NZ bands announced - Raggamuffin 2010

NZ Bands - KATCHAFIRE, SOLA ROSA & IVA LAMUM, PACIFIC HERBS, SWEET & IRIE
join Raggamuffin 2010.

We are pleased to announce that local acts Katchafire, Sola Rosa & Iva
Lamkum, Pacific Herbs and Sweet & Irie that will join Wyclef Jean (the
Fugees), Shaggy, Steel Pulse, Julian Marley, Sly & Robbie and Sean Kingston
for the Raggamuffin Festival on Saturday January 23 at Rotorua International
Stadium.

KATCHAFIRE'S debut album Revival sold in excess of 45,000 copies in 2003 and
the track Giddy Up was the the biggest selling single that year. Their
most recent gold selling album Say What You're Thinking hit the American
Reggae Billboard Top 10 and went to the number one in Hawaii. An
eight-piece band of Maori descent from Hamilton, Katchafire, after touring
the world, return to light up the Raggamuffin stage with tracks from their
soon to be released new album plus all of our old favourites.
SOLA ROSA have kept good company on the road and in the studio, counting
members of Fat Freddy's Drop, Dimmer, Goldenhorse and Pluto amongst the
ranks over the years, not to mention appropriating members of Che Fu, King
Kapisi and Anika Moa's bands and the talents of Nathan Haines and Spikey Tee
(Jah Wobble, Bomb The Bass, Morcheeba). Their releases are critically
acclaimed and labels include household names like Ministry of Sound.
Joining Sola Rosa is IVA LAMKUM. A Wellingtonian of Samoan Chinese decent,
Iva blends funk, soul, jazz and she joins Raggamuffin 2010 to perform the
singles Turn Around and Get It Together alongside Sola Rosa.

Tony Fonoti, Spencer Fusimalohi and Carl Perkins from the legendary band
HERBS will come together for the first time in over a decade. Along with
HOUSE OF SHEM and under the bands original name PACIFIC HERBS, they will
perform the best of Herbs songs. Founders of Pacific reggae in the 80s and
90s Herbs were considered Kings of the South Pacific. They had ten Top 20
singles and the hit French Letter came to express the country's anti-nuclear
stance and along with No Nukes, Nuclear Waste and Light Of The Pacific did
as much for the national psyche as they did for popular radio!

Fonoti and Fusimalohi wrote and performed several hits including French
Letter, Dragons & Demons, Jah Son, Meteli, and the tribute to Bob Marley -
Reggae's Doing Fine and Perkins wrote/co wrote the classics Long ago and
Sensitive to a Smile.

SWEET & IRIE are a nine piece band founded in South Auckland and led by
singer/songwriter Ed Ru, a Cook Islander who was born and raised in South
Auckland. The bands intention was to create a new wave of reggae music from
the South Pacific that is positive and uplifting and which they dubbed
Sunshine Reggae. It worked! Their debut single Feels Like Magic (alongside
Horsemen Family) was a top ten hit as was their debut album Localize It
released by Dawn Raid earlier this year (2009).

Four kiwi bands, six Internationals - one hot show!
Raggamuffin 2010 - Saturday January 23 @ Rotorua International Stadium

TICKETS GO ON SALE - THIS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28!

Ticketmaster - www.ticketmaster.co.nz ph 0800-111-999

For show details go to: www.raggamuffin.co.nz, www.ampresents.com
<http://www.ampresents.com/> ;

www.wyclefjean.com / www.steelpulse.com / www.officialslyandrobbie.com /
www.seankingston.com / www.katchafire.co.nz / www.solarosa.com
<http://www.solarosa.com/> / www.myspace.com/ivalamkum /
<http://www.myspace.com/ivalamkum%20/> www.houseofshem.com /
www.myspace.com/sweetandirie / <http://www.myspace.com/sweetandirie%20/>