With a new album out, Etana is eager to get back on the road and perform for the fans, especially after a year of inactivity due to the Coronavirus. This Saturday July 3rd, she performs at the Big Ship Music Festival in Port Charlotte, Florida.<\/p>\n
It will be the singer\/songwriter\u2019s second major date this year. The first came as headliner for Spread Love Reggae Festival which took place in late May in Wilmington, North Carolina. \u201cBeing on stage is everything. I also know that people are anxious for live shows again and there are some who are still uncomfortable in crowded spaces. I performed in North Carolina and it was awesome,\u201d said Etana.<\/p>\n
Global Coronavirus restrictions prevented Etana from touring last year and promoting Gemini, her previous album. With the United States government-sanctioned vaccine program helping to stem the pandemic, the entertainment industry has gradually re-opened with a number of reggae events scheduled for this summer. From July 7-9, Etana will perform in Texas. On the 10th<\/sup>, she is down to perform in New Orleans; eight days later, she is at Riviera Beach in West Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n Pamoja<\/em><\/strong>, her seventh album, was released on June 25. It contains 16 songs. The album consist of a number of collaborations with artists such as Damian \u201cJunior Gong\u201d Marley, Alborosie, Vybz Kartel and Stonebwoy. The title is Swahili for \u2018togetherness\u2019; Etana does Malaika<\/em><\/strong>, one of her song on the album in that language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a new album out, Etana is eager to get back on the road and perform for the fans, especially after a year of inactivity due to the Coronavirus. This Saturday July 3rd, she performs at the Big Ship Music Festival in Port Charlotte, Florida. It will be the singer\/songwriter\u2019s second major date this year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}