B	MY HOPE	MINOR7FLAT5	1	GERMANY
25	25	PETER BROOGS	IGZABIHIR YAKAL	KING SHILOH MAJESTIC MUSIC	2	JAMAICA
26	NEW	WINSTON JARRET & THE RIGHTEOUS FLAMES	SURVIVAL IS THE GAME	YOUNG TREE RECORDS	1	JAM
27	NEW	VARIOUS ARTIST	REFLECTIONS	VP	1	NY
28	NEW	BURNING SPEAR	LIVING DUB VOL. 5	BURNING SPEAR	1	JAMAICA
29	NEW	LEE SCRATCH PERRY & THE WHITEBELLYRATS	ALIVE, MORE THAN EVER	DAMP MUSIC	1	JAM/CH
30	20	ANTHONY B	SMOKE FREE	BOGALUSA	9	JAMAICA
31	24	BINGHI GHOST	STREET HITS	STREET SCHOLAR RECORDS	2
32	NEW	KING DJANGO	ROOTS TONIC	JUMP UP RECORDS	1
33	NEW	THE SENIOR ALL STARS	RED LEAF	GROVER RECORDS	1	GERMANY
34	NEW	GROUNDATION	YOUNG TREE	YOUNG TREE RECORDS	1
35	NEW	THE DRASTICS	PREMONITION	JUMP UP RECORDS	1
36	NEW	THE TRAVELLERS	BLACK BLACK MINDS	PRESSURE SOUNDS	1	JAM
37	31	DUB INCORPORATION	DANS LE DÉCOR	PRODUCTION SPECIALES	2	FRANCE
38	NEW	SOLDIERS OF JAH ARMY	DUB IN A TIME OF WAR	INNERLOOP RECORDS	1
39	NEW	SOLDIERS OF JAH ARMY	GET WISER	INNERLOOP RECORDS	1
40	NEW	VARIOUS ARTIST	GALORE	GREENSLEEVES	1	ENGLAND
41	NEW	GROUNDATION	DUB WARS	YOUNG TREE RECORDS	1
42	32	MONTY ALEXANDER WITH ERNEST RANGLIN	ROCKSTEADY	TELARC	3
43	33	ZIGGY MARLEY	DRAGONFLY	RCA	3
44	34	GREGORY ISAACS	MR. ISAACS	BLOOD & FIRE	2	JA
45	35	BEAT PHARMACY	CONSTANT PRESSURE	DEEP SPACE MEDIA	2
46	36	LEROY SMART	DREAD HOT IN AFRICA	MAKASOUND	2
47	37	ABIJAH	SAMPLER	KRUCIAL REGGAE	2
48	38	JR. KELLY	FIVE DESCIPLES- PT4	PENITENTIARY RECORDS	2
49	39	MESSENJAHZ	JOURNEY TO ZION	ONYXION	2
50	40	DILL-IN-JAH & PITT	ORIGINAL SONGS OF	AFRICAN DESCENDANTS	2

The black stands for hardship, the green for both hope and the fertile land, and the gold for wealth and sunshine. The flag's symbolism is "Hardships there are, but the Land is green and the Sun shineth."

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