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The Philharmonic Orchestra of Jamaica (POJ) will be staging the eighth season of its annual Spring Concert run from May 17-19 at the University Chapel, UWI Mona. Featuring some of the country’s leading instrumentalists, there will be solo...

8th Community Band Season opens with support from Sean Paul Foundation

AMONG THE capacity audience were some members of previous People’s National Party (PNP) governments. They were there to support former PNP Cabinet Secretary Carlton Davis at the launch of his book, My Life, at King’s House in St Andrew on the...

Michael Smith’s ‘Mi Cyaan Believe It’ is one of the most critically acclaimed dub poetry collections to ever come out of the UK.

Your essential guide to the upcoming season in classical and choral offerings in the Washington, D.C area.

The financial need of students at the School of Music at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, receives focus this Saturday, July 15, as local and international faculty stage the benefit recital The Chords That Unite Us, with...

Local and international faculty at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts will take to the stage today for a benefit recital The Chords That Unite Us. Proceeds of the event wil...

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Michael Reckord (Jamaica Gleaner) reports on the Marley Symphony, which premiered at The University Chapel, Mona (Kingston, Jamaica). What happens when Christian meets Rastafarian? For decades in Jamaica there was hostility, violence and even death. But when Jon Williams, a committed Christian and…

On May 11, the St Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival continued it themed nights with the aptly titled Pure Jazz featuring Uruguayan pianist Gustavo Casenave and St Lucian saxophonist and Caribbean jazz icon Luther François. Held at the 400-seat Ramp at Rodney Bay, a purpose built fabric building that facilitates jazz in an intimate space

A SEA of patrons flowed into the Vera Moody Auditorium on the grounds of the Edna Manley College of the Performing and Visual Arts in St Andrew for the Karen Smith Memorial Scholarship Concert on ...