****************************************************************************** In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty Forward the Reggae Vibe...Every Time ! Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide Tom "Jahson" Pearson R.A.W.#33 http://www.reggaeambassadors.org ****************************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:17:58 -0500 From: RAW1418 To: tap@kuentos.guam.net Subject: Wha Gwaan in R.A.W. Wednesday December 24 , 2003 (/`7._(/`7......Wha Gwaan in R.A.W......74/)_.74/) Wednesday December 24 , 2003 ************************************************************************* *INDEX [1] Free Christmas Mp3 Download! [2] KNON 89.3 Irie FM's Reggae DJ's Give Thanks for year-end 2003 [3] DEC '03 Jahmark Newsletter [4] RAW BUBBLERS (Dec '03) [5] Eek A Mouse coming to Sacramento, CA on January 2 [6] JahWorksUpdate:: Happy Holidays*Buju Banton*Grammys+More ************************************************************************* [1]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Reyal Records (#421) Subject: Free Christmas Mp3 Download Date Sun.21 Dec.2003 From: Al Kirk reyal_akb@hotmail.com To All Greetings; All R.A.W massive. As a token of our appreciation, Reyal Records would like to make available to all R.A.W members the Christmas single Jamaica At Christmas by AKBs Sister Black, from the album Irie Christmas by JAJA. A 3-mix single, plus a bonus instrumental featuring Alphonso on Sax, are available at www.theartoftech.com. Go to Independent Band Directory, click on Sistah Black, after arriving on the Sistah Black page click on Dj download, enter the password AKBXMAS and download any or all the version. We hope you enjoy, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also look forward to a new release from AKB in 2004. For more info on bookings, promo, or sales please contact us at reyalrecords@hotmail.com. [2]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Mushiya Felecia Strickland (#1667) Subject: KNON 89.3 Irie FM's Reggae DJ's Give Thanks for year-end 2003 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:21:28 EST From: MOJAMAICA@aol.com Greetings once Again in the Name of the Most High JAH! Because of the overwhelming support from the Reggae Entertainment Communities, the Year 2003 was a very good year for Dallas's own, Reggae Radio. Give special Thanks from the KNON 89.3 Irie FM Reggae DJ Crew: DJ' Alex C, Ima Uwagbai, Ras Ridi, JAH Larry, Everton, Tunde Obazee, Chief Zehaie, Mike D. Magician and their programme supporting DJ's: Queen Amy, Queen Mushiya, Steady Rankin, Eustafe (Brother Eu), Special Guest DJ: Christabari So many of you have come out and given your support to KNON's Irie FM Reggae Programming this past year, many more than we could have ever imagined! And we continue to grow, grow and grow, leaps and bounds, Internationally. We wish you all a very Safe and Properous New Year!! 2004 Good things a coming! With our Heartfelt Love, Special Thanks to the below for that Extra push and encouragement during the year. You all had very busy tour schedules etc., but you made it possible to still support us, your kindness is JAH sent. Sarah Daniels - Promoter in Austin, who continues to put in hard work to get this Reggae Thing Rolling in Texas Inner Visions Reggae Band - For your Active continued support and donation of your musical talents for our events. Mikey Dread - For your continued active support in PROMOTIONAL TRANING! and promotions both U.S. and Internationally of our progamming and giving us the much needed leads in the Reggae world on an International level. In other words you are our MAJOR! Linker upper and we apprecilove you. Many of the International Artist and media came to us through you! Who's the Dread Still at the Controls?! Mikey Dread! DJRJ - Texas Reggae List - Pushing the message forward, that Reggae is Live and Striving in Texas! Good Work! Daddy Roots - For sending us your sunshine, Peter Tosh would have been proud of his influence on your music. The Roskinds - Heart work and Jahdecation to spread the word "ONE LOVE" AND '' Unity" Carmelita Harris, Irie Visions-San Francisco - The Queen of Reggae Tele, What would we do without you! Shela with San Francisco Chronicle - Continued Reggae Support in Print and Carmelita's side kick. (smile) Sister Yasmin - DJ fabulous California - Undeniable Love of Reggae!!!!!!! Sanchez - For rolling up your sleeves and managing the phones. Much thanks for helping out at the Studios pledge drive with Tunde Zema - Our special Woman of Reggae Youssou Sidibe - Senegal - Too Special Yabba Griffiths - Jamaica - Your Energy!!! Glen Washington - You were great!!!!! Our Audience are still Talking! Patty Watts, Radiant Enterprises - Naomi Baylarian , Moko Jumbi 'n' Fren Dem, USVI, For giving us Inner Visions (our Joy and Hearts) Tom and the Crew at RAW (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide) - Your presence is magnificent and priceless! Byron Henry - Jamaican Observer Newspaper - Your encouragement and strength is immeasurable! All of the KNON 89.3 Irie FM Reggae DJ's world wide Fans - Without you there would be no us! Henrik Baek -Djembre Magazine - Denmark - Keeping us alive in Europe Reggae Review - For supporting Reggae Artists! The Scientist - for the many hours of counseling!!! Henry Turner Jr. and Flavor - Your continued support and promotion of the Station and allowing the Queen to share the stage with you guys! Roots Natty - Puerto Rico - For the remembrance That "No man is an Island" Your continued support! The Neutral Sister and Janna - For giving our audience that extra special touch! Waisu - Nigeria Watusi - Dallas Luciano! - For just being YOU!!! - No matter what Luciano always makes his way to Dallas at least once per year! Augustine -Palm Beach Reggae Club - Because of you and Tunde Planning, the 1st annual Reggae on the Water -Dallas was a major success! Dappa Don, Culture and Too Much, Courtesy of DJ Curtis G! - For coming all the way 4 times from New York to appear Live at the studio to boost our Audience! Don, Kathy and the Bob Marley Festival Tour Promotions, based out of Houston Texas - Your mere existence Wailers - For your ongoing, continued support for many years! Ras Marli Lady Cham, West Indian Times Laura and the Reggae Festival Guide Crew Reggae 24 - Thanks for Linking us out there. Your site is a Reggae Information Mecca! Extra Special Thanks to DJ. Steve Buggie, for his long time support and direction in Reggae Radio. There is not enough space to personally Thank you all, but please believe you have not been forgotten, all of your input and direction made a very special impact on our programming. With that we say, to All The Radio DJ's, Television VJ's, Newspapers, Fans, Magazines and Artists, Across the U.S., Europe, Africa, North, South, East and Western Block of Europe, Russia, Middle East and Beyond! Give Thanks for your continued support of the KNON 89.3 Iire FM African/Caribbean/Reggae Programming. We work together like a hand and glove! Reggae Unites, War is not the answer as Inner Visions would say " We need to Love one Another Now"! Peace and Love Jah continued Blessings Mushiya Mushiya Felecia Strickland Raw #1667 Jobe Enterprises P.O. Box 600542 Dallas, Texas 75360-0542 KNON Reggae DJ's P.R. Person http://www.knon.org/ http://www.mikeydread.com/ http://www.innervisionsreggae.com/ (214) 725-4191 tel: (469) 767-9730 Mojamaica@aol.com [3]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Jahmark Subject: DEC '03 Jahmark Newsletter Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:32:36 -0800 (PST) From: Jahmark Greetings All, First off, here's to wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanza and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year '04!!! Also, I would like to thank all of our fans for showing their support over the past year. We have a blast everytime we perform and it's great to have you there to enjoy it with us, the more the merrier!!! Before I move on I would like to share an experience with you all that I and the rest of the band experienced recently... On last Tuesday (Dec. 16th) we had the opportunity to perform for the patients (inmates) at the Metropolitan State Mental Hospital (thanks Julian, for reals) and needless to say it was a very uplifting experience for all present, the band, the patients and the hospital staff. This is an institution where they place people unfortunate enough to have committed crimes in a state of "madness" and are deemed to be too mentally unstable by the state to be placed in actual prisons. After our performance we gave away two Cds to a couple of the patients, next thing we knew there was a mad rush to the stage (no pun intended), luckily I had more CDs with me and we eventually ended up giving away around ten of them (mostly our LOVE POWER CD). In the batch there was one of our newer LIFE! CDs and around five minutes after we passed out the CDs the guy who got the LIFE! CD came up to us kind of teary-eyed and asked us to autograph it for his lady (?) at which time he expressed to us that, "I just want you guys to know for whatever it's worth that I am in this place for LIFE and what you did here for me today words cannot even begin to express, thank you". Many of them (over a hundred patients/inmates were there) were not that verbally prolific but you could see it in their eyes and their smiles and the joy they felt from moving in their own way to the