BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:155@lewesconclub.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220502T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220502T233000 DTSTAMP:20220218T132947Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/the-skatalites/ SUMMARY:The Skatalites DESCRIPTION:Global Beats Promotions presents: The Legendary Skatalites\nBan k Holiday Monday 2nd May 2022 - Bar from 5:00pm\, Doors 8pm - 11.30pm\nTic kets available HERE: https://buytickets.at/globalbeats/655897\n\nWithout s ka\, there is no reggae. Without The Skatalites\, there is no ska.\nIt’s hard to overstate the importance of The Skatalites for the development of Jamaican music. They began life in the early 1960s as a loose group of Ja maica’s top session musicians playing together in various studios and pr oducing hit record after hit record. In those studios\, they backed all of the island’s vocal artists\, including The Wailing Wailers (featuring B ob Marley\, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer)\, Toots and The Maytals\, Jackie Opel\, Doreen Shaffer\, Ken Boothe or Alton Ellis. Their recordings became the soundtrack to and the joyful expression of Jamaica’s independence i n 1962.\nIn 1964\, having already played together for years in various con stellations\, those musicians to finally record and perform in their own n ame\, calling themselves The Skatalites. Between May 1964 and August 1965\ , they recorded hundreds of instrumentals and vocal tunes. But then\, for various reasons\, they disbanded and pursued their own individual careers. \nIn wasn’t until 1983 that most of the members reunited and started pla ying shows in Jamaica and abroad. In the meantime\, their music had spread around the world\, especially in England\, where there was a massive revi val in 1979 and ska had become known as 2-Tone with bands like Madness\, T he Specials\, The Selecter\, The English Beat and Bad Manners all paying h omage to the music of The\nSkatalites.\nMost Skatalites has emigrated to t he USA by the mid-1980s and began playing together more regularly from 198 6 onwards. In 1989 they embarked on their first tour of the USA as the sup port act for the legendary Bunny Wailer\, followed by their first headline tour in the USA with 25 dates across the country. In 1991\, they started touring Europe and the world and have not stopped since. From Glastonbury to Fuji Rock\, from Montreux Jazz Festival to the hottest clubs in all cor ners of the world\, The Skatalites continue to excite their audiences with their own infectious brand of original Jamaican\nska.\nThe 2022 line-up f eatures Jamaican legends Vin Gordon\, Larry McDonald and Val Douglas - who shape reggae music.\nVin Gordon aka Don Drummond Jr. is an Alpha Boys Sch ool graduate and arguably Jamaica’s most important trombonist along with his late brothers\, Don Drummond and Rico Rodriguez. He was the main trom bone player for Studio One and can be heard on thousands of the most vital recordings coming out of Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s\, including what has become the most popular reggae riddim of all time\, Real Rock\, which he co-wrote together with original Skatalite Jackie Mittoo.\n“New boy” Larry McDonald\, who turns 85 in 2022\, started playing at around the sam e time as The Skatalites. He was a percussionist with Carlos Malcolm’s A fro-Jamaican Rhythms\, Toots &\; The Maytals and Count Ossie’s Group\ , but he later also played in the bands of Gil Scott Heron\, Taj Mahal\, L ee Scratch Perry and has been a cornerstone of Dave Hillyard Rocksteady 7 for many years.\nVal Douglas is not only the bassist of The Skatalites but arranger\, composer and producer who has made music with the essential ic ons of Reggae\, Ska\, Rockstead\, Dub and soul among other genres: from Bo b Marley to Dennis Brown\, from Peter Tosh to Abyssinans\, from Bob Andy t o Toots\, from Bunny Wailers to The Skatalites to name a few. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lewesconclub.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2022/02/Skatalites2022.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR