Windrush Explosion is followed by Late Night Vortex Saturday Night Dub Club with Cleveland Watkiss and Orphy Robinson
Windrush Explosion is a journey into the sound of the peoples of the Caribbean and the imprint of their musical legacy in the UK. Images and sounds provide a 360 degree view of our Windrush Explosion. Mento, Calypso, Ska, Rocksteady, lovers Rock, Rockers. The blues party, blue spot radiogram steelbands…
Two Award winning musical pioneers doing their thing a little way different.
Come see, hear and dance to ORPHY ROBINSON & CLEVELAND WATKISS (DJ Sets)
‘SwingDub’
Imagine if Duke Ellington had met Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry,
well imagine no more.
“before the ingredients of jazz came to New Orleans
it made its presence felt in the West Indies.
That ingredient or a major part of it came with these
people who were brought to the West Indies”.-Duke Ellington