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Different & Dynamic. Bigga, Brighta, Betta! Volume 11 • Number 04 • February 22, 2017 • Website: www.CaribbeanGraphic.ca
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ACAA Honours Caribbean Camera's Anthony Joseph The Caribbean Camera's President and Publisher-Editor, Anthony Joseph will be one of fifteen recipients at the 2017 African Canadian Achievement Awards' (ACAA) 32nd Annual Gala. The Gala will be held on February 25 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, (inside the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts), 27 Front Street, East, Toronto. Joseph will be honoured as the 2017 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Media. The selection committee of the ACAA chose Joseph for the
award for the “achievements and accomplishments he has attained” as president and publisher of The Caribbean Camera newspaper and ” for his services and contribution to the Caribbean-Canadian, BlackCanadian and African-Canadian communities, and to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) , Ontario and Canada.” The ACAA, established in June, 1985, has recognised and paid tribute to over 400 highachieving African Canadians.
Lost Bob Marley Tapes Found And Restored A collection of severely damaged Bob Marley tapes, which had lain forgotten for more than four decades in a London hotel basement, has been successfully restored. The 13 reel-to-reel, analogue master tapes were found more than a year ago in a damp cardboard box in a run-down hotel in north-west London where Marley and the Wailers stayed in the mid-1970s during their European tours. The tapes were originally thought to be beyond repair, largely due to water damage.But after more than 12 months of meticulous effort using the latest audio techniques, the master reels have been restored, with the sound quality said to be enough to “send shivers down one's spine.” The tapes are the original live recordings of Marley's concerts in London and Paris between 1974 and 1978, and feature some of his most famous tracks including, Jammin, Exodus, I Shot the Sheriff,
and No Woman No Cry. Performed at the Lyceum in London (1975), the Hammersmith Odeon (1976), and the Rainbow, also in London (1977), as well as at the Pavilion de Paris (1978), the concerts were recorded live on the only mobile, 24track studio vehicle in England at the time, which was on loan from the Rolling Stones. The tapes were salvaged by Marley fan and London businessman Joe Gatt, who had received a call from a friend saying he had found what appeared to be some old Marley tape recordings. He passed the master recordings to business partner and jazz singer Louis Hoover, who initially believed they were too far gone to be restored. Fortunately he was proved wrong, but ownership of “the lost masters” was not immediately clear.