Every­body's Moth­er's Day Sat­ur­day Con­cert is sched­uled to be held at the Brook­lyn Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts, Brook­lyn Col­lege, on May 11 where five dis­tin­guished moth­ers will be ho­n­oured.

All artistes on the show's billing are cur­rent and for­mer mon­archs, or com­pet­ed in ca­lyp­so and so­ca monarch fi­nals. Icons set to per­form in­clude Ca­lyp­so Rose, Re­la­tor and Short Pants, plus pop­u­lar so­ca stars Iw­er George, Tall­pree, Mikey, Heather Mac In­tosh, Yankey Boy and 2013 Groovy So­ca Monarch of Car­ri­a­cou, Grena­da Jer­maine "Su­per­star Jer­maine" Si­mon.

Hon­orees

Every­body's Moth­er's Day Sat­ur­day

Con­cert hon­orees in­clude:

Sylvia G Ash

Ash is a Jus­tice at Kings Coun­ty Supreme Court. She is daugh­ter of Vin­cent­ian and Grena­di­an parent­age. Born in T&T, she spent her child­hood years in Eng­land, came to the US as a late teenag­er, com­plet­ed high school and en­tered Howard Uni­ver­si­ty Law School.

Sybil Chester

Chester was born and raised in Guyana and par­tic­i­pates in nu­mer­ous ed­u­ca­tion­al and char­i­ta­ble projects in Guyana. As a pro­fes­sion­al, she is a na­tion­al mar­ket­ing ex­pert and or­gan­is­es the brands she rep­re­sents at the Os­car, Gram­my and oth­er ma­jor events.

Ivy Hue

A home­care at­ten­dant, Ivy Hue was born in Kingston, Ja­maica. She felt the wrath of Su­per­storm Sandy when her Coney Is­land home and car were de­stroyed. The mod­est and in­de­pen­dent Hue is not de­pend­ing on gov­ern­ment as­sis­tance with its red tape and bu­reau­cra­cy to re­build. She is do­ing it the old fash­ioned way, by her­self.

Dame He­len B Lu­cas

Un­like to­day's im­mi­grant who flies to the US, Dame Lu­cas sailed from Car­ri­a­cou, Grena­da in 1937 to El­lis Is­land, the then main port of en­try to the US. She will be 95 on No­vem­ber 4, and she lives alone, us­es tran­sit bus­es and is an el­i­gi­ble bach­e­lotte. In the 1950s, when some mem­bers of the West In­dies del­e­ga­tion seek­ing a West In­di­an fed­er­a­tion passed through New York from Eng­land, such as TA Mar­ryshow, they were ac­com­mo­dat­ed by He­len B Lu­cas.

Michelle Young

Michelle Young is ac­tive with­in the Trin­bag­on­ian com­mu­ni­ty of New York. She is al­so a writer. Last Au­gust, the doc­tor gave Young very bad news and in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber she had surgery. She con­tin­ues treat­ment. Both Ca­lyp­so Rose and He­len B Lu­cas are sur­viv­ing breast can­cer pa­tients for many years. The ex­cel­lent health they are en­joy­ing give Young rea­sons for high op­ti­mism and longevi­ty.