Living Legends
Wailing Souls Launch West Coast Tour
Grammy nominated roots rock reggae duo, the Wailing Souls, will
light up the West Coast this holiday season with their sizzling new Equality
tour. Dubbed "Living Legends" by Reggae Nucleus magazine, co-founders Winston
"Pipe" Matthews and Lloyd "Bread" McDonald are scheduled to embark on
a winter tour in support of their critically acclaimed recent release
Equality on Musicblitz Records. The band will showcase their inspirational
brand of conscious music from Equality and a collection of past hits.
The bands West Coast stops include California, Oregon and Washington,
kicking off November 30th at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, Calif. Here is
the Souls tour itinerary:
11/30/00 Belly Up Tavern
Solana Beach, CA
12/1/00 Paradise Lounge
Grover Beach, CA
12/2/00 Harlow's
Sacramento, CA
12/3/00 Humboldt State Uni. Arcata,
CA
12/4/00 Mulligans
South Lake Tahoe, CA
12/5/00 Sierra Nevada Pizza N Lake
Tahoe, NV
12/6/00 Palookaville
Santa Cruz, CA
12/8/00 Bohemian Backstage Seattle,
WA
12/9/00 Berbati's Pan
Portland, OR
12/10/00 Wild Duck
Eugene, OR
12/14/00 The Coach House
San Juan Capistrano, CA
To promote the tour, Musicblitz Records is making available a free
MP3 download of the albums title track. Interested webmasters can
host the free "e-single" of "Equality" for a limited period of time by
contacting [email protected]. Equality debut single "Don't Say" is
one of the most downloaded MP3s at Musicblitz.com and a video for the
track is accessible via the labels genre-specific website, Reggaeblitrz.com.,
which showcases additional music samples, interview clips and text items
regarding the Souls career. In addition, DMX Music, Inc. the leading digital
radio service, will showcase an interview with the band timed to coincide
with the tour dates. More than 3.9 million homes and 66,000 businesses
on four continents receive DMX Music. The Souls recently spent the past
few months performing at festival dates including Summerfest, Urban Focus,
Oahu Oceanfest, Monterey Bay
Reggaefest and Deadwood Jam with reggae, R&B, rock and hip hop
artists ranging from Buju Banton, Anthony B, Sean Paul, Common and De
La Soul to Little Feat. Don't miss these "Living Legends" as they pass
through your city.
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Buju shines
at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom
Buju shines at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom
Pilfers opened the show with a different kind of reggae flavor called
raggacore, which is a mix between ska, reggae and rock. This group is well
know in the rock world and bring a lot of energy to the stage but their
style was a little too different to most of the fans that are used to the
hard core dancehall.
A band change brought out the Kingston crew band and they slowed the
tempo down a bit with some instrumentals. Entertainers Junior Patrick and
Cane Juice joined in but I over heard a few of the fans getting impatient
saying they came to see Buju. But you know the old saying - "good things
come to those who wait"
While the Shiloh band was on stage getting their sound together, Simon
came on to entertain the crowd a little and called on Buju's long time sparring
partner the one and only - Wayne Wonder. He came on and did a great performance
by singing hits like "Criss pack of boots", and "Are you ready". He made
way for Gargamel, who came dressed to kill in a white shirt, black pants
and suspenders. As things got hot he disposed of the tie and he ripped the
place apart with new and old tunes like "Cry no more", "Destiny", "Hill and
valleys", "Deportee", "Browning", "Mighty dread". He took a minute to reason
with the audience saying, "isn't the message in the music true. And what
do you want to hear me tell me people. Me is a warrior and me write a little
song whea cause a lot a controversy it called bum bye bye". He had the ballroom
jumping up and waving their flags but wasn't finished as yet. He invited
Morgan Heritage to perform the "23rd psalm" and Wayne Wonder a few minutes
later for "Super star". He gave a stellar performance and it shows that Buju
still can buss dancehall and have the fans eating out his hands.
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Reggae Sumfest
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The meat of this years Sumfest kicked off with the traditional
Thursday night Dancehall night. Highlights were Lexxus' fireworks enhanced
stageshow, an exceptional performance from Bounty Killer, and a red- hot
performance by Capleton which marked the anniversary of his official re
"buss" that happened last year at Sumfest. Friday was the first of 3 International
nights.
Beres Hammond crooned the audience as usual to be followed by Wycleff
Jean and his Refugee Sound System, still riding high after a memorable
performance at Fully Loaded the week before. Luciano then took the crowd
into yet another direction as he had the audience singing along with his
spiritual classics into daybreak. Beenie Man
Beenie Man closed the night, and, as usual, "done the place",
proving that not only is he apt to headline dancehall night, but be the
ultimate headliner in International Night if place there as well. The third
night had performances by the legendary Skattalites, Steele Pulse and R&B
sensation Joe. The night was closed out with reggae's musical family Morgan
Heritage.. Sumfest closed on the Sunday night with Tanto Metro, Sean Paul
and Lady Saw, all giving notable, above average performances to a packed
house. Rapper Jay Z did his thing and was well received by an audience who
is usually TOUGH on rappers, proving that he is officially accepted in
yard. The festival aptly closed with Shaggy who is the model example of
reggae artist who gone-ah- lead internationally. Sumfest this year definitely
had something for
everyone.
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