beat of the music, and by the continuous shouts of "thank you!" after we completed our performance... that has got to be a horrid life for anyone to have to live and we ask that the most high bless even them for they knew not what they were doing when they did it!!! RASTAFARI!!! Sorry for that little mini-detour but that experience is still very much fresh on my mind and I was impelled to share it with you all, SO I'll move on now to the matters at hand... Technology has now made it possible for musicians to have very professional recording studios in their homes and it's no longer about having to go through money-grabbing producers to get our music out to the public. In short, it's no longer about who has the studio but rather it's now about who has the good ideas and the inspiration that uplifts and touches peoples' lives and hearts 'n souls... We are proud to be able to bring our two hi-quality CDs LOVE POWER and more recently LIFE! to those of you who love our music. Many of you have expressed to me that you cannot wait for us to record more material and as a matter of fact we are in the studio right now as we speak recording a double CD album of thirty songs entitled MISCONCEPTION, hopefully by summer or fall of '04 this project will be completed! We are presently in the process of updating our website as well as going through a change of address, so those of you who would like to purchase CDs please do not send any checks or money orders to the old address at 9018 Balboa Blvd, #577, Northridge, CA. 91328, otherwise it will not get to us... At the moment for those of you who would like to purchase our music through downloads please visit the artist's alliance website where you'll find not only our music but a host of other artists as well from all different genres of music. Both LOVE POWER and LIFE! can be now found on this site as MP3 is no longer in business... For our die-hard fans that can't wait 'til we get the new album/albums completed please visit the e-music website at where there are five albums on our BANANA-BOAT RECORDS label available for download. These songs were taken from out of our BANANA-BOAT archives and were recorded between the late 80s and early 90s (some live, some in analog studios), they are entitled FREEDOM FIGHTERS, SOULSHAKIN', NEVER TOO LATE, STOP THE WAR & SAVE THE EARTH and all were digitally mastered before being posted to the e-music site!!! If you would like to purchase actual CDs in hand just send me an e-mail at and I'll let you know how to go about doing it for a small donation of $15.oo (which would include shipping and handling of course). We cannot maintain keeping our music "out there" without your support, so we would like for all of you to bombard your radio stations with phone calls requesting JAHMARK & the SOULSHAKERS music, if the station says that they do not have the CD don't stop calling them but e-mail me as well and let me know the particular radio station that you are listening to in your neck of the woods and I'll be sure to send them off a CD or two!!! As far as our live performances you can always know where we are at by visiting our website at and selecting the category. On the website you will also find information about the band, as well as news clippings from newspapers and magazines, and downloadable lyrics of all the songs listed. In the future we will have pages with photos of the band, photos of you the fans, video clips, audio clips, photos of some of Jahmark's artwork over the years, etc. We thank you all for your continued support of JAHMARK & the SOULSHAKERS live performances, and our CDs on our BANANA-BOAT RECORDS label, as well as the WEBSITE... For those of you who are artists yourselves please let me know if you are interested on getting your product up for sale on the artist's alliance website at by sending me an e-mail at and I will let you know how to go about doing it, all genres of music are welcome!!! we are totally confident that with your continued support this music will eventually reach out and touch by the millions the rightful people who are supposed to be touched by this music with or without the support of a major record label, for our mission is not only to totally entertain you but also to totally inspire, educate and uplift you as well along with the process of entertainment, spread the word my "peops" and let's continue to reggae on in a massive way through to 2004, JAH LIVE!!! One Love & Peace Out, Jahmark http://www.jahmark.com [4]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Rootsmon Bird (#36) Subject: RAW BUBBLERS (Dec '03) Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 5:47 PM Compiled by Rootsmon Bird (RAW #36) from playlists sent in by RAW DJs worldwide ALBUMS ====== ARTIST ALBUM LABEL ====== ===== ===== 1. Everton Blender Kingman Heartbeat 2. Nasio Fontaine Living In The Positive Higher Love 3. Ranking Joe Zion High Blood & Fire 4. Luciano Tell It From The Heart Minor 7 Flat 5 5. Burning Spear Freeman Burning Spear 6. Junior Kelly Smile VP 7. Midnite Vijan Rastafaria 8. Culture World Peace RAS 9. Iley Dread Unite The People Kings Of Kings 10.Beres Hammond Can't Stop A Man Harmony House/VP COMPILATIONS ============ TITLE LABEL ===== ===== 1. Studio One Soul Soul Jazz 2. 