Lambeth Council Faces Housing Ombudsman Inspection Over Repeat Complaint Handling Issues.In photos: A lively Brixton MegaPop Party at the Effra Social, Sat 8th July 2023 – and we’re back this Saturday!.Brixton Hill Studios, housing repairs and toilets in public parks all feature in Questions to Cabinet Members at next Lambeth Full Council meeting.Football tonight! Dulwich Hamlet take on Bromley FC in pre-season friendly, Tues 11th July 2023.Lambeth Lib Dems table council motion demanding improved support for asylum seekers being cared for in the borough.Other images courtesy of Culture Promotions Shaka and Grant at Albany Empire: David Corio/Redferns The mainstage is produced by Culture Promotions for Lambeth Council.įor complete schedule and full details of the whole weekend visit: Lambeth Country Show 10 – 11 June 2023 – What’s On Streatham’s The Floacist Omar headlining Saturday Tippa Irie appears Sunday Soul Singer Omar Lyefook headlines on Saturday along with an exciting bill which includes Streatham native Natalie Steward aka The Floacist (watch this space). Twinkle Brothers are at 6.30pm, and Jamaican reggae star Anthony B with House of Riddim band at 7.30pm is the icing on the cake for a magnificent day of roots reggae music. Roots Day on Sunday 11th June will be opened by Macka B, while W e Salute Jah Shaka with Dub Asante Band feat Matic Horns is scheduled for 4.45pm. Shaka would also appear as himself in the 1980 film Babylon, an incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set in Thatcher-era Brixton.Įmmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, Artistic Director, Windrush Caribbean Film Festival who recently led a minute silence in honour of Shaka praised the “the body of work and the legacy” of Shaka saying, “he is “without question a great figurehead in the African-Caribbean community”. “Everybody know him, in the business” said Henry, “of all the iconic sound man, he is the top one”. “He had his own way of dancing that people picked up on”, so as well as his influential music production and sound, “the way people dance to reggae today is the way Shaka dance”.īorn in Jamaica, Shaka came to south London as a child in 1956, as part of the Windrush generation, and started off carrying boxes for Freddie Cloudburst Sound System before going on to work as an operator.īy the late 70’s his sound system had a large following which included many influential musicians and producers. “He liked instruments and instrumentals”, and Tenyue would record for him many times.īut “he loved to dance,” Tenyue told the Buzz. Henry first met Shaka in 1976 when he “tried to get into one of his dances”, and would go on to carry his boxes (speakers). Jamaican born trombonist, Henry Tenyue whose parents also came to London in the 1950s, has a similar sentiment, “any time he did a show, he took books, crutches, lotta stuff”. Buttons of Matic Horn on mainstage Lambeth Country Show “In life there are people who give” said Grant, “he would take wheelchairs and clothes and many ting to Africa when he play there. They both spoke about his supportive nature, his giving and his charitable work. Brixton based Grant recalled that Shaka would always promote him and his new dub plate (vinyl) when Norman would come to London, eventually producing two albums and introducing him to the Mad Professor. Shaka and Norman, Albany Empire, Deptford, Londonīut Twinkle Brothers’ Norman Grant and Matic Horns’ Henry ‘Buttons’ Tenyue who will be playing a half hour main stage musical tribute on Roots Day, Sunday 11th June with Dub Asante Band, had more to say about the great man. His sound-system will “continue to pulsate through the generations of music lovers and musicians that he inspired” she said, “his contribution to music is emblematic of the transformative impact of the Windrush generation”. Lisa Anderson, Managing Director of Black Cultural Archives who is set to address the main stage on Saturday 10th June, told the Buzz that Shaka’s contribution to British and world music culture was indelible. This year’s country show will be marked with memories of the highly respected music producer Jah Shaka as tributes continue to flow in for the ‘Mighty Zulu Warrior’.
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