PLANTATION – On Saturday, February 10, 2024, in celebration of Reggae Month, the story of the Caribbean’s most prolific music style can be offered to South Florida in a daring new means. The inaugural historic retrospective and live performance occasion “Reggae Genealogy – The Origins, Evolution and Affect of Jamaican Music”, produced by Island SPACE Caribbean Museum, can be offered within the metropolis of Plantation, Florida. A mix of leisure and training, this occasion will showcase stay performances together with music and dance, archival video parts and up to date narratives for a completely immersive expertise. Reggae Family tree will happen within the northeast car parking zone of the Broward Mall.
Historical past of Jamaican Music
The whole historical past of Jamaican music will discover illustration. Beloved icons who’re not with us, similar to Harry Belafonte, the primary recording artist to promote one million information within the U.S., will converse to the viewers in recorded video.
Residing legends like Mykal Rose of Black Uhuru, the primary reggae band to win a Grammy, will make particular visitor appearances.
Reggae Family tree occasion is offered in partnership with Broward Mall and the Metropolis of Plantation, and made attainable partly by the help of the State of Florida, Division of State, Division of Arts and Tradition, the Florida Council on Arts and Tradition, the Institute of Museum and Library Providers, the Broward County Cultural Division, Grace Meals, Jamaica Vacationer Board, Blue Mahoe Capital, the Seashore Channel, Go to Lauderdale, Solely the Finest Printing and the next funds on the Group Basis of Broward: Judith Cornfeld Fund for the Arts, Helen and Frank Stoykov Charitable Endowment Fund and The Frederick A. DeLuca Basis Broward Group Fund.
Reggae Family tree Showcase
The three-hour showcase will hint the early beginnings of standard Jamaican music, previous to Jamaican independence from Britain in 1962, to the current, bearing on mento, ska, Nyabinghi, rocksteady, lover’s rock, dub, reggae and dancehall. The showcase may even spotlight the affect of Jamaican music on genres similar to hip hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats.
Reggae Family tree Producers
To execute the inaugural staging of Reggae Family tree, Island SPACE has assembled an skilled crew of consultants in reggae music historical past, occasion manufacturing and enterprise. The crew consists of Lloyd Stanbury – one of many founders of Reggae Month and of the primary Jamaican all-reggae radio station, IRIE FM, and Calibe Thompson and David I. Muir – the previous producers of The Style the Islands Expertise culinary pageant, and co-founders of Island SPACE. Different crew members embody authors, documentarians, tv and video producers, radio personalities and choreographers.
Tickets
The gates open at 3 p.m. with showtime at 6 p.m. Pre-sold tickets are $20 or $25 on the gate. Afternoon attendees can take pleasure in restaurant and artisan distributors and excursions of Island SPACE Caribbean Museum contained in the Broward Mall.
Discover tickets, normal, sponsorship, vendor and volunteer data at www.reggaegenealogy.org
