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Through its unique programming, WFIT is your connection to the world, enhancing the quality of your life and available whenever you want it. Keeping that door open to the rest of the world is a significant task, one we could not accomplish without your support and help.

Without you, we would not be able to provide the innovative, informative, entertaining and educational programming that you have come to expect. Nor would we be able to take advantage of opportunities to expand and strengthen our commitment to provide quality communication services to you, the listeners of Florida 's Space and Treasure Coasts .

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Rebel Reggae - Monday 10pm-Tuesday 12am,

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George Reggae Barrett Celebrating another milestone 31 Years on Vancouver Coop radio 102.7 FM, 25 years on CITR 101.9 FM Radio Host Dj, Concert Promoter. Sound system Operator.

Born and raised in the oldest inland Town in Jamaica, Bath St Thomas, about 45 miles from Kingston. My passion for reggae music came at an early age. My home where my mother runs the family business was next door to Robert’s Night Club and Tavern. On the weekends they held big dances in the Night Club. As a boy, I could not go to the dances but I used go into the club and watch them string up the sound system before the dance starts. In the Tavern by day, Calypsonian Count Lasher used to grace the bar with his music. In those days I used to listen to sound systems such as Barlow Sound, Daddy Nick, Mellow Canary, Merry tone Disco, Danny Lou, and Phoenix the Ghost. About the age of 12, I decided to keep a kids dance in my back yard and I invited some of my friends. I used some of my mother’s Salt fish and Red Herring box as my equipment. I heat half inch steel iron on the fire and used it to burn marble size holes in one side of the Red Herrin box then I fill the holes with different colour marbles. Then I put lighted candles in the box so it would look just like and amplifier that I saw over at the club. For the speaker, I bore a lot of holes in the Salt fish box; I put two of my friends Ricky and Mickey in the box and I told them to sing out loud. Everyone was laughing to hear the boys sing. The first human speaker was invented.

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Reggae in the Fields is the longest-running reggae program in Canada and one of the longer-running community radio shows in the country.
Besides reggae (music, features and interviews), the show features bi-weekly Caribbean news, radio dramas (a staple of Jamaican radio) and open-line discussions on a variety of topics including community-police relations, religion, Rastafarianism, education and others.

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Through its unique programming, WFIT is your connection to the world, enhancing the quality of your life and available whenever you want it. Keeping that door open to the rest of the world is a significant task, one we could not accomplish without your support and help.

Without you, we would not be able to provide the innovative, informative, entertaining and educational programming that you have come to expect. Nor would we be able to take advantage of opportunities to expand and strengthen our commitment to provide quality communication services to you, the listeners of Florida 's Space and Treasure Coasts .

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Howard Carr

known to most people as Stretch, Howard Carr has been in the entertainment business most of his life, starting with lanamans children hour in Jamaica, sang with Viscounts band from May Pen until he migrated to Canada in 1969, still a lover of great music has maintained his love for caribbean music in 1982 embarked on a mission to push all genre of this music and expose the culture of the caribbean islands on CKUT 90.3fm every Saturday 4-7pm this program is well listened to as far as the Ottawa valley and into parts of New York state, right through to Swanton Vermont, and of course all of Montreal, this program has a weekly caribbean news and sports round up lots of interviews with the various movers and shakers of the city of Montreal, and of course entertainers, you can log on to www.ckut.ca

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Ras Klamps,Tony Gits,Mike Crevier,Neil Ellis,Speak about the new project "LONG JOURNEY"

Ras Klamps,Tony Gits,Mike Crevier

12-Freedom Song by tonygits

Roadside Productions began out of desperation. I was doing the hotel circuit in the North Coast of Jamaica.The work became scarce and gigs were few. I decided to hit the road, producing talented but poor Jamaican singers and dj's, and performing wherever there was work. During this journey I realized that I was always at the mercy of others, if they didn't hire me I would starve! It dawned on me that I needed to be self- reliant, I had to be in charge of my craft. Roadsidereggae.com is my emancipation, my vehicle to freedom. Freedom to write,to create, to play what I want to play, to keep reggae pure, to let my voice be heard.

THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS DIFFICULT TO ENTER IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BAG OF MONEY OR POWERFULL CONTACTS. IT IS LIKE THE BIBLICAL CLASH BETWEEN DAVID AND GOLIATH. THE INDEPENDENT MUSICIAN WHO WANTS TO SELL THEIR MUSIC FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE.
ON ONE OCCASION MY GUITAR WAS STOLEN IN DALLAS AND I WAS UNABLE TO WORK. I HAD NO OTHER SOURCE OF INCOME! I HAD IN A BOX ONE THOUSAND COPIES OF MY ALBUM "GIVE JAH THE PRAISE". I TRIED TO GET THE LOCAL RECORD RETAILERS TO PLACE IT IN THEIR STORES. THE BIG CHAINS SAID "NO" BECAUSE I DID NOT BELONG TO ANY ESTABLISHED RECORD COMPANY. A FEW OF THE SMALLER STORES WOULD AGREE TO PLACE MY MUSIC IN THEIR STORE BUT ONLY ON THE BOTTOM SHELF! I BECAME ACUTELY AWARE THAT THE INDEPENDENT ROUTE, WHERE THE ARTIST IS IN CONTROL, WAS NOT GOING TO BE AN EASY ONE.

I BEGAN TO SELL MY MUSIC ON THE ROAD, WALKING AROUND WITH A BOX OF RECORDS, APPROACHING ANYONE WHO LOOKED LIKE THEY WOULD BUY! I SOLD EVERY ONE OF THEM OVER A PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS! I HAVE REMAINED INDEPENDENT EVER SINCE! IT HAS BEEN A SLOW AND OFTEN FRUSTRATING WAY TO GO BUT I SEE NO OTHER CHOICE..

ROADSIDE PRODUCTIONS UNDERSTANDS THE TRIALS THAT FACE THE INDEPENDENT ARTIST. WE ARE WILLING TO PROMOTE GOOD MUSIC ON OUR SITE TO GIVE UNKNOWN MUSICIANS A FORUM IN WHICH TO PLACE THEIR MUSIC. SEND US AN E-MAIL AND LET US HEAR YOUR MUSIC.