One World Ska & Rocksteady Music Festival

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About One World Ska & Rocksteady Music Festival

The Annual One World Ska and Rocksteady Music Festival is an occasion to advance Kingston, the origination of Jamaica's well-known music industry. Another intention is to exhibit Kingston as a social tourism goal. This celebration is focusing on the tremendous fan base of Ska and Rocksteady music sweethearts around the globe. The celebration will be held at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Center on Hope Road, Kingston. The Jamaican capital is the origin of Ska and Rocksteady music, two of the most famous melodic classes played far and wide today and ancestors of reggae. A portion of the main entertainers of these two classifications will show up from 3:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. on the main day.

A symposium on the originators of Jamaican music and two documentaries on the class are planned for day 2. Ska music was first played in 1963 by the Skatalites in the Kingston recording studios and clubs. The class is today played by a huge number of groups in the U.S.A., Europe, Japan, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. It will be the first run through a musical celebration of this kind will be held in the origination of this genre. The celebration will likewise include some rising ska and rocksteady groups: Yard Beat, Earth Cry, and the Alpha School Band, made up of understudies of the school that delivered a large number of Jamaica's extraordinary performers, for example, Dizzy Reece, Harold "Little G" McNair, Joe Harriot, Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, and Rico Rodriguez.

Rocksteady Music Festival is a strategic move of Sounds and Pressure Foundation to position Kingston as a social tourism goal, and we have been chipping away at it presently going three years," said celebration executive Julian "Jingles" Reynolds. "Jamaica is the main nation separated from the United States that has given the world different melodic sorts, for Jamaica's situation, four mainstream classifications, Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, and Dancehall, and we trust this is of extraordinary social incentive as they all have affected world culture.

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