‘A November To Caribbean Christmas
Remember’
Caribbean Life, N 50 ovember 15-21, 2019
Skip Marley and H.E.R. Tuff Gong / Island
The cast of Don’t Pass the Peppa Sauce during one of
their performances. Jay Finch
popular, award winning Derrick
Barnett and The Statement
Band kick off a month
long concert residency at the
club. The band will present
their live music show for four
consecutive Fridays starting
at 7 pm weekly, from Nov. 15
through Friday, Dec, 6.
Then on Sunday, Nov. 17
at 7 pm, fast rising actor
James Duke Walker — who
has appeared on television’s
“Diabolical” and who will
shortly be seen in season
three of the Emmy winning
“The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”
— will lead the cast of Dennis
McIntyre’s Off Broadway
police drama Split Second.
The play will be presented as
a one time only staged reading
and will be directed by
award winning producer and
playwright David Heron.
For the remainder of the
year following the Nov. 15
weekend, The Vibe will be
presenting a series of holiday
events and theme parties
leading up to 2020.
According to Heron, whose
company Sure Thing PR is co
producing the events at The
Vibe, “The team at Vibe is
using the holiday season to
say a huge thank you to all
the patrons who have supported
us throughout 2019
and over the years. Due to
popular demand, the club
has recently added new opening
hours and is now open
every Thursday from 4 pm to
midnight, as well as on Friday
and Saturday. We will be
adding more days over time.
And from Nov. 15 through
the end of the year, there will
be weekly events at Vibe that
will appeal to a wide cross
section of our fans and give
them the opportunity to ring
in the New Year in style. It
will truly be a November to
Remember and a really exciting
December as well.”
Led by the legendary
Jamaican born singer, songwriter
and musician Derrick
Barnett, Derrick Barnett and
the Statement Band is one
of the most renowned and
celebrated live music bands
in the eastern USA. The band
has toured worldwide performing
as the backing band
for the likes of Yellow Man,
Toots Hibbert, Marcia Griffiths
and Ziggy Marley and
The Melody Makers among
others. Barnett himself has
also worked with some of
the biggest names in popular
music including Anita Baker,
Chaka Khan, Missy Elliot,
Busta Rhymes, Lauryn Hill
and more.
Dennis McIntyre’s “Split
Second” was a major Off
Broadway hit in the early
1980’s. It tells the story of
an African American NYPD
police officer who shoots and
kills a caucasian car thief
during an altercation, and
must then decide how he will
explain the incident to those
closest to him.
Tickets for both events are
available at newvibelounge.
com/tickets.
The New Vibe Lounge is
located at 60 North Park Avenue
in Rockville Centre Long
Island, 11570. Opening hours
are Thursdays from 4 pm
to 12 midnight and Fridays
and Saturdays from 4 pm to
4 am.
For further information,
contact 424 -256- 6574.
project.
“Bob Marley’s grandson living
up to his lineage while finding
new ways to push the boundaries
of the genre….” writes Rolling
Stone.
FADER magazine refers
to “Slow Down” as “a proper
introduction into a new Marley
generation” while according
to VIBE “The younger Marley
has steadily generated heat for
himself.”
Earlier this year, Skip issued
“That’s Not True,” a collaboration
featuring Damian “Jr.
Gong” Marley and the two performed
the track at Kaya Fest
in Miami, where the video was
shot.
Skip’s follow up, “Can’t Take
it From Me” featuring Major
Lazer, was first performed live
onstage at New York’s Governors
Ball festival this summer.
Last year, he released
“Enemy,” and last month “Call
Me Human,” a track with French
Montana.
Skip Marley, who taught himself
to play piano, drums, guitar
and bass, released his first single,
“Cry To Me” in 2015 and a
second single called “Life” under
the Tuff Gong Label before signing
with Island Records in 2017.
“I want to spread my music
to the people and help them
unify,” said Skip, who calls reggae
greats Ziggy, Damian ‘Junior
Gong’ Marley and Stephen
Marley, uncles.
“I want people to take away
a message of love, of looking
at the way you are living and
thinking where we can work to
be better and feel better. Whatever
they’re feeling, I want them
to be able to turn up my music
and think, relax, and get good
vibes.”
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Derrick Barnett.
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toms every Caribbean faces
during the holidays. “Enjoy
the island vibes with complementary
Coquito, rum punch,
and edible treats as we wander
across the many twists
and turns with the three wise
men who aren’t wise enough
to find Jesus in time for his
birthday. Or do you ever wonder
if Scrooge was Guyanese?
What about the person who
saved Christmas, was it really
Santa or a Jamaican?,” states a
release from the group.
The team invites everyone
to come out and discover who
really makes the best rum
cake on Nov. 16 at 10 pm in
Tank Theatre (312 West 36th
St, 1st Floor)! The stage director
is Jordana Persad, script
director Gregory Cornejo, and
technical director is Samantha
Torres.
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‘SLOW DOWN’