\u201cReggae Kings\u201d Beres Hammond and Beenieman will share stage together across two nights in the tri-state area, according to Jamaican entertainment publicist Anthony \u201cER Guru\u201d Turner.<\/p>\n
Turner told <\/span>Caribbean Life on Monday, Aug. 17, that the \u201cKings\u201d will perform in Hartford, CT on Friday, Aug. 28, before heading to Newark, NJ the next day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Turner said the performances are part of the Reggae In Action tour, brought to the region by Jammins Events.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAug. 28 happens to be Beres Hammond’s birthday,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, the Peoples Bank Arena crowd will be helping one of reggae’s most enduring voices celebrate another major milestone. <\/span> \u201cFor Dancehall King Beenie Man, the Newark gig carries its own weight. It will be Beenieman’s first time ever playing Prudential Center, and he’s doing it next to musical big brother for years,\u201d Turner added. \u201cIf you didn’t know better, you’d think these two didn’t belong on the same bill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBeres Hammond has spent his career doing things the quiet way,\u201d he continued, stating that Hammond is \u201cthe voice behind \u2018Rockaway\u2019 and \u2018One Love, One Life,\u2019 songs that never needed a chart position to prove themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBeres is not a performer who can energize a crowd,\u201d he said. \u201cHe builds it, patiently, until the whole room is right there with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Turner said Beenieman works from the opposite end of the spectrum entirely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEver since he broke through in the ’90s and introduced himself to American audiences, with \u2018Who Am I\u2019 back in 1997, he’s made a career out of pure, unfiltered dancehall force,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGive him a stage and a few minutes, and he owns the building,\u201d Turner added. \u201cNobody calls him the \u2018King of Dancehall\u2019 as a courtesy. And yet, somehow, put the two of them together and it just clicks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Turner said one brings \u201cthe calm; the other brings the fire, and the combination feels less like a mismatched pairing and more like the full picture of what Jamaican music can be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n George Crooks, the promoter behind the tour at Jammins Events, doesn’t hesitate when he talks about the pairing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou can’t get a more entertaining show than Beres Hammond\/Beenieman,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are two legendary artistes with lots of hit songs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe are expecting people from all over,\u201d Crooks added. \u201cNew York, Philadelphia, Boston, Rhode Island and Delaware \u2013 people in those areas love both artistes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n For Newark, Turner said that regional draw adds even more weight to an already historic night \u2014 Beenieman’s Prudential Center debut, with Beres standing right beside him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut Hartford gets its own kind of magic first: a birthday show, one night early, where the crowd isn’t just there for the hits; they’re there to celebrate the man behind them,\u201d Turner said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cReggae Kings\u201d Beres Hammond and Beenieman will share stage together across two nights in the tri-state area, according to Jamaican entertainment publicist Anthony \u201cER Guru\u201d Turner. Turner told Caribbean Life on Monday, Aug. 17, that the \u201cKings\u201d will perform in Hartford, CT on Friday, Aug. 28, before heading to Newark, NJ the next day.\u00a0 Turner […]<\/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-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}