Producer and manager Jeremy Harding, songwriter and producer Mikey Bennett and producer Sawandi Simon shared two days of musical knowledge with twenty-five aspiring musicians and music industry practitioners at the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp this past week.

On Saturday, April 16, Jakes Hotel will be hosting the 2011 Jakes’ Off-Road Triathlon in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth. The Jakes Off-Road Triathlon is an annual run, bike ride and swim race —  500 meter ocean swim, 25k mountain bike, and 7k country run. All proceeds benefit BREDS, the Treasure Beach Foundation,

A film charting the rise of Bob Marley and The Wailers to international stardom – made from footage shot in the early 1970s and lost for 30 years – is set to get its first public viewing. Read more at the BBC  

The BIG PICTURE Global Exchange by ILLITERATE Gallery in Denver, Colorado is a very cool project where photography meets street art on a global scale. Big Picture 2011 is an international photographic exchange where photographers from around the world submitted images to be blown up as large format prints and displayed

  Here’s a great story in the Observer about Rootz Underground’s new initiative to encourage persons to plant trees around the world. They are trying to have 100,000 trees planted in the next year. Lots more about Rootz Underground in our archives.