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New York Post
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Dead and Company announce three Golden Gate Park shows. Get tickets now
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. The Dead are returning to their birthplace. From Aug. 1-3, Dead and Company will headline three huge back-to-back-to-back concerts at San Francisco's Polo Field in the iconic Golden Gate Park to celebrate their 60th anniversary. According to a press release 'fans can look forward to an incredible series of performances, featuring unique sets by Dead & Company each night.' Advertisement In addition to delivering different songs at all three gigs, Bob Weir, John Mayer and co. will be joined by a new opening guest every evening. On Friday, Aug. 1, Billy Strings will handle opening duties. The next night, Sturgill 'Johnny Blue Skies' Simpson takes over. Finally, the Trey Anastasio Band featuring Phish's frontman closes things out on Sunday, August 3. These shows come on the heels of the Rock Hall of Fame group's second residency at Las Vegas Sphere (which followed their alleged 2023 retirement). At their most recent gig, they played 18 songs including fan favorites like 'Casey Jones,' 'Scarlet Begonias' and 'Fire on the Mountain' as well as a few Bob Dylan covers and their take on Jimmy Cliff's reggae classic 'The Harder They Come.' If you'd like to catch this one-of-a-kind live show featuring Weir, Mayer, Mickey Hart, bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and drummer Jay Lane, tickets can be yours as soon as today. Advertisement Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming Dead and Company shows on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the three Golden Gate Park shows is Friday, May 30. Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event. Dead and Company Golden Gate Park tickets 2025 A complete calendar including all Dead and Company Golden Gate Park show dates, special guests and links to buy tickets can be found below. Advertisement Dead and Company special guests As noted above, the classic rockers are sharing the stage with a number of sonically adventurous icons in their own right over the three-night stint. In the off chance you're not familiar with their work, here's each artist's most streamed song on Spotify (and information about their tours): Dead and Company set list Advertisement At their first show back at Sphere after the 2024 run, Dead and Company played 18 songs. For a closer look, you can find them below, courtesy of Set List FM. Set I 01.) 'Gimme Some Lovin'' (The Spencer Davis Group cover) (Live debut by D&C) 02.) 'Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo' (Grateful Dead cover) 03.) 'Bertha' (Grateful Dead cover) 04.) 'New Speedway Boogie' (Grateful Dead cover) 05.) 'Brown-Eyed Women' (Grateful Dead cover) 06.) 'Good Lovin'' (The Olympics cover) 07.) 'Don't Ease Me In' (Henry Thomas cover) Set II 08.) 'Feel Like a Stranger' (Grateful Dead cover) 09.) 'Scarlet Begonias' (Grateful Dead cover) 10.) 'Fire on the Mountain' (Grateful Dead cover) 11.) 'Terrapin Station' (Grateful Dead cover) 12.) 'Drums' (Grateful Dead cover) 13.) 'Space' (Grateful Dead cover) 14.) 'Standing on the Moon' (Grateful Dead cover) 15.) 'Althea' (Grateful Dead cover) 16.) 'Going Down the Road Feeling Bad' ([traditional] cover) 17.) 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' (Bob Dylan cover) Dead Forever Video Clip (Featuring Phil Lesh) 18.) 'Touch of Grey' (Grateful Dead cover) Dead and Company members The latest iteration of the long-running band will feature these six music vets: Bob Weir rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals (2015–) (Grateful Dead 1965–1995) Mickey Hart – percussion, drums (2015–) (Grateful Dead 1967–71; 1974–1995) John Mayer – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals (2015–) Jeff Chimenti – keyboards, backing vocals (2015–2023) Oteil Burbridge – bass, percussion, backing and lead vocals (2015–) Jay Lane – drums (2023–) (occasional sub for Kreutzmann 2021–2022) Original Grateful Dead member Bill Kreutzmann is sitting out this round of shows. Phil Lesh passed away Oct. 25 at 84-years-old. Huge jam bands on tour in 2025 Weir, Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia essentially created the template for freewheeling, improvisatory rock back in the '60s. Advertisement Over the years, many acts have followed their lead and created their own version of the 'no two set lists are the same' spectacle. Here are just five of our anything goes favorites you won't want to miss live this year. • Phish • Dave Matthews Band Advertisement • Goose • String Cheese Incident • Widespread Panic Who else is out and about this year? Check out our list of all the biggest classic rockers on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. Advertisement This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
