Lady Saw off on European tour

Dancehall’s ace female deejay, Marion ‘Lady Saw’ Hall, recently apologised to her local fans for her absence this year from the premier reggae festival, Sumfest. Saw will be taking the summer to explore Europe, where she will be on a month-long promotional tour.

“We will be hitting the ground running,” she said. “It will be three and a half weeks of promotion for a project I am working on, and I am really looking forward to it,” she said.
Saw left the island yesterday and will have a short breather before her first show kicks off on July 3 in Denmark. Her hectic first week schedule includes performances at some major reggae concerts including the Roskilde Festival in Kolnon, Germany, on July 4; July 5 will see her in France at the Eurockennes Festival, then July 6 in Amsterdam, Holland at Two Sevens Splash. Come July 8, she will be in Frankfurt, then the tour moves to Zurich, Switzerland for another event, Moods and then on to Italy for the Rototom Festival, which will have a Dancehall Night for the first time in its history.

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Saw tells her rape story - DJ speaks out about terrifying ordeal

Ace female deejay Marion ‘Lady Saw’ Hall was raped as a little girl when living in the garrison but now several years later, she wants to tell her story.

In an emotional phone interview with the STAR earlier this week, Lady Saw told the STAR about her ordeal and the heartbreaking phone call that stirred up her old memories.

“I was here at home one day when a young girl called me, a teenager. She was crying; she told me she had been raped and I told her to go to the police but she couldn’t cause of the area she lived in. She was gonna kill herself. I told her not to ’cause she wouldn’t see God’s place if she did. It was so emotional for me and she asked me to do a song about rape for her,” Saw said.

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