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House of David Gang
House of David Gang performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Sunday, July 31st at Queen’s Park.
Now featuring a new generation of talented artists alongside founding members King Selah and Collin “Jahlin” Edwards, House of David Gang is Canada’s busiest touring reggae band. Rooted in the timeless tradition of Jamaican roots reggae from the [...]
Progress
Progress performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Queen’s Park.
Progress’s music is a reflection of his life experiences and his faith. Progress is known for his socially relevant lyrics and his explosive live shows. Progress although learning his craft in the Caribbean has a distinct Toronto flavor to his music. [...]
Likkle More
Likkle More performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Monday, August 1st at Queen’s Park
Likkle More is the brainchild of the band’s lead singers and sisters, Natalie and Marsha Hayle. Their messages and sound is fused with rich groove and soul and brings a truly honest and authentic roots reggae vibe! Their genuine [...]
Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae
Sunday, July 31st – 9:30PM
The documentary tells the story of the Rocksteady era (1966-69), considered by music experts to be the golden age of Jamaican music. A blend of ska, soul and R&B, Rocksteady developed the buoyant rhythms, prominent bass line, beautiful vocals and socially conscious lyrics that became Reggae. Forty years after Rocksteady’s peak, [...]
Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley’s 60th Birthday
Saturday, July 30th – 9:30PM
Africa Unite is a singular and masterfully executed film by Stephanie Black that is at once concert tribute, Marley family travelogue, and humanitarian documentary, igniting the screen with the spirit of world-renowned reggae icon BOB MARLEY in its every frame. In commemoration of Bob’s 60th birthday, Africa Unite is centered on [...]
I Brilliance
I Brilliance performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival at Queen’s Park, date TBA.
I Brilliance is a multi-talented Jamaican Canadian artist born Kareem Green in Toronto. He started his career as a DJ spinning reggae, funk, hip hop and pop recordings. Even as a pre-teen, I Brilliance showed great skill in selecting old school roots [...]
Donna Makeda
Donna Makeda performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Sunday, July 31st at Queen’s Park
Donna Makeda started singing and performing 25 years ago, her foundation in music came from the church, which she attended when she was a little girl. Donna started out as a dancer; she was trained in Afro-Caribbean Dance, Modern [...]
Leftfield Keele
Leftfield Keele performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
Born Kyle Leigh Barrowclough, better known as Keele, always had a Left Field perspective through out his life. Originally born in Toronto, Canada, Keele moved to Connecticut at the tender age of three. It was there he would be introduced [...]
Chach
Chach performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
Growing up in a culturally diverse area in Toronto’s west end is what Chach says attributed to her unique sound and style. Singing and writing songs from as early as 6, she knew her life path was in music. Writing everything [...]
J. Melody
J. Melody performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
Many are now discovering the music of this young soon to be chart topper, J. Melody, the work of a musical genius. By writing R&B ballads that paint pictures with every breath, it is as if he was making music [...]
AHI
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AHI performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
Ahkinoah Habah Izarh, simply known as AHI (pronounced “I”) is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Brampton, Ontario, to Christian parents from the islands of Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica. In one word, AHI’s music is “wholehearted.” His [...]
Empress Divine
Empress Divine performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Queen’s Park.
Empress Divine is a multi-talented soulful songstress who is inspired by her love of Reggae and R&B music to write songs that touches her listeners. At the age of eight she had a passion for music and wasn’t afraid to [...]
Papa Levy
Papa Levy performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Queen’s Park
Phillip Levy, a.k.a. Papa Levy, started singing in church at a very young age; he continued to perform in school concerts and talent shows. As the years went by, opportunity struck in the 1990s with his very first performance at [...]
Hollis Baptiste
Hollis Alexis Baptiste is a Toronto-based sociopolitical urban realist, born in Trinidad in 1962. This much talked about artist is known for his imaginative use of found objects (steel, rubber, wood etc.), which he constructs into masks and freestanding sculptures.
Exhibit will be on display at Toronto City Hall Rotunda July 29th to August 1st, 7:30am [...]
Mayou
Mayou performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
“Don’t just spin the wheel, reinvent it” —Mayou
Mayou, a creation of Gatineau, Quebec is the holder of a strong, moving and spectacular voice. This singer not only brings sentiment and true passion to the table but also possesses a stunning image [...]
SoJay
SoJay performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
Refreshingly familiar yet distinctively new, “Her voice reminds me of an untamed, raw version of Nora Jones…before she went pop. Her voice has a raspy edge, clearly soulful, smooth like the calm before the storm yet powerful like the storm when [...]
Dahlia
Dahlia performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Monday, August 1st at Queen’s Park
Dahlia opens the window to her soul as she sings from the heart about her passion for love and her views on life learning experiences. She started singing and acting in Sunday school concerts and plays as she grew up in [...]
URV
U.R.V. performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
“If I myself don’t believe I am destined for recognition and success, then how can I make you or the rest of the world believe so. I once dreamed a dream, I’m fanatical about it and I trust myself that I [...]
Simone Frank
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Simone Frank was born in Toronto. She been exhibiting her visual art in Toronto, the GTA, Tokyo and also in St. Vincent, W.I. where her family is from. Her work has been published in Anonymous Cheese 2006, Word Magazine 2002 and Litté Realité in 1998. She received a Bachelor of Applied [...]
King Ujah
King Ujah performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Sunday, July 31st at Queen’s Park
Since King Ujah released his debut album Beauty for Ashes in 2004, and his sophomore album Glorify the King in 2009, he has been receiving extensive airplay in Canada, and internationally. In 2007 and 2008 King Ujah was awarded “Top [...]
Chris Rouse
CHRiS ROuSE performs at the TD IRIE Music Festival on Saturday, July 30th at Yonge-Dundas Square
Well known from domestic to international audiences for his talents as vocalist, musician, arranger and producer, CHRiS ROuSE now moves from his incarnation as group member for Warner USA recording artists Othello into the solo arena. Currently strutting on the [...]