{"id":902133,"date":"2026-09-19T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902133\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:40:14","slug":"capleton-honoured-by-brampton-city-proclamation-on-his-return-to-canada-irie-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902133\/","title":{"rendered":"Capleton honoured by Brampton City Proclamation on his return to Canada \u2013 IRIE FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        September 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JC-PIC-AT-IRIE-FM-CONTROL.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Hasfal\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Written byRoger Hasfal<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CAPLETON-WITH-CANADIAN-MAYOR-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reggae\/Dancehall star Capleton, returned to Canada last week after a 11 year hiatus to perform at the Soul Food Festival Fire in the Park in Vaughn, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, he received a proclamation from Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton.<\/p>\n<p>The citation read in part, \u201cThe city of Brampton proudly acknowledges your dedication to the local community and your continued efforts to use music and the arts of bringing people together, inspiring others, and celebrating our city\u2019s diverse cultural heritage. Your passion, talent and commitment to the community have made a meaningful impact, and your contributions to the music industry, serve as an inspiration to emerging artistes and future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of Capleton\u2019s return to Canada, was when the veteran dancehall artiste arrived in a fire truck at last weekend\u2019s staging of the Soul Food Caribbean Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CAPLETON-ARRIVES-IN-FIRE-TRUCK-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iriefm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/capleton-on-arriving-in-firetruck.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/iriefm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/capleton-on-arriving-in-firetruck.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capleton added, \u201cI\u2019m known as the fireman who uses the fire as a metaphor for purification. My fire can never be put out so we used the fire truck as a symbol of my ever-burning passion in me for the music\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 19, 2026 Written byRoger Hasfal Reggae\/Dancehall star Capleton, returned to Canada last week after a 11 year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-902133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}