‘Riddim Up’ is a live JAM harnessing, honing, and celebrating our legendary Jamaican talent while facilitating and fostering a healthy outlet for our underserved creative arts industry. The Jam is hosted by Internationally acclaimed Reggae Artist Andy Livingston at his Restaurant Sweet Calabash. Andy feels compelled to contribute to the current reggae rival at a grass roots level. Our for
mat is as follows: The backing band allows for others to come and play as a individual or with the band or bring your own band to play, otherwise we jam. We are never short on talent as our audience is made up mainly of musical minds
Our backing band consist of Jeremy Ashbourne, drummer, studio engineer and son of professional pianist Peter Ashbourne, Omar Francis, vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Roots Underground, Andre ‘Sypda’ Dennis, engineer at Jammys and Keyboardist for Raging Fire and Wayne McGregor lead guitarist and vocalist for Black Zebra. The Jam is streamed live via Ustream.com, The night is documented via photo and video by fans, patrons and musicians.
