ENTERTAINERS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO WINSTON “MERRITONE” BLAKE IN KINGSTON!

Blake, a musicologist and ‘elder’ of the sound system movement, died on February 27 at the University Hospital of the West Indies. He was 75.

“It’s going to be an open-mike affair for anyone who would like to make a musical contribution to Winston Blake,” Mike Whitelock, operator of Jacob’s Place Lounge and Restaurant, told the Jamaica Observer.

Among the performers will be singer Mikey ‘Silky’ Schloss, Blake’s brother-in-law. He is the brother of Blake’s wife Cynthia Schloss who died in 1999.