Cali Roots Festival continued
Photos from the California Roots Festival, featuring: Chronixx, Steel Pulse, Fortunate Youth, and Stephen Marley. From Monterey, California; May 25-27,
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Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. His twitter is: @SteveCooperEsq
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Cali Roots Festival: Nine years young and growing
A Photo-Essay of the 9th Annual “Cali Roots” (Monterey, California; May 25-27, 2018) At page 273 of renowned reggae historian
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