Spragga Benz’s Journey to Kingston brings Kingston nostalgia to Miramar

A collective gasp rolled through Miramar Cultural Center when three men lifted Stacey Mirander onto the stage, and the room locked onto the moment at once. In a showcase built on memory, the uplift made Mirander one of the night’s most memorable visuals and gave Spragga Benz’s Journey to Kingston a human face.

The concert landed in South Florida on Saturday, May 30, 2026, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Miramar Cultural Center theater at 2400 Civic Center Place in Miramar, Florida 33025. The venue’s 800-seat theater gave the event a tightly packed feel, and organizers leaned into the nostalgia with island-inspired décor, food and music designed to recreate Kingston in the 1990s and early 2000s. Spragga Benz, Wayne Wonder, Ky-Mani Marley and other guest artists were part of the lineup, while Benz said the point was to make the audience feel as if they were back in famous Jamaican dancehalls. Part of the proceeds were also set to go back to Jamaica.

Mirander fit naturally into that setting. Her YouTube profile describes her as an artiste whose Caribbean roots shape a blend of reggae, country and jazz, and her January 2026 single People Don’t Care showed the same reflective edge. Produced by John “JonFX” Crawford with Karl Morrison as arranger and vocal producer, the song came from Mirander’s response to what she saw as a painful hardening in how people treat one another after the pandemic. She had already brought that material to Clarendon College’s Easter Brunch on April 18, 2026, where she performed People Don’t Care and Have A Little Faith and joined students in Three Little Birds.

That is why the lift onto the stage mattered beyond the photograph. Journey to Kingston was not only a concert series, but a kind of cultural bridge, built to carry Kingston’s sound, style and feeling into South Florida and beyond. Jamaica Observer later reported that the May 31 follow-up at the same Miramar Cultural Center was sold out, with Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam presenting Spragga Benz with a plaque. That show pulled in Wayne Wonder, Beenie Man, Don Yute, the Marley brothers Stephen, Damian and Ky-Mani, Yohan Marley, Agent Sasco, Everton Blender, Pressure, Zumjay, Alley Cat and Kabaka Pyramid.

Observer coverage also framed the birthday run as a multi-city series with stops in Miramar, Philadelphia and Kingston, and noted that Spragga Benz first broke with Jack it Up in 1992. In that context, Mirander’s moment was bigger than stagecraft. It was a flash of recognition inside a room built to remember Kingston, and to show how that memory keeps moving through the diaspora.