Mystic Bowie runs up on stage, beaming, his dreadlocks flying in the air. The 50-year-old Jamaican dances, lost in the joy of the roots reggae music his backing band plays to introduce him to the ...

Reggae fans probably know the Jamaican-born, London-based Linton Kwesi Johnson best for his protest albums, classics such as Dread Beat An’ Blood (1978), Making History (1984) and the more recent More ...

Not all reggae artists give thanks and praise to Jah, rally for a return to Africa, smoke cannabis and wear their hair in dreadlocks. But because reggae so embraced the political and spiritual ...

Goodbye, reggae festival! Hello, Reggae Hall of Fame! After 36 years of championing reggae and music from across Africa in San Diego, Makeda Dread is retiring, at least in a manner. Next month’s 35th ...

ASPEN The neighborhood in the English city of Birmingham where Robin Campbell grew up was heavy with all kinds of immigrants: Irish, Scots, Jamaicans, Africans and others. The predominant sound, ...

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There are two records that D.C. native Gary Himelfarb, 60, credits with turning him on to the music that would become his life’s work: Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Catch a Fire” and Jimmy Cliff’s “The ...

In 1972, Gary Himelfarb, a somewhat aimless stoner kid from the Washington, D.C., suburbs, heard reggae music for the first time and fell in love. He embraced the music of the landmark film The Harder ...