Engineroom at VP Records’ Soca Gold 2005 Launch Party @ Club Gabah, Los Angeles, CA Christopher Edmonds, aka Engineroom, has been spinning cutting edge Caribbean dance music for parties, clubs, concerts and the radio since 1985 in Jamaica, Florida and California. View from Engineroom’s booth- Reggae On The River, Humboldt

Peter Dean Rickards has brilliantly captured the essence of  Josef Bogdanovich, CEO of Downsound Records, in a thirty minute pilot episode of a new series,  DiMaggio: The Last Don (screened one night only last June). In the pilot, Bogdanovich, who runs Kingston-based entertainment company Downsound Records, is involved in artist

Accompong, St. Elizabeth Here’s a list of some of the more interesting events that are happening in January – let me know if you have any to add. Jan 2 SHAGGY & FRIENDS SAVE A LIFE CONCERT – Jamaica House, Kingston More info Jan 6 ACCOMPONG MAROON FESTIVAL  – Accompong, St.

The Shaggy & Friends concert will be held on the lawns of Jamaica House today, January 2. Support  this worthy cause in aid of the Bustamante Hospital for Children. For more info see story in Jamaica Gleaner

Firstly, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Thanks to all the loyal YardEdge supporters out there and here’s to a great 2010! And now for the Best YardEdge Posts: 1.  Flagstaff  Heritage Tour and Trails Launched in Cockpit Country 2.  The Area Youth Foundation Transforming Lives 3.  The Top Dub Albums

For all the Rootz fans out there…Strawberry Hill is the place to be 31/12!

Rootz Underground at Band Incorporated – Dec 18, 09.

Here’s a well written, balanced article by Kevin O’Brien Chang on the socio-economic situation we are now facing in Jamaica- a case of the chickens finally coming home to roost…. Read more at the Jamaica Gleaner

Pot o’ Gold will be having only one more show – this Sunday at 5pm. Come out and support this great production by the Area Youth Foundation!

Thanks to Frame By Frame and Tanya Taylor of Anyhoo Productions for this Christmas message. Apparently TVJ declined to air this as a public service announcement as they felt it was not appropriate for their audience who they described as “poor black people”.  Not sure what exactly the problem is here but