The 19-year-old man who allegedly hit Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, who performs as Toots and the Maytals, in the head with a bottle on Saturday night has been named.
According to AP, He is William C. Lewis of Henrico, Virginia, USA. He has been charged with aggravated assault and public intoxication. A Richmond jail spokeswoman said on Monday night that Lewis remained in jail on US$3,500 bond.
The band’s manager, Mike Cacia, said that Hibbert performed at a concert on Sunday night in Westhampton Beach, New York Cacia said Hibbert only holds the bottle thrower responsible and has no grudges against the community.
Toots and the Maytals was performing at the Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival when the incident occurred in the latter stages of Country Road. The band stopped playing after he was hit, and it was reported that Hibbert was disappointed that the concert was interrupted.
Hibbert was treated at the VCU Medical Centre for the cut and released. Sunday’s acoustic concert at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Centre in New York was part of a stint that continues until Sunday, June 2.
For the acoustic tour, Toots and the Maytals performs with bass (played by Toots Hibbert’s son, Hopeton), a pair of backing vocalists, percussions, and Toots on lead vocals and guitar. Andrea Davis, part of the band’s Jamaican management team, said the stint to June 2 is part of a two-part acoustic trek, which resumes in the fall with shows in the US and Europe.
The acoustic tours follow the Grammy nomination for Toots and the Maytals’ Reggae Got Soul: Unplugged on Strawberry Hill album earlier this year.
Source-Jamaica Gleaner
