Posted on 16 May 2010. Tags: Barrington Levy, Cocoa Tea, Freddie McGregor, Jamaican artists, Levi Roots, O2 Academy Brixton, Reggae Reggae Sauce, Stevie Face, The Uprising Festival

The Uprising Festival will take place at O2 Academy Brixton on Saturday 19th June 2010. It features 4 great Jamaican artists Barrington Levy, Freddie McGregor, Cocoa Tea and Stevie Face, and is hosted by Levi Roots (Reggae Reggae Sauce). As well as a celebration of Reggae Music, it is also a father's day weekend celebration ...
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Posted on 26 March 2010. Tags: Black British music, Dawn Butler, Parliament, Politicians

Article By Kwaku - britishblackmusic.com
A free conference, which for the first time in the UK music industry's history, drew upon the widest constituency, from key to marginalised stakeholders, plus ministerial representation, took place Tuesday March 23 2010, at the House Of Commons.
The Copyright + Music Industry + Music Industry Education: 2010, Where Are We At? ...
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Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: 50 Cent, African Media, African Role Models, Black Media, Black Role Models, Ligali, Nyansapo, podcasts, radio, Snoop dogg

Yesterday I received an email from the ligali website. Ligali describes itself as a Pan Africanist human rights Organisation. Ligali Often send me their updates and newsletters, which depending on whether I have a moment to myself I read and digest or sadly leave them to quickly disappear in the the tides of messages in ...
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Posted on 15 February 2010. Tags: African American, film, Jazz, Movies, Music, Soldiers

Found this excellent video on Youtube today, some footage of African American Jazz music in the 40's.
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Posted on 16 October 2009. Tags: Black, Black Britain, Black History, Black Londoners, Blacks, dance, London, Newspapers

Above is a set of Newspaper articles from the 1780s.? Black Dance in London - Circa 1780s
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Posted on 01 October 2009. Tags: Black Music, Michael Jackson, Mobo awards, Music

British acts dominated the honours at the annual Mobo awards ceremony for music of black origin, which this year paid tribute to the late King of Pop Michael Jackson.
London Hip hop trio N-Dubz scooped the awards for Best Album and Best Act, while JLS, finalists in Britain's X Factor talent television talent show, ...
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Posted on 18 September 2009. Tags: George Bridgetower. Ludwig Van Beethoven, Music, Vienna, Violin

The talented African violin Prodigy George Polgreen Bridgetower was born in Biala, Poland on February 29, 1780; his father...... the African Prince was married to a German woman who is named in English documents as Mary Ann Bridgetown. They had two sons, who both became fine musicians. The younger brother, "Fredrick", was a cellist.........
(Prodigy George ...
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Posted on 12 September 2009. Tags: Black British

Before David Grant found fame as a solo artist and lately as a vocal coach on TV programmes such as Fame Academy and also as a contemporary Gospel artist, he was in a '80s Brit-funk group called Linx.
From making and selling their 12-inch single of 'You're Lying' in shops like City Records in Holborn, they ...
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Posted on 04 May 2009. Tags: Africa, Britain, Caribbean, Community, Economics, Events, Markets, Media, Music, sustainability

I'm browsing the shelves of my office bookshelf. This is, in fact, the philosophy section at the local library, but i'm sure that many of the web community out there will be familiar with this analogy.
I'm also very excited at the impending Summer launch of the BBake entertainment service.
BBake at www.bbake.com will allow you to ...
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Posted on 15 April 2009. Tags: Carnival, Panorama, Steelbands, Steelpan, Trinidad

Trinidad Carnival 2009 Featuring Desperadoes the Finest steel Orchestra in the World
Review by Mighty Jamma
The first time I saw Despers, I was with my brother Norman in 1981. They were performing at the Birmingham Odeon, (as part of their UK tour). The whole audience was transfixed, we were amazed with the standard and sound of ...
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Posted on 05 April 2009. Tags: African American, Alabama, America, Black Music, Entertainment, Lionel Ritchie, Rap Music, Wales

As Lionel Ritchie prepares to return to Wales as part of his latest UK tour, he talks to Gavin Allen about his career renaissance, his love life and the death of black music
FOR a man synonymous with romantic ballads, Lionel Ritchie hasn’t been particularly lucky in love.
Ritchie started his career writing up-tempo club tunes with ...
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Posted on 28 March 2009. Tags: actors, Black, Black akers, Black Britain, Black Film, Blacks, Britain, British, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Derby, film, Films, London, News, Opera, Police, stories, TV, writers

Tuesday 11.30am March 31st & April 7th 2009 BBC Radio 4 and on BBC i-player for 7 days after broadcast
Programme 1: Less than 50 years ago a passionate bedroom kiss between a white man and a black woman in a popular television soap opera was the stuff of tabloid headlines. So risque that, in ...
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