{"id":5806,"date":"2025-08-14T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/marcia-griffiths-joins-beres-hammond-cham-for-reggae-magic-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:58:17","slug":"marcia-griffiths-joins-beres-hammond-cham-for-reggae-magic-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/marcia-griffiths-joins-beres-hammond-cham-for-reggae-magic-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Griffiths joins Beres Hammond, Cham for reggae magic this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reggae icon Marcia Griffiths, now celebrating an incredible 61 years in music, will share the stage with Beres Hammond, Cham, and Lady Da Flame for this weekend’s Beres Hammond & Friends concert series in the Tri-State area. <\/span><\/p>\n

The shows are set for Saturday, Aug. 16, at NJPAC in Newark, NJ, and Sunday, Aug. 17, at the Coney Island Amphitheater in Brooklyn. <\/span><\/p>\n

“For the ‘Queen of Reggae,’ it’s a heartfelt reunion with a city and audience that have embraced her for decades,” New York-based, Jamaican-born entertainment publicist Anthony “ER Guru” told <\/span>Caribbean Life<\/span><\/strong> on Tuesday, Aug. 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

Griffiths said, “I have a very special love for my audience in New York. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about them that I look forward to meeting.” <\/span><\/p>\n

She said her friendship with Beres Hammond runs deep. <\/span><\/p>\n

“That’s a very special person to me,” Griffiths said. “I believe I knew him in another life.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re always laughing nonstop,” she added. “I often wonder how he writes lyrics that match things I’m experiencing without even knowing.”<\/span><\/p>\n

With Cham bringing dancehall heat, Hammond delivering his signature lovers’ rock soul, and Griffiths adding her timeless reggae elegance, “the concerts promise to be a rich celebration of Jamaican music across eras,” Turner said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Griffiths’s mission has always been clear: “If you can touch the soul with the music, then you know that the mission is accomplished.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reggae icon Marcia Griffiths, now celebrating an incredible 61 years in music, will share the stage with Beres Hammond, Cham, and Lady Da Flame for this weekend’s Beres Hammond & Friends concert series in the Tri-State area. The shows are set for Saturday, Aug. 16, at NJPAC in Newark, NJ, and Sunday, Aug. 17, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}