⚫️🟢🟡⚫️🎼🪇🪘 #FOLKMUSIC Traditional Jamaican Mento Music is a lively, acoustic folk style that predates reggae and ska. Originating in the 19th century, mento blends African rhythms with European musical forms. It features instruments like the banjo, rumba box, guitar, and hand drums. Lyrics often tell humorous or satirical stories about everyday life. Mento’s upbeat, syncopated rhythm remains a symbol of Jamaican heritage and culture. #mentomusic #mento #traditional #folkmusic #folklore #heri

47K views · 7.5K reactions | Hertford Folk & Cultural Group gave an authentic folk performance that had the audience quite entertained at the Emancipation Jubilee  Seville Heritage Park | Jamaica Cultural Development Commission ( JCDC) | Facebook

Jamaican Folk Forms took centre stage on TVJ, expertly showecased by Patrick Earle, dance specialist at JCDC. | Dancers of Jamaica

⚫️🟡🟢⚫️🎼 #JAMAICAN #FOLKMUSIC "Emmanuel Road", by the Jamaican Folk Singers, is a song and a children's game, usually played by Jamaican Children, during the colonial and post emancipation era. The game highlights a time when Jamaicans worked as stone cutters, skilled laborers who manually cut and shaped limestone or other stone materials used in building construction, especially during the colonial and post-emancipation periods..They played a crucial role in building infrastructure, homes, ch

3.6K views · 151 reactions | Six singers and 14 performers of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra played 113 traditional Chinese and foreign instruments in a modern folk concert at the 1862 Theater in #Shanghai on Saturday. After the show foreign guests were shown how to play the instruments. #ChineseCulture | Xi's Moments | Facebook