- The event will coincide with the birthday 72 from one of the most influential reggae artists
This Wednesday it will be inaugurated in Kingston, Jamaica, the museum in honor of one of the most influential reggae artists, the great Peter Tosh. For five days, activities related to this will be carried out., your birth number 72.
The ceremony is scheduled for this Wednesday 19 and will have the presence of the family, friends and followers of the singer, in addition to the Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness.
The activities will not be limited only to Wednesday as there will be a series of events until Sunday, including the annual Peter Tosh Symposium at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (West Indies University), where various speakers will talk on Thursday about the singer's legacy, his role as a black radical activist in the Caribbean, his prophetic philosophy and will be remembered as a pioneer in the defense of the use of marijuana.
While a concert in tribute to Tosh is scheduled for Saturday with guests such as Andrew Tosh - the singer's son -, Marcia Griffiths, Luciano, Tarrus Riley, Chronixx, Kabaka Pyramid, Etana, Denroy Morgan, Mermans Mosengo, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zak Starkey -son of Ringo Starr and drummer of the group The Who-, among others.
One of the milestones of this concert is that it will reunite the original members of the band that accompanied Tosh in his first years of his solo career. Word, Sound and Power, who last played together at the Reggae SuperJam in 1983.
So after 33 years will come together again on a Fully Fullwood stage, Carlton “Santa” Davis, Steve Golding, Mikey Chung, Robbie Lynn y Donald Kinsey, a true delight for reggae lovers.
The museum
Those who attend the Peter Tosh museum will be able to see some of the most representative elements of his career there., perhaps one of the most important is the M16 guitar, designed by a teenager 15 years and that he gave it to him in 1983 after a concert in California.
His traditional unicycle will also be on display. (or inicycle as he called it) which he used to use to enter the stages at his concerts or even to move through the streets of Jamaica.
You can also see a nunchaku there. (Peter was a great follower and practitioner of martial arts), various microphones used in his recordings and in his concerts, and a series of various artifacts, As commented by the CEO of Pulse - the company that promoted the museum together with Tosh's family -, Kingsley Cooper.
