Jamaican Reggae on the St-Helene Island
St-Helene, the little island South of Montreal’s downtown is definitely no Jamaica. Yes, an obvious statement indeed; especially considering that St-Helene is in the middle of the St-Lawrence river, which is the furthest thing from the Caribbean Sea.
Well, that little detail isn’t preventing the organizers of the Montreal International Reggae Festival to import a little bit of Jamaica on St-Helene for three short days this coming week end.
For this year’s edition of the Reggae festival, the celebration is moving from the Old Port to Island St-Helene, a nice site for having shows and for spending the day outside in the sun in general.
The most interesting part of the festival, in my opinion, will be on the first day (Friday the 26th of June) with the Stur-Gav Sound System party. Apparently these guys have been together for a very long time, making music and performing following the sound system party tradition of Jamaica. Promises to be a good show; here is a little preview from over 20 years ago already:
