Reggae through Iceland’s longest night of the year
Huffington Post Story by Stephen Weir. December 12, 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/stephen-weir/icelandic-reggae-amabadama_b_13533242.html AmabAdamA strut their way through the longest night of the year On December 21 st – Day One of Winter – sunlight in Reykjavik is just a 4 hour 7 minute low-in-the-sky rumour. The dim sol stays lit long enough for Icelanders to shop, grab an espresso, gas the car and suck up what little light the gods offer that day. Busy. Busy. But oh so brief. What do Icelanders do for the other 20 hours of a winter day? For Gnúsi Yones, Salka Sól Eyfel and Steinunn Jónsdóttir, the three singing stars of AmabAdamA the seemingly never-ending night is time for perfecting the Jamaica strut, singing and writing reggae music -- all in Icelandic of course! Next spring when the sun comes back, AmabAdamA will have a new album for their growing world fan base. I celand Crowd Goes Wild When B...