Sat 12/21 @ 4-10PM
Clevelander Packy Malley is a major force in northeast Ohio’s reggae community as a Dj and promoter who has put on many reggae festivals in the area and turned on countless people to the music he loves. Then he joined the Peace Corps and they sent him to — inexplicably? — Jamaica, where he’s been living in a remote farming village helping to build better infrastructure to make the community more productive.
Unfortunately, in July, Hurricane Beryl swept through the island, devastating farmlands, buildings and crops, including in Packy’s home village, from which he was evacuated for a month.
He’s back in Cleveland for a holiday break but his Jamaican family and friends are always on his mind. So while he’s hear, once again like last year, he’s holding a benefit for them but this time it’s more urgent: his village needs to replace farming tools, first aid supplies, generators and sheets of aluminum zinc roofing.
So all the money raised at his party at the West Side Irish Club will be going to that. The event kicks off with a cocktail hour from4-5pm, followed by swing dance lessons from 5-6 and the Dan Zola Big Band Orchestra playing danceable music from 6-8:30pm. From 8:3-10pm you can enjoy holiday music played by a DJ, and for those of you who just can’t tear yourselves away from sports, the Ohio State/Tennessee football game will be shown in its entirety starting at 8 so you have no excuse not to come. There’ll be food and a cash bar.
Get your tickets here.
Olmsted Falls, OH 44138