An­ge­lo Mar­celle

Bar­ba­di­an so­ca di­va Al­i­son Hinds gave a scin­til­lat­ing per­for­mance at the Tem­per­a­ture 3 con­cert last Sat­ur­day, at the Queen's Park Oval, Wood­brook. The show, which was sup­posed to be the biggest Car­ni­val show for the sea­son, cer­tain­ly kept it's promise. De­spite the non ap­pear­ance of Vy­bz Kar­tel, aka Adi­jah Palmer, the show went rel­a­tive­ly smooth­ly.

The an­nounce­ment that the artiste was not go­ing to be per­form­ing was made af­ter the ap­pear­ance of Ja­maican acts Shee­ba and Lisa Hy­per, who tried to com­pe­tent­ly sing three of Vy­bz Kar­tel's hits. The two went back stage and were seen whis­per­ing be­fore they came back out to make the an­nounce­ment. Loud jeers of dis­ap­point­ment echoed through­out the crowd. The two women were backed by KMC's Red, White and Black band. The oth­er artistes on the bill, how­ev­er, made the show worth­while.

Pe­ter C Lewis and The Or­ches­tra start­ed the night's ac­tion and fea­tured re­cent­ly crowned Syn­er­gy So­ca Star Five win­ner Machel "Metro" Pierre. Al­so per­form­ing with the band was for­mer Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch Megan Wal­dron and Ri­car­do Drew. The HD Fam­i­ly, which fol­lowed Traf­fik, has cer­tain­ly ma­tured with the sea­son. Al­so per­form­ing with them was Gen­er­al Grant, who sang some of his oldies like Shot Call and Pure Hate.

As thou­sands con­tin­ued to file in­to the venue, Al­i­son Hinds in­vit­ed reg­gae artiste Jah Cure on stage.

The reg­gae star col­lab­o­rat­ed with Hinds on a so­ca remix to his song Call on Me. Much to the ap­proval of every­one who in­vit­ed Jah Cure on stage with loud ap­plause, Hinds had the artiste singing and danc­ing with her in true Car­ni­val style. Hinds dubbed him "So­ca Cure."