Award-winning vocalist Cleveland Watkiss MBE marks his 60th year with a special celebration of the impact of Jamaican music and culture on the world stage.
The performance comes to The Stables on January 31 and will feature his lauded take on the Great Jamaican Songbook, including the songs of Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Delroy Wilson, and more.
It is well known that Jamaica has a long history of pioneering musical sounds - from Mento, Ska, Reggae, Dub, Roots and way beyond with many of its internationally celebrated musicians spawning from that great musical institution (The Alpha Boys School) under the tutelage of (The Nun) Sister Mary Ignatius Davis.
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Record labels and producers including Studio One, Coxsone Dodd, TuffGong, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, and King Tubby were all highly influential in the development of Jamaican Music along with musicians, singers and performers such as Don Drummond, Ernest Ranglin, Barratt Brothers, Jackie Mittoo, Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace, Alton Elis, Ken Booth, The Wailers, Millie Small, Marcia Griffith, Dawn Penn, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Burnin Spear, Jonny Osbourne and many many others.
Many of those named here are also Alpha Boys.
Watkiss will be joined by an array of musical guests, drawing from his collaborators old and new – a who’s who list of the British-Caribbean musical legends including Orphy Robinson, Byron Wallen, and for the EFG London Jazz Festival concert only, special guests Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Jason Yarde and more to be announced.
