Name: The Mediations @ the Alibi, Telluride CO - February 1st
Start: 2025-02-01T21:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-02-01T23:30:00-07:00
Location: The Alibi, South Fir Street, Telluride, CO, USA

The Mediations @ the Alibi, Telluride CO - February 1st

Jamaica's Legendary Harmonic Trio, THE MEDIATIONS - live in concert February 1st w/ DJ Wombat for support.
About this Event

The Meditations—Ansel Cridland, Danny Clarke, and Winston Watson—collectively known as The Meditations, recorded their first hit single "Woman is Like a Shadow" in 1974 at Channel One Recording Studio. The group made its mark and sealed their place as reggae legends with the release of their first two albums, Message From The Meditations and Wake Up, produced by Dobby Dobson. Soon after came the third album, Guidance, produced by Ansel Cridland.

Known the world over as Jamaica’s legendary harmony trio, The Meditations captured the hearts of reggae fans globally. This led to collaborations with Lee "Scratch" Perry. Scratch, who produced for Bob Marley and the Wailers, asked them to provide backup vocals for "Punky Reggae Party", featuring Bob Marley on lead vocals. Marley was so pleased with their harmonies that he sought out the group to do more backup vocals for him. Many have said that "The Meditations is Bob Marley’s favorite group," which led to Marley requesting their harmony and background vocals on songs like "Rastaman Live Up" and "Blackman Redemption."

The Meditations' harmonic vocals can also be heard on tracks such as "Bongo Man Youths Them A Cry" by Jimmy Cliff and "Mr. Cop" by Gregory Isaacs, to name a few.

In 1983, Linval Thompson produced The Meditations' fourth album, No More Friends. On this album, all the lead vocals were sung by Ansel Cridland. Meanwhile, Danny Clarke and Winston Watson later released For The Good Of Man. After some time apart, Ansel began reassembling the group, starting with the release of Return Of The Meditations in 1993, produced by Ansel on the Heartbeat record label.

Ansel followed up by producing and releasing Ghetto Knowledge on the Easy Star label in 1999, then Stand In Love on his own label, Meditations Music, in 2004. Most recently, he collaborated with another great, Philip Smart, for his latest album, Dangerous Society, which was released jointly by Meditations Music and Philip Smart in 2011.

Ansel is a dedicated musician, writing, producing, and releasing albums, and he continues to tour with the addition of DaddyLion Chandell and Toussaint Webb on harmony.