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In This Issue
* Reggae Festivals This Week
* Groovin’ Kingston 12 Box Set Makes Its Debut Worldwide: Reasoning With Danny Sims
* Cooking Tip From The Caribbean Cove: Tuna with a twist
* Fun & Games: What's Patois for "see you later?"
* Reggae Festival Guide News & Offerings: Reggae on the River Tickets Sold Out
* Marketing Tidbit: Email Etiquette - Create a Signature
* About Reggae Festival E-Guide and Contact Us
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Reggae Festivals This Week
Festival listings are believed to be correct. Please
contact the promoter directly for more information.
Friday-Saturday, July 9-10, 2004
Reggae Festival of Wales
Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
www.reggaewales.com
Hotline: TBA
Friday-Sunday (3 Days), July 9-10-11, 2004
2nd Rastavibe Festival
Asprovalta, Greece
www.rastavibe.gr
Hotline: 0030 6936757408
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Vibes Energy Fest '04
Harlem, NYC, New York, U.S.
Hotline: 212-283-2103
Saturday-Sunday, July 10-11, 2004
Miss Afro Caribbean UK 2004
London, UK
Hotline: 02072495676
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Caribbean Seabreeze Festival
Long Beach, CA, U.S.
www.seabreezefest.com
Hotline: 323-731-2927
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Groovin’ Kingston 12 Box Set Makes Its Debut Worldwide
Reasoning With Danny Sims
By Justine Ketola
Bob Marley and The Wailers, just the name alone conjures
up images of boundless inspiration, rebellion and tragedy.
The Marley catalog outsells more than any other artist in
the world. Countless bootleg versions of this prolific
fruit have flooded the global marketplace during the twenty-
three years since Marley’s untimely death.
Danny Sims, a pop music producer and impresario made a
publishing deal with the late Marley that covered the
publisher’s royalty share for each record or song sold.
As a an African American producer and business impresario
during the turbulent ‘60’s, Sims came under scrutiny for
music that was determined powerful to foment the energy
behind the uprisings of the Civil Rights Movement. Sims
moved to Jamaica, met Bob Marley and began recording some
211 songs with The Wailers.
In an effort to combat the intense bootlegging worldwide of
some of the most sought-after music from the past 25 years,
Sims has inked a 10-year licensing deal to assemble and re-
issue tracks to be released in box sets that will enjoy the
international distribution muscle of the Universal Music
Group, the world’s largest distributor.
The new box set GROOVIN’ KINGSTON 12 features dub
versions, guest appearances, and new tracks of music with The
Wailers Band. Some of these tracks including "Music Gonna Teach,"
"One Love True Love" and the Peter Tosh version of "Little
Green Apples" are released on CD for the first time. Other
classics like "Redder Than Red" and versions of "Trenchtown
Rock", with a refrain that gives the box set its title are
timeless gems. Below is an excerpt from an interview with
Danny Sims. The full article can be found at:
http://www.jahworks.org/dannysims.htm
Justine Ketola: How did the GROOVIN’KINGSTON 12 project
come about?
Danny Sims: The album was put together by Universal with
Jeremy Collingwood who has worked with Universal internationally
(from London) for the past five years. When this deal came up
between JAD Records and Universal, they asked me if Jeremy could
interview me for the liner notes. That was two years ago, the
deal took two years to get signed.
Justine Ketola: How did you get your start in the music business?
Danny Sims: Johnny Nash was an American artist, he actually
brought me into the business. I was in the restaurant business
in New York. I had a restaurant in Times Square, Sapphire’s
on West 47th Street in the Theatre District. I had all the
big show people coming in my restaurant. And that was the
first Black restaurant in Times Square. I sold soul food.
We were open 24 hours and Johnny Nash, Sidney Poitier,
(Harry) Belafonte and Ossie Davis, all of the entertainers, it
was an entertainer hangout and Johnny Nash used to be one of my
customers, he was about 15 years old. He was on the ‘Arthur
Godfrey Show’. He was a huge artists at ABC/Paramount. He
came to me for management, we went partners and we started
doing concerts in the Caribbean.