New York Times
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Jamaican Homes That Showcase the Island's Creative History
BY THE TIME Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, a number of the sugar plantation owners there had moved on, but the island remained a refuge for a certain type of English expat: literary, artistic, wealthy. The 'James Bond' author Ian Fleming and the composer and playwright Noël Coward, among others, built elegant beachside or mountaintop estates at a far remove from the nation's rising tide of Pan-African Rastafarianism. Though Perry and Sally Henzell were born on the island to parents with British roots, they chose a different path. Perry, who died in 2006 at 70, was the son of a plantation manager. He left as a teenager to study in England and later worked for the BBC in London before returning home to help set up the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. About a decade later, he directed and produced the seminal 1972 feature 'The Harder They Come,' starring the musician and actor Jimmy Cliff, which helped bring reggae and Jamaican culture to a global audience. When he married Sally Densham, a 22-year-old farmer's daughter from Mandeville in the country's interior in 1965, she had recently returned to Jamaica from a job dressing windows at Selfridges in London. She wound up art directing and costuming 'The Harder They Come,' as well as developing an interior design practice and eventually creating Jakes Hotel, the family's ever-evolving, unassumingly stylish 32-year-old resort in Treasure Beach, on the island's southern coast. That enclave, mostly designed by Sally, is both geographically and spiritually far from the all-inclusive clamor of Negril and Montego Bay — a mélange of Jamaican, Moroccan and Indian influences, touched by the spirit of the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. DESPITE THE COUPLE'S deep imprint on the local culture and its music industry, their greatest legacy may be the family homes Sally created over the decades. She first stumbled on the 1,800-square-foot Itopia (the name is her play on the word 'utopia'), a cut-limestone manor built in the 1660s in the hills above Runaway Bay on the northern coast, 60 miles from Kingston, the capital, soon after 'The Harder They Come' was released. At the time, Perry, Sally and their two children, Jason and Justine, were living in Kingston, in a complex that included their home, Perry's production studio and Sally's workshop. But when she saw the elegantly ramshackle three-bedroom house with a free-standing, one-bedroom annex on three and a quarter acres, she says, she 'knew at that moment it was mine.' Built as part of the Cardiff Hall plantation, the property had fallen into near ruin; chickens and the odd goat wandered through the living room. After buying it in the early 1970s, the Henzells began making it habitable. Sally scraped back centuries of paint with a machete, to the point where the walls of the peaked-ceiling living room resembled an Abstract Expressionist canvas. 'I suddenly looked around,' says Sally, 'and said, 'Don't do more! We're living in a painting.'' They moved in in 1975, but the house wasn't wired for electricity until 1991. ('I wouldn't have wires dangling down in that venerable house. And we couldn't afford to do it properly then,' she says.) At first, running water arrived only from a single tap in the garden. Furniture came over time — an Indian metal table from Perry's family in Trinidad, a neo-Classical mahogany sideboard from Antigua, a desk once owned by Marcus Garvey, an oil painting by the Cuban artist Roberto Fabelo. The couple nurtured the garlic vines that draped the weather-stained exterior and placed vintage metal garden furniture on the porticos. Despite its roughness, the house became a social epicenter, filled with visiting artists and musicians, among them Joe Cocker and Marianne Faithfull. Joni Mitchell spent a couple of weeks with them in the mid-1980s. 'She said, 'Would you mind if I painted your wall?'' says Sally, who provided most of the materials. She didn't have any yellow paint, so Mitchell went down to the main street, where workers were repainting the lines in the road, says Sally, and asked if she could borrow some for a mural — still visible behind the bed in the primary bedroom — of faces and Chinese characters. For decades, Sally wrote poetry, took photographs and designed residences for clients, and Perry worked on a second film, 'No Place Like Home,' which was released only after his death. The family shuttled between Itopia and a rustic weekend cottage Sally's father had built in 1941 in secluded Treasure Beach, the closest spit of sand to the family home in Mandeville. (Alex Haley borrowed it from them to finish writing his 1976 