Sun 5/31 @ 4PM
Reggae Sundays have become an annual tradition at the Music Box Supper Club between Memorial Day and Labor Day when, every Sunday afternoon, the doors between the downstairs supper club space and the boardwalk are thrown open for a tropical summer party fueled by the easygoing grooves of reggae music. The band performs inside where dancers gyrate by the stage and outside, people languish by the river sipping island-inspired cocktails from the outdoor Tiki bar. The menu for these Sundays features jerk chicken and other Jamaican-flavored selections.
Each year, the series opens (this week!) and closes with probably the area’s most popular reggae band, Carlos Jones & the P.L.U.S. Band. Jones has been performing with area reggae bands the late 70s, first with I-Tal and later as a co-front man with the wildly popular First Light, before forming his own P.L.U.S. band in the mid 90s. (You can hear the rest of former First Light performing on July 12 as Shake [pronounced Shaky] Ground.) He’s back from a hip replacement operation with a packed summer schedule, but few of his shows have the full summer vibe of this one.
Future Sundays include some names familiar to all area reggae lovers such as Jah Messengers, Columbus’ Ark Band and Akron’s Umojah Nation, as well as a couple new to this series, such as Dayton/Cincinnati’s The Luv Locz Experiment and Jamaica’s T.Natty.
Reggae Sundays are free. Go here for a full schedule.