Grendel\u2019s Lair<\/a> up to the stadiums. You know, every level and I\u2019ve always had a good time. I always felt at home there. The city of brotherly love, and that\u2019s very appropriate for me and Shaggy. It\u2019s always a good time there.\u201d<\/p>\nWhich is what the artists hope to convey during the One Fine Day Festival. Sting and Shaggy pop up on stage the whole day, introducing the bands and interacting with the fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, we wanted to feel the whole thing,\u201d Shaggy said. \u201cIt was such a great day, and it\u2019s not hard with Sting. It\u2019s really him and I together. It becomes easy. I don\u2019t think we really plan to really curate the whole thing. It just kind of happened like that, that we\u2019re just going to introduce everybody, because we\u2019re there and we wanted to be involved and get involved, not just having these acts on stage. We\u2019re actually fans of them also. We want to see them play and, you know, we might, I watch a whole performance because then we have to rush to the next stage now. I think the audience likes us walking through the venue and they stop and say \u2018Hi.\u2019 That\u2019s what we really like and who we are as people.\u201d<\/p>\n
While each band on the schedule brings its own energy to the day, when Sting and Shaggy take the stage, everything shoots to the stratosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a kind of like a battle of the bands,\u201d said Sting. \u201cYou know, we have basically two bands out there. I\u2019ll play a song. Shaggy will do one of his and then he\u2019ll just interrupt me when he feels like it and I, I can interrupt him. So it\u2019s kind of a loose arrangement, but we trust each other not to mess it up too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shaggy, for his part, still enjoys the surprise element.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s the element of surprise.\u201d said Shaggy. \u201cPeople always always told me they like that element of surprise. I think people are surprised when they see this connection. I think on paper it looks weird. Until you\u2019re in it and your like, \u2018Oh, but I know all these songs. It\u2019s trusting each other\u2019s instincts and musical taste, because we kind of see eye-to-eye on everything really. I just go with the flow of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2018, Sting and Shaggy put out the album \u201c44\/876,\u201d winning a Grammy for Best Reggae Album. The friends would like to do that again, but it\u2019s finding the time to record that is proving difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019ll be kind of easy for us to do, but finding the time when we can do is tough,\u201d said Sting.<\/p>\n
The recording, though, isn\u2019t the main thing. Both artists want to be up on stage, taking the audience on a journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t get into music for the recording aspect of it,\u201d Shaggy said. \u201cI write pretty well, and I record pretty well. I\u2019ll listen to a song a couple of times, then I\u2019m done. I don\u2019t wanna hear it again. I wanna move to the next thing. But, I never get tired of an audience because each audience is different. And that energy that you get from that, that\u2019s why I got into the music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turns out being a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, selling more than 100 million records, winning 17…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,5424,1448,2830,1311,1072,33431,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-170729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-music-and-concerts","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-things-to-do","14":"tag-top-stories-mlt","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081606876517887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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