The “biggest little festival” in Massachusetts just grew a little bigger. Starting off as a humble friendly barbeque, the Levitate Music and Arts Festival has since grown into a full-fledged weekend-long festival featuring top national touring acts, expecting a draw of over 10,000 fans per day. The fifth year will see the festival running two days: Saturday, July 8th and Sunday, July 9th.

The festival has gathered a lot of attention from fans and press alike most notably receiving a nomination from Pollstar Concert Industry Awards for “Music Festival of the Year.

Join them in Marshfield, MA for 2 days of music, 3 stages, 20 bands, art vendors, food trucks, and cold beer. Anticipate a slew of amazing performances, one of which will be from Ziggy Marley. Click here for ticket info!

Conditions of Life, the debut album from reggae artist Likkle Lightning, was released on January 15^th. The project, which has been in the making for a few years, features all the previously released songs from the artist, along with some new recordings (‘Temptation,’ ‘Early Morning Flash,’ ‘Busy Fox,’ ‘Magnum Tonic Wine,’ ‘Cyaan Sleep,’ ‘Burn Dem Out,’ ‘Babylon,’ ‘Mama Africa,’ ‘Dark African Girl,’ ‘Sunshine’ and ‘Matey Laugh’).

Fans, supporters and critics alike, will be pleased to learn that all songs were recorded at Tuff Gong Studios and mixed and mastered at Anchor in Kingston, Jamaica. Engineers that worked on the album are: Roland McDermot and Michael ‘Boxy’ Howell; and musicians include: Donald Dennis (Bass), Shaun Dawson and Oral Brown (Drums), Kevoy Webster (Keyboard), Garth Forrester (Guitar), with backing vocals by Nicole Bird. All songs were written and produced by Likkle Lightning for his own Sonhi Productions label.

Since he came on the scene a few years ago, Likkle Lightning has been consistent in advancing his musical career. He is known by many as an authentic Rasta man that makes quality songs. Even after losing his son in 2014, the artist was able to bounce back and continued to make uplifting roots reggae music. When asked what inspires him, he said, “I want to help by inspiring all peoples to live together happily and realize their blessings, no matter how little they have.”

Conditions of Life is available for streaming and download via http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/likklelightning and http://likklelightning.com. It is also on all major digital music platforms such as: iTunes, Rapsody, Amazon etc.