novel, 'Roots.') After their father died in 1991, Sally and her sister, June Gay Pringle, sold the homestead in Mandeville; Sally used the money to buy another small house on a neighboring Treasure Beach plot. Although neither she nor Perry was, she says, 'ever very good at business,' he encouraged Sally to open Jakes — named after the family's pet parrot. They added structures over the years, and Chris Blackwell, the British-born music impresario who, like the Henzells, had grown up on the island, helped them market it under his collection of Jamaican boutique lodgings, which also includes Fleming's house, GoldenEye. After Perry's death, Jason, now 55, who runs the family business, convinced Sally it was time to build a house of her own on the Treasure Beach compound. 'It was such a wonderful, cathartic idea,' she says, 'for me, with my grief, to start again.' She named it Bohemia because Perry's ancestors had come from that region of Eastern Europe, and had the outside painted magenta. The two-bedroom, 1,800-square-foot house is decorated with her signature offhand élan, with bits of sculptural driftwood, shells, coins and beachcombed glass bottles. Stuffed with books and mementos — a small watercolor of a palm tree given to the couple by a hotel guest, posters from their films, framed black-and-white family photos — with generations of feral cats wandering about, the place reflects her own barefoot trajectory. To take advantage of the sea breezes, there are few interior walls. The main bedroom upstairs is inspired, Sally says, by her romantic vision of an opium den, with textile-covered beds and divans scattered about. (One small bed, against a whitewashed paneled wall, features a diaphanous apricot-colored printed muslin from India draped like a canopy from the ceiling.) Another room is swathed in African fabrics given to her by Blackwell, whose wife, Mary Vinson, collected them. As the afternoon begins to fade, a guest staying in one of the Henzells' villas up the road quietly enters and crosses the living room in a bathing suit and towel. 'Just ignore me,' she says gaily as she exits toward the beach. It feels perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the house that Sally has encouraged the woman to take a shortcut through her home — the sun throwing patterns on the smooth concrete floors, a tangle of wild cats splayed out in the shadows — to reach the golden sand.
USA Today
11-03-2025
- Health
- USA Today
Jamaican artist Cocoa Tea dies: Reggae singer was 65
Jamaican artist Cocoa Tea dies: Reggae singer was 65 Show Caption Hide Caption What you need to know about the rise of walking pneumonia cases The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued an alert over the surge in cases of walking pneumonia in children younger than 5 years old. News 12 Cocoa Tea, a celebrated reggae singer and songwriter, has died. He was 65. "I extend condolences to the family, friends, and supporters of Calvin George Scott, affectionately known as Cocoa Tea," Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness wrote in a post on Instagram Tuesday. "His smooth vocals and compelling lyrics gave us timeless classics like 'Rocking Dolly' and 'I Lost My Sonia,' songs that have become anthems in our cultural landscape," Holness wrote. His wife, Malvia Scott, confirmed to the Jamaica Gleaner, the country's paper of record, that the singer had died following a cardiac arrest early Tuesday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Born in the Rocky Point neighborhood of Clarendon, Jamaica, Scott rose to popularity on the island first before his fame began growing internationally in the '90s. Known for songs like "Lost My Sonia" and "Rocking Dolly," his signature sounds blended breezy slow-grooving vocals with socially conscious lyricism. 50 years later, 'The Harder They Come' remains a touchstone moment for Jamaica and reggae He was first diagnosed with lymphoma in 2019, which worsened when he began battling pneumonia six months ago, his wife told the Gleaner. "He was definitely very brave," Malvia Scott told the outlet. "He was positive throughout it all. About three weeks ago when he was admitted in the hospital he asked if I was worried and I said 'I am always worried.' He told me not to worry because everything was going to be all right. He was always very hopeful." That positive outlook could be seen throughout his discography as he leaned heavily on themes of love and peace − both also important tenets to Rastafarianism, a religion he joined in 1985. "Beyond his musical genius, Cocoa Tea was a beacon of kindness and generosity, consistently uplifting the less fortunate and embodying the warmth of our nation," Holness said in his statement. "Cocoa Tea's influence extended beyond our shores, touching hearts worldwide and solidifying Jamaica's place on the global musical stage."
