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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Pulse

No rest for the intrepid

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20130711

The week­end past was one of those crazy, hec­tic ones. It be­gan on the Wednes­day night at De Nu Pub (The Mas Camp) with Night of Young Mon­archs.

With mu­si­cal ac­com­pa­ni­ment by Cum­mings and De Wail­ers, the cast was head­lined by 2011 Na­tion­al Monarch Karene As­che and last year's win­ner Du­ane O'Con­nor, plus De­von Seale, Helon Fran­cis and Michelle Hen­ry.

The pop­u­lar Wood­brook show­place was al­so the venue for the fol­low­ing night's Caribbean Nights, fea­tur­ing Pel­ham God­dard and Roots, and David Rud­der.

De Nu Pub was packed to its rafters on the Thurs­day, no doubt by so­ca fans who had missed the pre­vi­ous Sat­ur­day's mam­moth Rud­der 6.0 con­cert at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, as well as those who did at­tend but want­ed a lagniappe of the 1986 na­tion­al ca­lyp­so monarch. Seen in the huge au­di­ence were Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds; Front­line co-founder Wilcox Ray­mond; Nadie La Fond, Car­ol Ja­cobs and Na­tal­ie Yorke; Tu­co chair­man Lu­ta­lo "Bro Re­sis­tance" Masim­ba; So­lo Har­monites man­ag­er Owen Ser­rette; his Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus coun­ter­part Ainsworth Mo­hammed; and artiste Makem­ba Kun­le.

Rud­der didn't dis­ap­point his ador­ing fans as they surged to­wards the end of the stage, his per­spi­ra­tion sprin­kling those danc­ing clos­est to him. Rud­der's reper­toire in­clud­ed pop­u­lar hits Per­mis­sion to Mash Up de Place, Ca­lyp­so Mu­sic, Ham­mer, Dus' in dey face, Live Yuh Life (Like yuh play­ing mas), and Bac­cha­nal La­dy. The next edi­tion of Caribbean Nights at De Nu Pub is planned for Thurs­day.

Two more spec­tac­u­lar shows await ca­lyp­so lovers this month at De Nu Pub. On Wednes­day reign­ing Road March cham­pi­on/In­ter­na­tion­al Pow­er So­ca co-monarch Su­perBlue and "sweet so­ca man" Baron are head­lin­ing a star-stud­ded cast. Supreme ca­lyp­so­ni­ans, mul­ti­ple monarch ti­tle-hold­ers Mighty Spar­row and Black Stal­in will star on Ju­ly 24. Shows be­gin at 8.30 pm.

Last Fri­day, a sold-out Queen's Park Oval was in a fes­tive mood when the West In­dies faced off against In­dia in the Tri-Na­tion crick­et cham­pi­onship. Ex­pec­ta­tion was high for a Windies vic­to­ry, the home team hav­ing won its two pre­vi­ous games in Ja­maica.

With the Trini­posse Stand in good voice and ju­bi­lant mood, the day end­ed on a dis­ap­point­ing note with In­dia putting a good hid­ing on the WI, but that didn't quell the fes­tiv­i­ties around the grounds, com­plete with cos­tumed rev­ellers and live per­for­mances, in­clud­ing So­ca Elvis.

On Sat­ur­day, the girls of Hi­lar­i­ans (Bish­op Anstey High School) host­ed an­oth­er of their an­nu­al re­union lun­cheons at the Keate Street school hall. While the girls were re­new­ing old ac­quain­tances, the mem­bers of Wit­co Des­per­a­does were on their way to To­ba­go for the third episode of Pan in De Coun­try­side, in Spey­side.

They shared the lime­light with for­mer Na­tion­al Panora­ma cham­pi­on (Medi­um) Petrotrin Katzen­jam­mers, To­ba­go Pan-thers, Up­town Fas­ci­na­tors and Hope Pan Groovers.

Sat­ur­day night saw Guardian Me­dia Ltd pro­duc­ing Blood Line at White Oak Star­lift Pan Com­plex, on Mu­cu­rapo Road, St James.

This event was a fund-rais­ing ben­e­fit for pop­u­lar CT Vibe 105.1FM per­son­al­i­ty Derek "CG So­ca Gen­er­al" Sil­man, strick­en with kid­ney com­pli­ca­tions.

