{"id":1808,"date":"2015-09-18T05:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T05:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2015-09-20T06:35:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:35:56","slug":"updated-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED PRESS RELEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE & WORLD MUSIC AWARDS (IRAWMA) <\/strong><\/p>\n

An affiliate of Martin’s International<\/strong><\/p>\n

Posted By: C. Harrison\/Sept 17, 2015<\/p>\n

ETANA & THE RAWSOUL REBELS\u00a0 AND TARRUS RILEY TOP NOMINEES TO PERFORM AT THE 34TH INTERNATIONAL REGGAE & WORLD MUSIC AWARDS. THIRD WORLD TO CO-HOST VISIT WWW.IRAWMA.COM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The IRAWMA 2014 named Princess of Reggae, Etana & The Rawsoul Rebels and multiple IRAWMA winner Tarrus Riley, among the leading 2014\/15 nominees for the glittering 34 annual International Reggae and World\u00a0 Music Awards IRAWMA. They will perform at reggae and world music’s biggest night. Among the hosts\/emcees will be Third World-Reggae Ambassadors, numerous winner and past recipient of the IRAWMA Hall of Fame\/Lifetime Award.<\/p>\n

The Martin’s\u00a0International produced IRAWMA takes place on Sunday, October 4th , 2015 at the newly remodeled, prestigious, Bailey Hall at Broward College, 3501 Davie Road in Davie\/Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The red carpet arrival begins at 5:00pm and the Award\/showcase starts at 7:00pm.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among other performers are: No-Maddz, who signed an endorsement deal with Puma in 2011. The record-breaking Puma FAAS campaign with Usain Bolt became the highest sales for\u00a0a second quarter in\u00a0the company’s history. The series of adverts were aired on MTV, VH1, TBS, CW (in the United States of America) amongst others worldwide. Also, the adverts played in every Footlocker and Puma stores worldwide.\u00a0Incidentally, The Government of Jamaica wants the Stadium in Trelawney to be renamed in the honor of the sprint champion Usain Bolt.\u00a0 Additionally, Legendary reggae and gospel great, Dr. Carlene Davis, new comer and best female nominee Ikaya, and Ed Robinson-are Lifetime Awardee.<\/p>\n

The Africa showcase segment will feature: Fally Ipupa, Shatta Wales, Dahmu Manero and the Kamutshima Dance Troupe. South Florida nominees Comedian Rohan Gunter, Code Red Band, Sharon Wiles and Lejah, among others will represent the Sunshine State and other world music.<\/p>\n

Special Awards of Honor recipients are: Tito Puente, Jr.- Latin Mambo, A.J. Brown-Lifetime Awardee, Plomie Lewis, John T-Wavs 1170am, Ossie Elliott-Musician, and Desmond Patterson-DJ\/Rainbow Records.<\/p>\n

General admission $50-VIP $100. Limited time early promotional discount tickets are now G-$35 and VIP-$75 on sales at Bailey Concert Hall’s ticket office or<\/strong> www.bailryhall.org<\/span> or <\/strong>www.irawma.com<\/span> call 877–973-4423.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets are also available from the following supporting sponsors: VP Records and Sam’s Grocery in Miramar, Reggae N thing in Coral Springs, Rainbow Variety Store, Aunt I’s in Fort Lauderdale and at- Groupon.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other sponsors includes: Bailey Hall at Broward College, OnStage TV, Hot 105 FM, VP Records, JAMAICA (Jamaica Tourist Board), D2D Track Club, Alpha Studios, JAMUSA (Jamaica Recording and Promotions Company), Ainsworth Rose and the Sunshine Band, Residence Inn and Suites by Marriott, Tanto\u00a0 Irie-Reggae Runnins, Docs Wiz\/Dawn Marie & Wiz Show; Hi-Class Promotions; Riddims Marketing, LoveDoc\/Amazing Sour Sop Drinks, Events-R-Rus\/Patrick B., Wiz Communications, Mickey B\/Emcee Promotions, The Duke of Earl Group, http:\/\/www.bundiblog.com, Blog and Ayiai TV,\u00a0 among others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The official hotel Residence Inn and Suites by Marriott, Fort Lauderdale Airport & Cruise Port, and limited time and limited number of rooms. The hotel is offering a special group rate, with complimentary breakfast. Enter the Group Promotions code to get the group rate: ragragw.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The annual IRAWMA is dedicated to “Health Awareness” and part of the proceeds benefit, the Princess Margaret Hospital in St. Thomas, Jamaica and Entertainers in need.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For general information please call 877\/9-REGGAE or (877)-973-4423, Media: please contact Sydonie Swan via email: media@irawma.com or 203-448-9411<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE & WORLD MUSIC AWARDS (IRAWMA) An affiliate of Martin’s International Posted By: C. Harrison\/Sept 17, 2015 ETANA & THE RAWSOUL REBELS\u00a0 AND TARRUS RILEY TOP NOMINEES TO PERFORM AT THE 34TH INTERNATIONAL REGGAE & WORLD MUSIC AWARDS. THIRD WORLD TO CO-HOST VISIT WWW.IRAWMA.COM The IRAWMA 2014 named Princess of Reggae, Etana & … Continue reading UPDATED PRESS RELEASE<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}