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Soul in the Sun - is a new event to grace Jamaica's annual music calendar pulling local and international talent. Organized by a core production team comprised of Jazz & Blues veteran associate producer Junior Taylor alongside Richard Clarke, Race Morrison and Matthew Goffe, the team aims to pull local fans and visitors from abroad for two soulful nights featuring local acts like Lust and Richie Stephens and international stars Keith Sweat, Jeffrey Osborne, Howard Hewitt, Peobo Bryson, Regina Belle, Johnny Gill, Dru Hill and Silk.

Ocho Rios sees its share of excitement during carnival season in April with Bacchanal Jamaica hosting a mad soca bashment at Chukka Cove. Bacchanal hosts a series of events during Jamaica's carnival season, which runs from mid-January through Easter. Bacchanal Jamaica is composed of three Mas bands in the Trinidadian tradition--Oakridge, Revelers, and Raiders--which have promoted parties since carnival festivities began in Jamaica in 1989.

Rebel Salute is the most popular annual music event staged in St. Ann. It started out to commemorate the January 15 birthday of reggae icon Tony Rebel, who shares the same birthday as Martin Luther King Jr., as he's quick to point out. The first show was staged in 1994 in Mandeville, Manchester, and featured the late, great, Garnett Silk, among a host of other artists. The successful annual event was moved to the Port Kaiser Sports Club in St. Elizabeth in 2000 and later to Richmond Estate in St. Ann to capture a wider audience in 2012 when it was extended to two days and nights.

Calabash Literary Festival is a fun, free event held the first weekend in June at Jakes in Treasure Beach that draws writers and attendees from across the Caribbean and African diaspora, as well as featuring some of Jamaica's own lyricists and authors.

Joy Mechanics in collaboration with The Edna Manley College presents the second annual staging of the Gungo Walk World-Alternative Music and Arts Festival. The festival is poised for August 24, 2013 at The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts campus. It is set to promote and showcase artistes performing alternative, folk and experimental expressions of music in the Jamaican, Caribbean and International experience. It will attract visiting artistes as well as audiences who are interested in alternative music, world; ethnic music as well as our homegrown music forms.

Bruk out time for all the new and returning collegiates.

Pulse seeks the fresh face of the season in this beauty contest drawing supermodel hopefuls.

The spot to be if you love mouth-watering, spicy-hot meat, seafood and anything else that can be rubbed with jerk seasoning, not to mention great performances by top dancehall and reggae acts.