ROCKSTEADY: Now Available for Booking!
11/06/09 12:40 Filed in: Rocksteady
NOW AVAILABLE: July 2009!
Bob Marley began his career in the Rocksteady eras as a singer & songwriter. Emerging from the ghettos of Kingston, he became the Third World’s first international superstar.
“Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae” brings together the last of the great singers and musicians of Jamaica’s Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. Forty years after the Rocksteady era, they gather to record and album of greatest hits, to perform at a reunion concert and to tell their story.
A musical romp through the artists’ memories and stories of the 1960s social scene in Jamaica. The film features a mix of recording sessions at Tuff Gong Studios, archival footage from the period and interviews with the performers at home or at places on the island that had profound effects on their music and lives.
Featured singers include Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, Dawn Penn, Hopeton Lewis, Streager Cole, Derrick Morgan, Ken Boothe, Leroy Sibbles and U-Roy. Among the musicians are Ernest Ranglin, Sly Dunbar, Jackie Jackson, Gladstone Anderson, Hux Brown and Scully Simms. A featured guest is Rita Marley.
These Rocksteady greats helped develop the buoyant rhythms, prominent base pulse, soulful vocals and socially conscious lyrics that gave Reggae its power.
Bookings & Print Traffic: Mike Boyuk
Publicity: Sandra Chwialkowska
“Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae” brings together the last of the great singers and musicians of Jamaica’s Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. Forty years after the Rocksteady era, they gather to record and album of greatest hits, to perform at a reunion concert and to tell their story.
A musical romp through the artists’ memories and stories of the 1960s social scene in Jamaica. The film features a mix of recording sessions at Tuff Gong Studios, archival footage from the period and interviews with the performers at home or at places on the island that had profound effects on their music and lives.
Featured singers include Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, Dawn Penn, Hopeton Lewis, Streager Cole, Derrick Morgan, Ken Boothe, Leroy Sibbles and U-Roy. Among the musicians are Ernest Ranglin, Sly Dunbar, Jackie Jackson, Gladstone Anderson, Hux Brown and Scully Simms. A featured guest is Rita Marley.
These Rocksteady greats helped develop the buoyant rhythms, prominent base pulse, soulful vocals and socially conscious lyrics that gave Reggae its power.
Bookings & Print Traffic: Mike Boyuk
Publicity: Sandra Chwialkowska