{"id":113649,"date":"2015-05-18T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingston12.net\/?p=113649"},"modified":"2015-05-18T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T23:30:20","slug":"summerjam-celebrates-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2015\/05\/18\/summerjam-celebrates-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"SummerJam Celebrates 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

An earlier article on this platform reference Reggae on the River<\/em> \u2013 schedule for the end July in beautiful Humboldt County, California. This festival is celebrating its 31st staging this summer. Another reggae festival that is truly worth noting this year is SummerJam: The Everlasting Festival<\/em> \u2013 scheduled for July 3 thru 5 in Cologne, Germany. Like Reggae on the River, SummerJam is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
\nThose of us who are close to both the festival and reggae music industries cannot begin to describe the challenges and \u201ctribulations\u201d that is involve with planning and keeping a reggae music festival going for ten years. Therefore, we hope that readers of this article will agree that the organizers of these two events truly deservers our \u201cStanding Ovation\u201d.
\nThis year SummerJam organizer, Klaus Maack<\/a><\/strong> gave it the deserving sub-title \u2013 The Everlasting Festival \u2013 a name truly earned. Known to his friends and colleagues in the festival industry ‘Daddy Maack’, Klaus is head of Contour Music<\/strong> – a company that seeks to introduce his fellow Germans to a multiple faceted music industry via live performances. In an interview with the e-magazine Reggaeville<\/a><\/strong>, Klaus noted that a big part of his inspiration to plan the first festival was Reggae Sunsplash<\/strong>.
\n

\"Beres<\/a>
Beres Hammond<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHis very first festival included artists like Black Uhuru, The Wailers Band, Manu Dibango<\/strong>, the late Dennis Brown<\/strong> and Gill Scott-Heron<\/strong>.
\nWhen the stage is lit this year Cologne will welcome a wide spectrum of artists ranging from Damian Marley, Steel Pulse, Soja, Chris Martin<\/strong> and Jessie Royal<\/strong> to super stars like Beres Hammond<\/strong> and Wyclef Jean<\/strong>.
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\nDetails on this year\u2019s festival are posted at www.summerjam.de
\nContact info at:
\nContour Festival Organization GmbH
\nAlexanderstr. 78
\nD-70182 Stuttgart
\nTel: +49711238 50 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An earlier article on this platform reference Reggae on the River \u2013 schedule for the end July in beautiful Humboldt County, California. This festival is celebrating its 31st staging this summer. 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