Miss Louise Bennett

Tribute To Miss Lou, bless her soul, she will always be remembered and keep Jamaicas cultural roots alive.......

[@souflotv]

i left jamaica over 20 yrs ago and never went back , but im going back in a few months to live for a year and if things go as planned then it will be a permanent move , i cant wait to return to that culture , the roots and the genuine love of those people .... caa mi akee go a linsted market not a quatty wot sell.....big up miss lou ...

[@kellray]

I am from Costa Rica, the Jamaican culture has been passed to our provice of Limon when they migrated to CR. Culture is still strong.. and It is SAD when the new generation does not appreciate all of this ... Miss Lou ROCKS!!!!

[@reggaefilms]

such a shame, when miss lou was around she made sure that those games +songs didn't get forgotten. I love listeing to miss lou talk about all the old jamaican traditions, she was magical.

[@TheFoxze]

she's so vivacious and full of life... a complete barrel of laughs when she's speaking and you're learning invaluable history at the same time. Thank you for uploading... Ive watched this a few times and I never get tired of it. It's filled with sooo much nostalgia of a time that will never be again.

[@kirky3051]

I love my culture

[@Onebudge]

......takes me back to my humble beginning in Clarendon, Jamaica

[@MrCity27]

this take me back to a time that I will not forget

[@tedybomber1713]

+Wayne Miller sigh good times T-T

[@MrCity27]

The good old days

[@lovedichoreo1529]

Jamaicans....we are so diverse, so multifaceted, so multidimensional, so dynamic that any style you come with, we can either match or surpass it..know that. Love oono

[@afiyakemarafa1997]

This is BEAUTIFUL. Captivated. Miss Lou & all our Elders are sorely missed. I LOVE singing a lot of these folk music. What happened to the fife players, man? Instead of having us play recorders in HS, we should've been strengthening our dying/dead relationship w/ fife & harmonica 😢

[@colleenhenry8022]

Love this!

[@afiyakemarafa1997]

This is BEAUTIFUL. Captivated. Miss Lou & all our Elders are sorely missed. I LOVE singing a lot of these folk music. What happened to the fife players, man? 😕 Instead of having us play recorders in HS, we should've been strengthening our dying/dead relationship w/ fife, harmonica & banjo 😢

[@jeanettedawson8500]

Louis Bennet epitomized the culture of Jamaican. She's mama Lou, aunty Lou the whol a ih, a Jamaican queen indeed. Mi a halla an a bal because mi mis r sooo much.

[@London_miss234]

Glad to find this video. Ms. Louis Bennett and Dr. Olive Lewin were great figures of their time, and great for Jamaica. I hope young people are aware of them and appreciate them.

[@paislibee]

Miss Lou, u will never die, u r always in our hearts

[@tr0picknowledge]

Proud to be from the land of wood and water ❤

[@jermainepeart5861]

To one of the many persons that helped to keep the culture alive #ProudandFree #Jamaica53

[@SmithIII]

Thank you for posting this video, it helps my children to see our culture.

[@rayleenejm1]

THIS WAS WONDERFUL!! GREAT JOB!! REASON LIKE THIS IS WHY I WANNA SEND MY SON TO JAMAICA FOR SCHOOL. THE KIDS ARE WAY MORE ADVANCED THAN THE AMERICAN CHILDREN

[@frasergreenjenjenify]

Oh thank you so much for sharing this, reminds me of my youth. We have such a rich culture, and will gladly share this with my granddaughters

[@warminator1091]

What a wonderfull woman she was. A mother of all Jamaicans.

[@Onebudge]

Who the hell gets on here and gives thumbs down? I don't understand.

[@pinkymendez2735]

Shaun Bailey dem A ediat becaz dem don't even like den own self

[@foxieedee8435]

Lightless people, I think...

[@pinkrose1438]

The ones who gave thumbs down are the loosers! They has no memory of a good childhood! All those who were born during Ms Lou's time are better minded people!

[@coleciarobinson227]

A dat me a say to kmt

[@centerfold8]

I love Jamaica! I love the Carribean

[@Tolanar357]

This is the Jamaica I sure miss,natural pure art of our culture ....

[@Jahwarrior91]

this is the true Jamaican culture to me

[@outcastnails8552]

So proud of my jamaican heritage 🇯🇲🇯🇲🖤💃🏾2019

[@joshja20]

Oh waw this is great! that was when kids where kids in Jamaica, now its all about the rampin shop and all. I hope we can really archive these.

[@MonifaAdebola]

Lady at 5:25 is Olive Lewin, she is quite old now....in her 80s. A Jamaican musicologist, singer and founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers Chorale

[@Gaeilgeoir]

MonifaAdebola Thanks! I was wondering who she was. Nice to know. 🙂

[@lisongpidi572]

Jamaican folk music love it

[@blakbeltjonez]

this video is quite old, about 30 years ago - Miss Lou is in her 40's here, looks like late 70's maybe early 80's.... all the old JBC Ring Ding tapes were taped over in 1980 after the show was cancelled and she was "let go"..... 12 years of Ring Ding, and not a single episode survived in the JBC archive. unfortunately, the old Jamaica seems to be nearly gone nowadays. this documentary is truly of a bygone era.

[@souflotv]

big up your self for doing that and putting it like that ....as long as you dont exploit it and as long as you truely love and appreciate it ....its all love and blessing , and not saying that because you are white because as you know we have white and chinese and indian amongst others that are born jamaicans , im saying that because you are ,my friend an outsider ....person from the U.k .. blessing and love same way

[@nippy22]

love miss lou and those ole jamaican songs dance and poetry...love ya sleep tight ...

[@joeygirlnyc]

this takes me back to my childhood days when life was sooooooooooo much simpler.

