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Hosted by Sizzla, the 2019 Inside Reggae group played in Judgment Yard. It was a full house, as people mixed in-and-out on the lead vocal
mic, with lots of harmony sung right into the room… Meanwhile, Sizzle was running cables, recording the whole thing! Photo by Roslyn Parker

By anthony Postman into the local scene, but who may actually
be responsible for creating the scene – those
and Matt Jenson
I n my years since leaving the editor’s desk Flash-forward to early 2019. Arriving to my
connections MAKE the trip!

at the Reggae Festival Guide, I’ve been
inbox: the latest email from my amazing
working hard in my master-calling as a
friend, the founder and leader of the “Life of
musician, building my catalog up to 30+

songs and preparing my debut album First Light. Bob Marley” program and ensemble at Berklee
School of Music, Matt Jenson. I was with Matt
Over the years, I’ve still maintained traveling to in 2009 in Hawaii, in his immersive Reggae

far places like Bali, Mount Everest and Nepal, School program, which not only taught reggae

to name a few! If you’re a musician, and one music to ensemble players, but also presented

who tours at all, hopefully your love of travel is the history and culture of reggae, with the

commensurate with your love of music. And me, incomparable reggae Don, Roger Steffens,

I’m always seeking opportunities for my music, and archetypal builder of the St. Croix sound,

my travel and perhaps most importantly, for my legendary journeyman guitarist Tuff Lion.
learning.
And I KNOW that those of us mentioned so far –

I have found that it is connections on the road the editor, the writer, the historian, the professor/

– traveling close to the ground, meeting the lecturer/presenter, the journey man, the builder
locals, meeting those who aren’t only plugged – would all agree that Reggae’s historical, social,

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