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Negril, Westmoreland

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The resort town at Jamaica's western tip, and the island's beach-show capital. Its seven miles of sand filled with music venues as tourism grew from the 1970s — Roots Bamboo, Alfred's, MXIII — and the Negril stage show, played to a mix of visitors and locals with the sunset behind the band, is its own genre of Jamaican performance.

Bloody Bay, NegrilJason Boldero · CC BY 2.0 · Source ↗

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Story · Well supportedBeaches, ovals and lawns: where the dance actually happened

The Jamaican stage is usually open to the sky - a beach, a sports oval, a plantation lawn.

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