Rita Marley - File

The Bob Marley/Rita Marley Foundation's global initiative, the Africa Unite Concert, will be held in Jamaica for the first time on Saturday, February 23, 2008, at James Bond Beach, St. Mary. It will be a combination of two events with a host of national and international artistes and where the feature documentary, Africa Unite, will make its Caribbean debut as part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the birth of the late reggae superstar, Robert Nesta Marley. The film, starring Rita Marley, Danny Glover, Angelique Kidjo, Lauryn Hill and the Marley children, is produced and directed by Stephanie Black of Life and Debt and H-2 Workers fame. It will be launched in February 2008 at the Hilton Kingston hotel.

Rootz Underground starts a 'Movement'

Rootz Underground's debut album, Movement, is finally completed, pressed and ready for distribution. Officially, the release date globally will be next March; however, there is a limited run of the album before that. The band has had guidance through the process from producers such as Wayne Armond, Dean Fraser, Bobby Digital and Rory Gillian of Stone Love.

All seated for Hammond's 'Moment'

At A Moment in Time, a four-hour concert centred on Beres Hammond, there will be room for 4,000 persons in the raised, arena-style seating of the National Indoor Sports Centre, where it will be held on Sunday, December 30. There will be 1,500 numbered, reserved seats on the floor of the arena around the stage, which will be in the centre of the arena. There will also be nine to 10 cameras being used, a first for a Jamaican production. The 30-person Sugar Hill Orchestra will be coming in from Harlem, New York, to play alongside Hammond's standard backing outfit, which will accommodate the making of the show's official DVD.