Morgan Heritage – Return of the Kings at SOB’s!

Very rarely do we have a group, a Reggae group, open themselves to a hungry audience.  The hunger (which can be described as a yearning to know everything there is to know about a group while they’re performing and beyond the stage), will be fed but the question becomes who is going to feed that hunger:  the group performing or the audience listening.

Morgan Heritage (Lukes, Una, Peetah, Gramps, Memo) took to the stage at SOB’s in Manhattan and fed their hungry audience.  Beginning with fresh greens, Jemere Morgan, son of Gramps Morgan warmed the audience with his hit singles and did so acoustically.  Having heard him on the radio, this change was a refreshing treat.  The audience was more than receptive especially when he hit his current hit song “Neighborhood Girl.”  The audience erupted and sang along with the Junior Morgan which supports the majorities’ opinion that he is the new Prince of Reggae.

Making a grand entrance, including security having to clear a path for them to get on stage (the venue was packed to capacity), Morgan Heritage fed the hungry audience a super-sized main course and dessert.  The crowd enjoyed every morsel, licked their fingers and scraped their plate.  Here’s how MH did it….

Beginning the show with track 7 from their album Here Come the Kings, “Looking For the Roots” and all its’ Roots Reggae greatness set the tone and the pace for the evening.  The group went on to perform “Here Comes the Kings” and “The Perfect Love Song.”  In addition to performing songs from their album, older classics “Don’t Haffi Dread,” “Your Friend” and “She’s Still Loving Me” hit the spot of fans who have been with the group from day one.

Never afraid to tell fans the way it is, Peetah spoke to VP Records asking them to be more supportive of Reggae artists, he spoke to all radio hosts (in particular HOT 97 FM New York), calling on them to support more independent artists as well as more support for Reggae artists and not just Dancehall artists.  Further on in the discussion, Peetah took aim at promoters who produce stage shows without including Reggae artists and only promoting Dancehall artists. 

As a salute to the legends who came before, Peetah explained the relationship between his Father, Denroy Morgan and Toots Hibbert who are brothers, born and raised in the same house.  From that explanation, the group performed “Bam Bam” in a Mento style and also explained that Toots and the Maytals are the ones who began what we know as Reggae.  Nice.

Continuing with a salute to their forefathers, Gramps explained the reason why he loves Shabba as much as he does an gave the audience a DJ freestyle that the audience loved.  You need to hear the icon say “ah meeeeeeeeeeeee man!”  Classic.

Behind the scenes, Shane Brown did a flawless job with the engineering, Destine Xposure did an excellent job with organization, and Irish and Chin did, as they always do, a great job with marketing; perfect team work and an example of the reasons why all are considered to be the best in their field.

Morgan Heritage will be performing in Montreal on August 16^th as a part of the 10^th annual Montreal International Reggae Festival.  For more info, visit www.montrealreggaefest.com.

In the meantime, add the album Here Comes the Kings to your collection.  You won’t be sorry that you did; I guarantee you it will remain on repeat >>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-come-the-kings/id645716869

P.S.  No matter where you are in the world, request Morgan Heritage on your favorite radio station, and from your favorite promoter.  This is one of the few groups doing right by the genre!  @morganheritage