The JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival will be streamed live on the internet thanks to a partnership forged with TurnKey Productions, SteadyImage.net, CbeanMedia and Internet video streaming company Livestream.com.
The company (Livestream.com) will stream the happenings from the JAMAICA Jazz & Blues Festival 2010 live on their website to their 1.2 million subscribers around the world. The Stream will be supported on the round by Telegens, a local Wifi company will be providing the internet feed to Livestream.com.
The company (Livestream.com) will stream the happenings from the JAMAICA Jazz & Blues Festival 2010 live on their website to their 1.2 million subscribers around the world. The Stream will be supported on the round by Telegens, a local Wifi company will be providing the internet feed to Livestream.com.
Erykah Badu performs at Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival Friday Jan. 29th 2010Photo source
Film Producer Adrian Allen of SteadyImage.net and Sherra Pierre-March of CbeanMedia have consolidated efforts in making this opportunity of live streaming the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival a reality. Walter Elmore, executive producer for the JAMAICA Jazz & Blues Festival 2010 , explained that the partnership was a critical element in promoting the experience that is the JAMAICA Jazz & Blues Festival 2010
“Livestream.com has over 700,000 channels to which more than a million people around the world tune in each day. Our Festival will be streamed on the website’s homepage free of cost, and they will also allow us the opportunity to integrate the platform with our Facebook and Twitter, so our fans and friends can expect us to maximize on this opportunity,” Elmore said.
With Livestream.com as the exclusive streaming provider, the player widget for the webcast can be embedded anywhere on the web, and integration with Facebook and Twitter allows online viewers to engage in web-based conversations with other fans around the world, and even the band”.
Livestream.com will also be advertising the Festival on its channels and website, and will be shared among sites such as JamaicaJazzAndBlues.com and iNation.tv, making access to the stream a breeze.
“The Festival is always growing, and a partnership like this helps us to grow and spread our wings. This year, we became a week-long event and that’s really exciting for us, and now we are very pleased to be able to offer this to music fans around the world,” remarked the executive producer.
Livestream.com offers the opportunity for producers to use the website to create live, linear, and on-demand Internet television to broadcast anywhere on the Web through a single embeddable player widget. Some of the unique features of the site includes to ability to mix multiple live cameras, overlay graphics, and desktop streaming with 3D effects.
The 2010 staging of the JAMAICA Jazz & Blues Festival 2010 will be a seven-day long celebration of The Art of Music that will see Montego Bay engulfed in the awesome sights and sounds of the TurnKey Productions event from January 24-30.
The signature performance nights will take place from January 28 – 30 at The Greenfield Stadium, Trelawny, which is 12-15 minutes away from Rose Hall.
Having seen performances from the likes of Alicia Keys, Kenny Rogers, Anita Baker in past Jazz Festivals, the Festival stage is pleased to welcome to JAMAICA Jazz & Blues Fest 2010: Gladys Knight, Joss Stone, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmunds, Erykah Badu, John Secada, Deborah Cox, Kelly Price, Tamia, Machel Montano HD, Billy Ocean, The Whispers, as well a reggae band Third World.
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