[@dontaviouskent2648]

i actually never met her or heard much of what she was famous for but i learned she was a family friend and eventually became my grandmothers god mother which i thought was very cool.

[@TheSameOneRose6111]

Enough memories❤❤🎉😅😅😅

[@lrac522]

What a beauty...! It's a shame we lost all of this....

[@hassan1814]

thanks for this reminds me of my youth in jamaica..thanks liked the mento

[@meaux8]

Nothing like Jamaican roots ~

[@eleanorstewart9365]

May this beautiful, respectable lady ms lou RIP

[@souflotv]

I CAN HAVE EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE ALTHOUGH I HAD NOT BEEN BACK , THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT I HAVE NEVER LOST CONTACT WITH AND THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL AROUND AND CERTAIN SYSTEMS THAT ARE STILL IN PLACE ..... IN ANY REGARD ...............JAMAICA IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS EVER AND VERY UNIQUE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO REACHING MY BIRTH LAND THIS DECEMBER ..........

[@kingnevets]

When i was a kid iwas on Ring Ding once love Miss Lou..Ring Ding Theres a concert here for you and me there a concert her for us...

[@kareenmarcia]

thank you for posting this video its so informative!

[@shekinahworshipdanceinstit4432]

Rich culture.

[@ThatsABiggon]

Wow, I love the portion about the work songs, as we had the exact tradition in the States with the railroad tunes (& so on) only with these the work motion was in reverse. very interesting.

[@iamtaylormade]

thank you...

[@naturalja1]

I use to do this in school......yes all the ring games

[@timmoytsinclair395]

I think the significance of the enunciated fourth beat that Olive Lewin spoke about was the movements that Miss Lou spoke about… how they would bring down there picks and tools on the fourth best as the sang the work songs. Just a thought.

[@goku21060]

(continue) sad if changes and becomes like usa =/. and you are significant every single person who lives in jamaica is significant :) it only takes a crack in a dam for there to be a flood. and you could of been too it is true but :D come back happy and full of god blessings :)

[@Realtalkwithrere]

❤❤❤

[@genewaddy5507]

Rhumba Box!

[@likkleone247]

god should have let ms lou live longer

[@seanfairman]

great footage gonna try to mash it for my big youth mash up miss lou ring ding

[@centerfold8]

What if we use technology to preserve Caribbean culture?

[@braataproductions]

How though?

[@reggaefilms]

by recording videos of it and sharing them on youtube :)

[@Trelli28]

Carry me ackee go a lynstead market, not a quaty wort sell; Carry me ackee go a lynstead market, not a quaty wort sell; Lawd, what a night, not a bite, not a quaty wort sell, Lawd, what a night, not a bite, not a quaty wort sell, Everybody come feel up, feel up, whey dem mumma noh bring; Everybody come feel up, feel up, whey dem mumma noh bring; Lawd, what a night, not a bite, not a quaty wort sell, Lawd, what a night, not a bite, not a quaty wort sell,

[@TheRijoun]

August 2019. My thing dis yah

[@sealie15]

@bwoyrough - that is ashame. I remember growing up on Miss Lou's folks songs.

[@pinkymendez2735]

sealie15 and ring ding

[@jadesutton2939]

like it Mrs Louise Bennett 😊

[@marcswell5011]

Di real people of di land

[@TheTrinmaican]

this is my moms idol

[@mahatma1989]

The good ol days ago.

[@jerrydawg1904]

This interview was done in the yard overlooking Gordon Town

[@skytoppa09]

big up mis lue

[@joshja20]

I wish that mento could penetrate the society again and we construct dances like salsa

[@dthompson1313]

@bwoyrough I completely agree with you. Such a shame because I want my child to experience things from my culture but everytime I visit Jamaica these days its like going to the states. The culture is completely dying before our eyes!!!

[@yashelle100]

This is such great footage on Miss Lou and her work! I was raised in JA for only the first four years of my life- but the beats and rythms of the songs are still there! I still remember the "emmanuel road" song and the game. Do you happen to know where on the island the first part with the school girls was recorded? Thanks again for putting this great material online and help people reconnect with their heritage!

[@jerrydawg1904]

Gordon Town...in the yard Ms Lou used to live...

[@reggaefilms]

will message u with info on that ring games thing...

[@jerrydawg1904]

Ring Ding originated right in that yard she did the interview...you could stay right where she sat and see the square

[@Reco-reca]

SKEEN!!!!!

[@NerdistAquarist]

I'd love to buy a tape/DVD of Miss Lou's stories. Anyone know where I can find?

[@goku21060]

:O not sure if you were mad is why you wrote with all capitals but I wasn't saying it to be rude I am just saying when you live somewhere else their ways rub off of you without you even knowing it or with you knowing it. and when you go back to jamaica you bring back these way changing how jamaica could be in the future. it has happen everyone else so all I am saying is that a lot of people in jamaica not all are really pure hearted when it comes to people and love all people it would be sad if

[@knestone]

does anybody know what film this is from?

[@Roald1988]

hippo

[@alexanderson6578]

"We grow mento" nw?!!!! lollllll

[@goku21060]

I hope you don't bring the other country ignorance back to jamaica. you left pure come back pure..

[@lovedichoreo1529]

Patois is "the bad language? Rotfl

[@cha53z]

kids dont do this no more.. kids arent kids anymore cos everyone wants to grow up so fast. sucks more that technology does not really help in the matter.

[@pinkymendez2735]

cha53z they have cable all day they sit in front of it

[@sealie15]

Who's the lady at 5:25

[@Stonygut1865]

Olive Llewyn. I think she was the founder of The Jamaica Folk Singers.

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