4 Rebels Vol 2 RAS 3. Fat Eyes Dancehall Dee-Lite Heartbeat 4. Ragga Dancehall Anthems 2003 Greensleeves 5. Dancehall Attack & Dee-Lite Heartbeat 6. Reggae Gold 2003 VP 7. Coolie Dance Greensleeves 8. Riddim Rider Vol 9 Jet Star 9. Strictly The Best Vol 31 VP 10. R&B Hits Reggae Style Joe Frasier/VP All RAW DJs are highly encouraged to submit their Top Ten playlists to Rootsmon Bird: Using snail mail or fax, OR Using e-mail, by the 10th of each month to: by the 5th of each month to Rootsmon Bird jds@littlemunk.com OR PO Box 875 bubblers@reggaeambassadors.org East Lansing MI 48826-0875 Fax: 517-482-4330 Posted by Jah Son RAW #33 ____ | __ \EGGAE | \/ //\MBASSADORS |_|\_\<>\\ /\ORLDWIDE #33 jahson@kuentos.guam.net /_/\_\\/\/ / \//\\/ Forwarding The Reggae Vibe...Everytime! [5]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Kaati (#111) Subject: Eek A Mouse coming to Sacramento, CA on January 2 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:23:20 -0800 From: Kaati Friday, January 2 EEK A MOUSE and Zion Roots Harlows, Sacramento $15 advance/$18 day of show Doors 8:30/Showtime 9:30pm 21 and over Www.renegadeshows.com Kaati #111 Reggae Business Association Renegade Productions P.O. Box 50635 Reno, NV 89513 (775) 337-8344 fax: 775/337-6499 Kaati@reggaefestivalguide.com Www.reggaefestivalguide.com Www.renegadeshows.com [6]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Jahworks.org Subject: JahWorksUpdate:: Happy Holidays*Buju Banton*Grammys+More Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:07:54 -0000 From: jahworks_update We at Jahworks.org want to extend our deep and heartfelt wishes to all of you for a happy and healthy holiday season! May the spirit of the holidays remind you that there is strength and excellence in all our collective works. There are some great new articles about Buju Banton and Sean Paul currently running on the site. We have the latest entertainment news; event listings; and some worthwhile CD reviews, if you're still looking for that perfect gift! All is accessible via the homepage: http://www.jahworks.org Last minute shoppers: Check out the collection of Bob Marley and Jamaica posters available for purchase at http://www.jahworks.org/store/posters.html We'd like to thank all of our site visitors who come back to the site often, value our hard work, and find what we do worthwhile, educational and entertaining. We'd also like to thank all of our sponsors who help us with operating costs; the great companies who send us product to review and giveaway; all of our friends and family for moral support; and lastly the FANTASTIC contributors who donate their time, effort and work to our worthwhile publication. We couldn't do it without the collective effort from all of you. We give so much thanks! We extend our deep gratitude and warm wishes for a peaceful, happy and blessed year to come. [7]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Saxsemilla (#900) Subject: Jammin' to 2004 with Pure Roots Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:47:00 -0800 (PST) From: RICHARD PRAFDER Bredren & Sistren, Happy Holidays to All!. For People in the New York Area. Come Check out Saxsemilla with Winston Irie & Selective Security for a Pure Roots Caribbean New Years Eve (Wednesday night Dec 31st 2003->2004). For More Info: Call The Baja California Grille in Long Beach, New York for details Tel. 516.889.5992 Jah Love, Saxse' Pleaes note Saxsemilla Inc's / New E-mail info@reggaetoday.com *********************************************************************** In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty Forward the Reggae Vibe...Every Time ! Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide Tom Pearson R.A.W.#33 http://www.reggaeambassadors.org ************************************************************************* < R.A.W. Disclaimer > "Any and all statements, views, and opinions expressed in the 'Wha' Gwaan in R.A.W?' newsletter are those of individual members of Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide, Inc. (R.A.W.). R.A.W. is not responsible for the veracity, or for the content, of any R.A.W. member's statement, views, and/or opinions included in this newsletter."