published: Monday | October 13, 2008 Richie Stephens Guest speaker Clyde McKenzie pointed out that yesterday's launch of Richie Stephens' Come to Jamaica at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre, Hope Road, St Andrew, was a "different approach" - and it was. Although the album was central to the whole affair, Stephens organised a 'Jamaica Sinting' to celebrate the country's culture in a family setting, the fife and drums of a Jonkanoo band and the squeals of scampering children as they fled before the approach of the various characters, a backdrop to the official launch proceedings. It is all here And when he spoke, Stephens pointed out that "who don't know a folk band, mento band, Jonkanoo, it is all here". A full scale concert was held in the evening, with Stephens performing some of the tracks from Come to Jamaica, as...
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