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This is the only moment of the year you’re happy that time flies. After days and days on the road all the way from Finland, when finally we turn on the small dirty road that leads to the Harp in the middle of Montelago Celtic Festival plane, we feel at home. It is not only the music. Not only the lovely market. And not even the endless thematic activities hosted in the festival area. It is the friendship. The community that year after year strength up. Hugs shared with your Montelago brothers and sisters, that same people that year after year notice how much your kids have grown and are eager to share the news of their lives and listen to yours. And of course the excitement of waiting for the bands playing from the three different stages, the need to jump and dance and sing along to let out all the joy to be here once again. WELCOME TO MONTELAGO CELTIC 2019!

Hello People ! Its less than a month to the biggest European Reggae Festival, Rototom Sunsplash in Benicassim ! We can't wait to be there for the 3rd time this year. In the meanwhile lets just try to re-live again some nice vibes though the photos and the video we made last year ! Enjoy :) See you soon Rototom !!!

For the first time this year, we got to cover Rastaplas, one of the many reggae festivals happening in the Netherlands.  The festival is two days long and situated on a beach, in the west side of the country in Zoetermeer.  The first day of the 16th edition of Rastaplas opened its gates with the dutch band Frontliners, and closed it with the powerful roots reggae Dezarie from the Virgin Island.  When we got to the festival we were “welcomed” by the Jamaican Utan Green, followed by the New Kingston straight from the US, which in my opinion are the cutest thing ever since the band is formed by three bothe rs and their dad, and last  but not least our favorite twins Mellow Mood from Italy Around 19:30 people started gathering around the main stage, while Reggae Barbie (main stage host) kept the vibes alive with her awesome Dj skills while the twins were doing soundcheck, the more we got close to the actual show time the more people gathered al...

The Tuska weekend has been closed by an amazing after party at on the rocks a venue in the center of Helsinki. The band closing the Tuska 2019 journey were DIRT and our lovely boys Shiraz Lane. I have to say there couldn't have been a better choice for closing this amazing weekend. As some may recall we saw Shiraz Lane for the first time last year in Tuska Festival and a few months after  in Kouvola (you can read the article here), and I have kind of been anxiously waiting to get a chance to see them again. Shiraz Lane is a band that never leaves you, somehow it gives your peace, and some lyrics can apply pretty easily to almost everyone's lives. Im so happy they crossed our path and that I got to see them last year and made their music a part of my life.  We cant wait to see and hear what the future has for this amazing boys. Photos & Article : Gaia Putrino 

The 2019 edition of the Bababoom reggae festival, is getting closer and closer only 19 nights until the beginning of a week full of music and night walk on the beach. When : from July the 13th to July the 20th  Where : In Fermo  About the line up : there will be 4 stages and On the main stage, we will have :  Costa Klan Johnny Marsiglia Do Your Thang FEA Lion D Raphael Bunna Adriano Bono Wicked Dub Division & Michela Grena Forelock & Arawak Shakalab Morgan Heritage Jemere Morgan Acsel & The Reggae Rebel Band Mahout Sud Sound System Johnny Osbourne Naaman La Banda di Montepacini On the Dub area : Mungo’s Hi Fi & Eva Lazarus King Shiloh Sound System Channel One Paolo Baldini Dub Files meets LO, Jules I & Jacob Double Spliff Sound System  I-Tal Soup ft. Junior Dread Dennis Capra ft. Danman Black Omolo Shashemane SoulJahs  On the Beach Yard : Shabadà Sound System Astarbene     ...

People in Germany !  Yesterday the biggest event of Afro-diasporic street dance culture in Germany has started ; and it will go on until the 2nd of June, in  Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt in Berlin.  Tonight, actually in about 40 minutes, there will be a CDC conference with the professor Donne P. Hope who is back at CDC for the second time. Donna is a professor at the university of the west Indies (Kingston, JAM) found of the dancehall archive and  research initiative and author of many publications which can be considered milestones in the field.  From the instagram stories on the CDC account feels like the event is an amazing thing, and I hope next year RQL will be able to join the event physically, but in the meanwhile we will enjoy it from here.

Hello People ! Still a few months to go before Rototom Sunsplash will start again, so why not bringing it closer by sharing a nice interview from last year's edition ?!  Here we are with the interview we had with Julian Marley, yes one of the legend Bob Marley's son. Fun fact : Julian has been the first artist coming from outside Finland we interview, during his europen tour in 2016, in Sweden ; is fun to look back and see how far we have come.  So here it is ! Enjoy !  Bless Julian ! How were the vibes tonight ? Great vibes ! Overwehlming vibes of joy ! Was this your first time here in Rototom ? -It was the first time here in Spain, we played already in Rototom when it was in Italy. How it was to perform again in Rototom after such a long time ? -I enjoyed it like any other time. I played some new songs and it was so nice to see people react to them. We met two years ago after your gig in Stockholm. What happened since then? Have y...