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The Reggae Trail is a curated path of music-related landmarks that tell the story of the growth of reggae in key cities around the world, starting in New York. The Trail is a map of past and present record stores, recording studios, performance spaces, and the people who helped make the music an integral part of life in important urban centers. The trail also tells the story of the growth of Jamaican and Caribbean immigrant communities.
The Trail includes the top record stores that brought the music to the people starting in the early 1960s. This includes VP Records, which moved from Kingston, Jamaica, to Brooklyn and eventually Jamaica, Queens in 1977, becoming a major distributor and label in the globalization of reggae. After more than four decades, VP Records’ flagship retail store is one of the oldest continuously operating record stores in the Northeast. Click link for Reggae Trail map. Article and photo courtesy VP Records.
