Trench Town is hailed globally as the home of reggae. The same can be said for funk music and Dayton, Ohio.

On March 30, groups from those influential areas will perform in Trench Town on the Luv Locz And Friends show at 6th Street.

Mau Mau Warriors and Luv Locz Experiment, from Dayton, will bee featured artistes.

Junior “Icientcy Mau” Williams, of the Mau Mau Warriors, told the Jamaica Observer that the event is a celebration of Trench Town’s musical achievements.

“The real concept of Luv Locz And Friends is simple. Trench Town has been so special to us, been one of the richest places within the reggae Jamaican heritage, it’s only fair to do our first show with Mau Mau Warriors and many other friends that we have met since being here. This is very special to us,” he said.

Two years ago, Mau Mau Warriors did a remix of Black Man, a song originally released by Natural Onyx, one of the singers in Luv Locz Experiment. She also visited Trench Town and agreed with her hosts that there should be follow-up projects.

Dayton has produced several funk legends, including The Ohio Players, Zapp and Lakeside, and Slave, who dominated rhythm and blues charts in the 1970s and 1980s.

Natural Onyx’s father was lead singer in two reggae bands — Buffalo Soldiers and Lifeline.

Luv Locz Experiment was founded in 2016 and is a self-described international Caribbean collective.

Previously known as Junior Ranking, Williams embraced Rastafari after discovering the heroics of the Mau Mau tribe during the 1950s in colonial Kenya.

Raised in Trench Town then Central Village, St Catherine, he has recorded several songs as Icientcy Mau, including Journey Continues, dedicated to those freedom fighters.