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Capleton's annual charity stage show, first staged in 2000 in his home parish of St Mary and raising funds for local schools and hospitals; it returned in 2024 at the Gray's Inn Sports Complex, Annotto Bay after a hiatus.

Annual January 6 celebration marking Maroon history and community memory at Accompong.

Italian seaside reggae, dub and dancehall festival held each July in Fermo, Marche, hosting acts such as Alborosie, Black Uhuru, Julian Marley and Kabaka Pyramid.

Long-running Memorial Day weekend reggae and dancehall festival in downtown Miami (Bayfront/Museum Park), showcasing headliners such as Sizzla, Beenie Man, Capleton and Tarrus Riley.

Boasy Tuesdays is a dancehall weekly party name found in Jamaican nightlife coverage, representing the dense midweek event circuit where dancers, selectors and artists kept street culture moving outside major stage shows.

On 17-18 April 1980 Bob Marley and the Wailers performed at Rufaro Stadium, Harare, at Zimbabwe's independence ceremony, having paid their own way to attend; his song 'Zimbabwe' had become an anthem of the liberation struggle. Tear gas disrupted the first night, prompting a second free show for tens of thousands. A landmark moment of reggae's Pan-African significance (Al Jazeera; Quartz Africa; Wikipedia 'Zimbabwe (song)').

Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981, of cancer, at age 36 - a loss that turned Marley from reggae's most successful international artist into its most enduring global symbol, with his catalogue continuing to introduce new listeners to Jamaican music decades later.

Gerald "Bogle" Levy, the dancer whose invented moves defined much of 1990s-2000s Jamaican street-dance culture, died in 2005; the circumstances drew significant public attention within dancehall culture and prompted community tributes.

UK awards ceremony founded by BBC radio DJ Tony Williams to recognise homegrown reggae talent, credited by British reggae press with helping launch the international careers of a number of UK reggae artists.

Public reception node for Buju Banton's post-release return-performance period, especially the 2019 Long Walk to Freedom context.

Bunny Wailer, the last surviving original member of the Wailers alongside Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, and a significant roots-reggae solo artist in his own right, died in 2021.

Founded in 2010 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, 'Cali Roots' is billed as the largest reggae-rock festival in the world, running each Memorial Day weekend with acts from Rebelution and Slightly Stoopid to Chronixx.

Regional fashion showcase launched by Pulse Investments in 2001 and staged in Kingston through 2019, presenting more than 150 designers and positioning the Caribbean as a runway centre with strong ties to the music and modelling industries.

One of Europe's largest reggae festivals, first held in 1995 in Übersee at Lake Chiemsee, Bavaria, drawing up to 35,000 visitors before a hiatus and a 2026 revival.

The April 1963 Coral Gardens incident in St James, remembered by Rastafari as "Bad Friday": in the year after independence, Jamaican security forces detained large numbers of Rastafari amid a violent clash, an episode later chronicled in the documentary Bad Friday and, in 2017, the subject of an official government apology. It framed the colonial-era climate in which Rasta imagery and sound were treated as dangerous.