LISF2026 Day3: Rock Steady 60 on the Dixie Queen Thames cruise w/ Keith & Tex + Roy & Yvonne....
Schedule
Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 12:15 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Tower Pier - Dixie Queen Boat | London, EN
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5 more artists announced for The London Int'l Ska Festival 2026!
On day 3 of #lisf2026 we are honoured to be celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rock Steady with our world exclusive Rock Steady 60 show on the beautiful Dixie Queen paddle steamer! It is set to star genre legends - Keith & Tex and Roy Panton & Yvonne Harrison. Plus your host DJ for the afternoon, London’s very own - Oxman (Soho Radio / Soul Jazz sound system / Dub Vendor). Plus more to be announced! They even open Tower Bridge for us!
World renowned Jamaican rocksteady duo, Keith & Tex aka Keith Rowe and Phillip "Tex" Dixon, rose to fame with producer Derrick Harriott in the late 1960s, when they recorded timeless examples of rocksteady - Stop That Train, Tonight, Don’t Look Back, and Hypnotizing Eyes, to name just a few. Shockingly they only made their debut UK in 2014, but what an unforgettable show it was... at The London Int’l Ska Festival onboard the very same paddle steamer! The sold-out crowd rose the roof. Don’t miss this opportunity to see their return!
Whether it be as a duo or solo artists Roy Panton & Yvonne Harrison are true ska and rocksteady pioneers, who appeared on the 1964 classic This Is Ska film alongside; Prince Buster, Toots & The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Stranger Cole, Monty Morris and Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, with Yvonne being the only female artist on the bill. Having recorded for Studio One, Duke Reid, Rio, Caribou, Island, Caltone, Blue Beat and many other classic Jamaican labels, they were there at the start of ska music and helped establish the rock steady era with bonafide classic tracks - Roy’s sublime Endless Memory and Yvonne’s Near To You which she recorded with The Skatalites’ Tommy McCook.
All four singers are making exclusive and ultra-rare UK performances! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these legends on a truly beautiful and unique venue while sailing the Thames!
Please more to be announced!
There are 10 NY sale tickets (gets you £10 off per ticket) left at https://buytickets.at/hotshotscorcher/2003267
And 10 Group Tickets (4 people for the price of 3) left at https://wegottickets.com/f/15142
Or you can buy The London Int'l Ska Festival 2026 wristband 2 ticket which gets you into this Rock Steady cruise and all 3 days shows except The Selecter Thames cruise. There are 14 wristband tickets left in our NY seal (that gets you £50 off) at https://buytickets.at/hotshotscorcher/2003110
The London Int'l Ska Festival... celebrating ska, rocksteady, reggae, 2 Tone & beyond since 1988!
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