Host­ed by the sta­tion's morn­ing pro­gram­ming duo of George Gon­za­les and Er­rol Fa­bi­en, the ven­ture brought out sev­er­al artistes, all thank­ing Sil­man for his sup­port in their ca­reers.

South fans call­ing for en­core show

Mak­ing a sur­prise guest ap­pear­ance was David Rud­der, ac­com­pa­nied to the show by his wife Chris­tine, and even mak­ing an im­promp­tu per­for­mance, a cap­pel­la style, of Ca­lyp­so Mu­sic and Live Yuh Life (like yuh play­ing mas).

The lengthy ros­ter of per­form­ers in­clud­ed Su­perBlue, Black Stal­in, Denyse Plum­mer, Baron, Shur­wayne Win­ches­ter, D Mighty Tri­ni, D Di­a­mond, Col­in Lu­cas, KV Charles, Black­ie, Gary Cord­ner, Ken­ny J, Helon Fran­cis, K Rich, Ken­ny Mar­cellin, Derek Pa­tience, Jerome Bisses­sar, Earl Brooks and Star­lift.

On the turnta­bles ac­com­pa­ny­ing the artistes, and do­ing a su­perb job at it, was Sil­man's 13-year-old daugh­ter Crys­tal, a stu­dent of St James Sec­ondary School. She was lat­er joined by Vibe's Chris Boynes.

The event was sup­port­ed by a large turnout of pa­trons, in­clud­ing for­mer Coast Guard and De­fence Force col­leagues of Sil­man, led by Brig Carl Al­fon­so.

I saw Sil­man this week and he told me south­ern fans are clam­our­ing for a re­peat ben­e­fit in San Fer­nan­do.

It was back to the Oval on Sun­day for the Sri Lan­ka vs In­dia game but the weath­er had oth­er plans as an in­tense down­pour end­ed all play with the Sri Lankan in­nings in a pre­car­i­ous way.

The backs of the play­ers go­ing in­to the Bri­an Lara Pavil­ion for the day seemed to be a sig­nal to the Trini­posse Stand disc jock­eys to crank up the vol­ume for a par­ty, en­ter­tained by for­mer Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Ravi B. Pa­trons who had paid top dol­lar to ac­cess this stand rev­elled like there was no to­mor­row.

The fol­low­ing day saw the re­sump­tion of the game, its out­come de­ter­mined by Messrs Duck­worth and Lewis, not in the Windies' favour. A new ad­di­tion to the Trini­posse Stand was Sapo­phon­ics Steel en­sem­ble from Care­nage and its per­for­mance last Tues­day lit up the stand.

Crick­et week­end ac­tion ac­tu­al­ly ex­tend­ed in­to last Tues­day for the fi­nal of the tour­na­ment be­tween In­dia and Sri Lan­ka. In the Trini­posse Stand, the turnout was again in bois­ter­ous spir­it, this time fu­elled by the live per­for­mances of bel­ly dancer Nali­ni Akal, vo­cal­ists Rick Ra­moutar, Rish­ma Ram­lal and So­ca Elvis, plus Sapo­phon­ics Steel.

Sun­day's rain didn't pre­vent thou­sands from con­verg­ing on the Sa­van­nah, for the an­nu­al Prime Min­is­ter's Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion's Folk Fair. Com­mu­ni­ty groups from across the land came to the venue with a dizzy­ing as­sort­ment of in­dige­nous foods, the evening's pro­gramme sea­soned by some amaz­ing per­for­mances.

The live en­ter­tain­ment ac­tion con­tin­ues un­abat­ed this week­end and one of the big shows is to­mor­row's Youth Pan Ex­trav­a­gan­za, pro­duced by St Mar­garet's Boys' AC School Steel­band, from 2 pm, at the Sa­van­nah.

This show is a fol­low-up to last week­end's pre­miere held at the pan the­atre of Ju­nior Sam­my Group of Com­pa­nies Skif­fle, in San Fer­nan­do.

Join­ing the ju­nior na­tion­al Panora­ma cham­pi­on steel or­ches­tra will be St Fran­cois Girls' Col­lege Steel Or­ches­tra, bp Rene­gades Ju­nior Steel, Suc­cess Pan Sounds, Sand New York's Sonata Youth Steel Or­ches­tra.

This evening, from 7 pm, there's an af­ter-work pan show at Carib Wood­brook Play­boyz pa­n­yard, on Tra­garete Road, New­town. To­day's star act is cel­e­brat­ed arranger Earl Brooks.


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