Jamaican Reggae maestro Tarrus Riley has broken silence on his botched Kampala Concert that was scheduled for December 01, at Lugogo Cricket Oval.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy team and I are VERY disappointed but this is no fault of mine,\u201d reads the statement he posted on his official Facebook Page.<\/p>\n
Tarrus further revealed that performing in Kampala was going to be a dream come true because he had waited for this moment for the whole of his music career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is amazing how quickly we as black brothers and sisters tend to speak badly of each other without getting all the facts, I have waited my entire career and it was like a dream come true to play in Kampala, Uganda,\u201d said Tarrus before adding that;<\/p>\n
\u201cMy team has held this date for over three months only to receive an email from the promoters of the event two days ago which stated; Unfortunately, due to events beyond my control, our exclusive sponsor for the event, notified me only last week that they would not be fulfilling their contractual obligations\u2026Due to this situation I am asking that we reschedule for a time when I am able to generate capital and secure a diversified sponsor base to make the concert happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This website understands that the organisers haven\u2019t set another date for the concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jamaican Reggae maestro Tarrus Riley has broken silence on his botched Kampala Concert that was scheduled for December 01, at Lugogo Cricket Oval. \u201cMy team and I are VERY disappointed but this is no fault of mine,\u201d reads the statement he posted on his official Facebook Page. Tarrus further revealed that performing in Kampala was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[109,213,165,119],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-news","tag-tarrus-riley","tag-uganda-music","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}