Justine Ketola: Why did you move to Jamaica?
Danny Sims: Johnny Nash was a pop singer. But the first R&B
record that I ever got him to do was called "Move and Groove".
That record became #1 in the R&B market and a guy named
Magnificent Donahue a DJ from New York moved to LA and we
are going to do a commercial with the track and we are going
to put it on every station in the country. And do you know what
they put on the commercial? They put ‘burn baby burn’ and
this record was #1 in Chicago and Watts and so the FBI called
me and said ‘Danny we finally got you, you are out of your
mind, they are burning down Watts, they are burning down the
cities.’ We got on a plane and went to Jamaica, we moved to
Jamaica. I didn’t even know Bob Marley then, we had a
distributor at Federal Records.
Justine Ketola: It has been reported that you went down there
for cheaper production costs.
Danny Sims: We went down there because we thought we
were going to get killed by the CIA and the FBI. For ‘inciting
a riot’ they called it. Detroit went down, Chicago went
down, L.A. went down, the country just went up in flames
and we were right in the midst of that. Jamaica was a place
to get away from the shooting.
For more information on Bob Marley, Danny Sims, Island Reggae and
Hip-O Records check out bobmarley.com, jadrecords.com,
islandrecords.com, and hip-o.com.
Justine Ketola is a freelance writer, booking agent, publicist and sales
representative. Her writing has appeared in The Beat Magazine, Ujama News,
The Reggae Festival Guide, Carib Press and Jahworks.org. Her client roster includes
Abijah, Sugar Black, Boom Shaka, Mongoose, Zema, Detour Posse, and Reggae
Rock featuring Garth Dennis. She handles street and radio promotion for a wide
variety of clients. Justine has been an ad sales representative for The Reggae
Festival Guide for the past three years and the Blues Festival Guide since its
inception. To contact her directly about marketing your product or for bookings,
please call 323-259-3039 or email: zionboundmediacomcast.net.
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Cooking Tip from the Caribbean Cove
Tuna with a Twist (c)
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Spice up tuna salad sandwiches by adding a dash or two of jerk
paste to the mixture. Let sit 30 minutes before serving on English
muffins for breakfast, or on bread for a sandwhich.
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Fun & Games
What's Patois for "see you later?"
"More Time"
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News: Reggae on the River Tickets Sold Out
June 29, 2004-The Mateel Community Center Inc. and People
Productions announced today that the 21st annual Reggae on
the River festival tickets are sold out. All online sales
are finished. The promoters ask patrons, please do not mail
any more mail order ticket orders. There are still a very
limited number of tickets available at local outlets: Wild
Horse Records in Garberville, The Works in Eureka and in
Arcata at the Works and the Metro.
In a year that has been extremely challenging for the concert
industry, Reggae on the River has again sold out in advance
of the festival. The promoters would like to thank all of
the ticket buyers for their continued support of Reggae on
the River noting, "We look forward to joining together in
the spirit of Respect, Love and Unity."
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Marketing Your Reggae Biz Tidbit
Email Etiquette - Create a Signature
By Kristine Cummins
Most email software programs allow you to create a
signature which automatically appears at the bottom of your
email when you create a new message. The signature should
include your name, title, business name and best method of
contact such as phone and email address. The signature can
also include your fax number, web address, slogan or tag
line. You could also include an offer that you are promoting
for your business at the very end. To hyperlink your email
address type the < symbol, then : and at the end type
the less than sign >. Same goes for the web address except
for :.
See next week's Reggae Festival E-Guide
#8 of 10 Email Etiquette Reminders.
--Kristine is the Webmaster of www.ReggaeFestivalGuide.com.
She specializes in custom, affordable, fast downloading Websites
for small businesses. Call for quote 415-213-1914.
www.KristineCummins.com
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