May 14th : Reggae Legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Subatomic Sound System return to Danforth Music Hall

[Jay Funk Dawg]

Lee Scratch Perry & Subatomic Sound System return to Toronto on Sun. May 14th
+ Toronto Dub All-Stars & DJ Chocolate


 
Embrace in association with NuFunk Presents
Lee "Scratch" Perry + Subatomic Sound System
featuring Toronto Dub All-Stars / DJ Chocolate
Sunday, May 14th, 2017 7:00 PM DOORS
Danforth Music Hall - 147 Danforth Ave, Toronto
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Producer, mixer and Grammy-winning reggae dub artist, Lee “Scratch” Perry has been overturning tradition and confounding conventional wisdom for more than five decades. In the process, the widely acknowledged father of dub reggae became arguably the first creatively driven "artist-producer" in modern recorded music. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Perry on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

 

with 
Toronto Dub All-Stars
ft. members of Sattalites, Dream Band, House of David Gang & special guests.

A group specifically formed for this show, the Toronto Dub All-Stars features a mix of Toronto's top reggae and dub musicians.  The core band includes Sunray Grennan, vocalist/drummer Top Canadian Reggae Drummer, son of Winston Grennan (Jimmy Cliff, Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Bob Marley) inventor of the One-Drop, Rah Lion, lead vocalist (Dream Band), Fergus Hambleton, guitar/vocalist (Sattalites) Sam Weller, keyboards (Sattalites, House of David Gang), Bruce McGillivray, Bass (Sattalites), Jay Cleary, Guitar (House of David Gang) and special guest Papa Levy (nephew of Barrington Levy).

DJ Chocolate

DJ Chocolate, also known in legal circles as Lauren Speers, has been one of Toronto’s busiest reggae club, radio, concert and festival DJs for over 20 years, appearing alongside the likes of Beres Hammond, Gregory Isaacs, Damian and Stephen Marley, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Luciano, and as a jungle and dub music aficionado, with recording artists like Congo Natty and the Mad Professor. She is a fiery red-dreadlocked trailblazer who started Toronto’s premier urban and electronic vinyl mastering studio The Scratch Free Press in the late 1990s and ran the record-pressing plant Acme Vinyl Corporation, all while working towards her Master’s degree and teaching English, computers and music business classes at a local college.

Chocolate has been instrumental behind the scenes since 1994 in a multi-media capacity as well as on the decks. She has worked on music-based documentaries for the CBC, she has been hosting her popular local radio program Rebel Music since the 1990s, assisting in the founding/implementation of several yearly music festivals and eventually obtained a juris doctorate in law and became a lawyer, assisting many musical entities to make their dreams realities in countless ways. Her djing residencies include the renowned 10-year strong monthly Gathering at Thymeless (which she founded) and the popular live dub music monthly Bredren at the Painted Lady. Whether it’s in court, behind the wheels of steel at least once or twice a week making people dance with the unique blend of joyous conscious reggae goodness for which she is known, this tireless music mama is a dedicated team-player fully committed to spreading a message of positivity and good vibes...