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A Night of Reggae Legends @ Dub Club

wednesday April 1 Dub Club Presents a Night of Reggae Legends!
with Triston Palma and Michael Palmer
backed by Cualli (full band with horn section)
and guest selector Clive Chin
$15
$10 before 10pm
at the Echoplex 1154 Glendale in Echo Park, LA

TRISTON PALMA
For over twenty years, Triston Palma has been delighting listeners around the world with his sweet voice and cultural vibes. Though reggae has gone through many changes since the '70s, Triston has endured, always staying true to roots and culture. He has given reggae one of its biggest dancehall anthems, "Entertainment," which still rams the dance whenever it is played, and he has scored hits around the world up to this day.

Triston Palma was born in 1962 in Waltham Park, Kingston 13, Jamaica. By the time he was just ten years old, he was singing backing vocals for Sugar Minott and Tony Tuff, as well as singing with Earl "Chinna" Smith's Soul Syndicate band. Throughout his teens, Triston's reputation as a sweet voiced vocalist continued to grow, culminating in his breakout performance in 1979 at the General Penitentiary Memorial Concert for Claudie Massop, which also featured Bob Marley. Around the same time, Triston started his own label, Black Solidarity, with Ossie Thomas. His first big hit on the label was "A-Class Girl," which was followed by "I'm Ready," "Susan," "What A Bubbling," and "Spliff Tale." All of these tunes were number one hits on the Jamaican charts.

As the '80s began, the best was yet to come. Jah Thomas, who had been residing in England, came over to Jamaica to check out the young singer everyone was talking about. Their association led to one of the biggest dancehall hits of all time: the aforementioned "Entertainment." Triston recorded over thirty more tunes for Jah Thomas in the early '80s, including "Give Me A Chance" and "Joker Smoker." At one point, Triston had nine songs in Jamaica's Top 40 at the same time, and this was before he had even reached the age of twenty!

MICHAEL PALMER
Michael Palmer is a veteran dancehall singer rarely seen in California . He started his career singing on General Echo's Stereophonic Sound System. He had several huge hits hits in Jamaica in the 80's , such as "Lickshot" , "Ready me Ready" , and "Smoke the Weed".

CLIVE CHIN
The Dub Club presents legendary reggae producer Clive Chin selecting vinyl hits from Randy's studio with an accompanying Power Point multi-media demonstration,TEACH THE YOUTH.
Prolific reggae producer Clive Chin ranks as one of Jamaican music's greatest unsung heroes. While working at the family business, Randy's Record Store and its upstairs studio known as Randy's Studio 17, Chin facilitated seminal recordings by the '70s top reggae performers and producers: (Bob Marley &) the Wailers, Tommy McCook, Alton Ellis, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Lee Perry and Black Uhuru.

Designed as sonic and visual outline of his experiences in Jamaican music, TEACH THE YOUTH recreates the essence of the seminal reggae era.