No April fools here. Once again, First Fridays going down tonight in the Bronx and, as usual, everything curated by our peoples DJ Asho. Check out the details on tonight’s festivities below…
FIRST FRIDAYS! @ The Bronx Museum presents: CANDELA!
4th Annual Collaboration with The Havana Film Festival New York
Part of Si Cuba! www.sicuba.org
Co-Presented with HABANA | HARLEM™
Produced by Asho Productions.
Performances by: The Pedrito Martinez Project
Music by: DJ Asho
Screening of ESO QUE ANDA / VAN VAN FEVER
Ian Padrón. 2010. Cuba. Documentary. 70 min.
Spanish with English Subtitles.
Friday April 1, 2011
Free! No Cover!
6-10 PM
Check out more info on everything after the jump..
Featuring music from his last show in Pittsburgh, PA. The full album dropped last month and is available here.
…Bob Marley Live Forever is an informal recording of Marley’s final public concert which occurred on September 23, 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although he had collapsed earlier that month in New York and was advised to cancel his America tour, Marley decided to do the Pittsburgh show.
At the time no one suspected that this would be the last go round. A routine taping was done from the sound board but unfortunately the tape ran out before the show was completed and thus the last two numbers were mastered from an audience tape whose audio was inferior to the rest of the tape…
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On the first anniversary of AFROCUBA, DJ Asho sat down with Afrofusion to talk about how he developed the idea for the event, and how far it has come since the first edition.
It’s great to see our friends improving and getting more recognition day by day. Our peoples Homeboy Sandman is on definitely on the rise and is set to make big noise in 2011.
Most recently he stopped by the set of NPR’s Soundcheck to give a taste of the skill set that has his name buzzing majorly. Check out the clip and interview below…
Homeboy Sandman stopped through WNYC’s Soundcheck studio on NPR for a live performance and interview. He performs “The Carpenter,” “Yeah But I Can Rhyme Though,” and “72 Bars For Chosenberg”, with some interviews mixed in between. Check the video of Boy Sand rippin through “The Carpenter”, as well as an audio stream/download of the session.
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While the sport of Cricket is a mystery to most Americans, it’s loved by most in throughout the Caribbean. In his new film, Fire In Babylon, British director Stevan Riley gives some insight into why exactly this is. Check out the details below…
Charting the glorious supremacy of the West Indies cricket team throughout the late 70s and 80s, this film describes how the bat and ball was more effective than gunfire in the battle against racial injustice and struggle for black rights.
In a turbulent era of apartheid in South Africa; race-riots in England and civil unrest in the Caribbean, the West Indian cricketers struck a wonderfully defiant blow at the forces of white prejudice world-wide. With Caribbean flair, fearless spirit and a thumping reggae beat, they hijacked the genteel game of the privileged elite and replayed it on their own terms. By dominating at the highest level – longer than any team in the history of sport – their symbolic declaration was clear: people of colour will not be dictated to – on a cricket ground or in any other field of life.
‘Fire in Babylon’ boasts dynamic archive, classic music by the likes of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Gregory Issacs and Burning Spear, and is a story that celebrates the emancipation of a people through the sport of cricket.
The film will open in select markets this May, and a DVD release will follow on Jun 6th. For more info on the project, be sure to check the official site or follow their page on Facebook.
Also, after the jump check out the first part of a similar documentary, Empire Of Cricket….
For those who might need a primer on the sport, or at least the uniforms, click here.
For a long time the US has been practicing the policy of deportation for ex-cons. In some ways the Caribbean has become a dumping ground for them. A year after the earthquake in Haiti deportation resumed to Haiti even though conditions were still poor. The NY Times picks up from that point to show you the stories of a few young men who were deported for minor offenses.
In 2010 Vybz didn’t do one gun chune, and it looks like he is going to keep that up in 2011. Kartel is back at it explaining another one of his fetishes – tattoos.
I can remember spending long hot summers in Guyana at my grandparents place, its was some of the best times I had as a kid. One thing that always struck me as odd when I went back was the fact that Rastas used to get a lot of negative attention there and I could never understand why. As I got older I noticed it was a common theme throughout the islands, its obvious some people just couldn’t see past the hair and the exterior. “Rasta Love” picks up off of those same negative connotations to give you a dope little love story.
PUMA has a new sneaker campaign for its Faas 500 running shoe, based around the fictitious band of Rocker, Flex and Groove which are also the three components of the Faas shoe technology. Big ups to PUMA for recognizing the athletes of Jamaica for their natural training methods which make them the best in the world. Check out the new campaign with special appearances from Usain Bolt.
