Pe­ter Ray Blood

The ad­mis­sion fee of just $50 was a def­i­nite steal of a deal for the amount of mu­sic served on the night. Caribbean Night, held at De Nu Pub (The Mas Camp) in Wood­brook on April 19, billed as a birth­day cel­e­bra­tion for the late Lord Kitch­en­er, Roy Cape, Carl Ja­cobs and Tony Voisin, turned out to be a mu­si­cal feast, main­ly be­cause of a num­ber of im­promp­tu per­for­mances.

Head­lined by Pel­ham God­dard & Roots, fea­tur­ing vo­cal­ists Mori­cia Ca­gan and hus­band Nigel O'Con­nor, and David Bereaux, the show's first half served as a warm-up for things to come in its sec­ond stan­za.

The Roots playlist in­clud­ed an over­ture of David Rud­der hits, Sug­ar Bum Bum, Per­mis­sion to mash up the place, La Vi­da, Talk, Ca­lyp­so Ris­ing, Wan­na Make Love, She's Roy­al, Get Up and Dance, Song for a Lone­ly Soul and Swing.

In­ter­mis­sion tak­en and with sev­er­al ca­lyp­so fans, in­clud­ing for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Arnold Pig­gott, en­ter­tain­ers Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller, Du­ane O'Con­nor, Car­ol and Tri­ni Ja­cobs and Olatun­ji, Kei­th Subero, Mervyn Telfer, Di­ane Dupres, Bev­er­ly Smart, Di­ane Holdip, ra­dio broad­cast­er John Benoit, and Ka­lyp­so Re­vue di­rec­tor Wilton How­ell, in at­ten­dance, the sec­ond half opened with a cov­er of Lord Nel­son's Dis­co Dad­dy. It was af­ter the per­for­mance of Ca­lyp­so Mu­sic, So­ca Rhum­ba, Car­ni­val Ba­by and Rock Away that the ac­tion be­came more heat­ed.

Di­ef­fen­thaller was plucked out of the stand­ing au­di­ence to do a Kitch song and he oblig­ed, opt­ing for Bees Melody.

O'Con­nor vol­un­teered to do an­oth­er (The Road), fol­lowed by Kitch­en­er's daugh­ter Quweina Roberts, in at­ten­dance with her moth­er Va­lerie Green-Roberts.

With every­one singing her fa­ther's songs, Quweina de­cid­ed to ren­der a Carl & Car­ol dit­ty–From Now On–and was joined by Tri­ni Ja­cobs. Ob­vi­ous­ly in a singing mood, she asked God­dard to re­main on stage in the band's cho­rus line for the re­main­der of the sec­ond set which in­clud­ed Bac­cha­nal La­dy, Par­ty and a Ca­lyp­so Rose med­ley of Tem­po and Fire.

Al­so in the sec­ond half, two pa­trons won ham­pers singing a verse and cho­rus of two Kitch­en­er songs. David Bereaux's Trib­ute to Kitch­en­er con­sist­ed of three num­bers.

Think­ing that the show had end­ed, with Roots play­ing Su­perBlue's Par­ty, as pa­trons be­gan mak­ing their way out of the venue, they were sum­moned back as the 2013 In­ter­na­tion­al Pow­er So­ca/Road March cham­pi­on told his co-man­ag­er Charles Oliv­er he wished to do an im­promp­tu per­for­mance.

His 30-minute per­for­mance was the ic­ing on the cake as it com­prised many of his hits, dat­ing back to 1980.

The next edi­tion of Caribbean Night will be staged on May 2.