Come Sat­ur­day, Back-ah-Yard (Bay) is stag­ing Mys­tic: The Con­cert at its home venue, Boodoo Street, War­den Road, Point Fortin.Back-ah-Yard has been host to over 12 live con­certs since Sha­keela (Dix­ie-Ann Joseph) opened up her back­yard in March of 2006, fea­tur­ing Back-ah-Yard fam­i­ly mem­bers such as Max­imus Prime, Isaac Black­man & The Love Cir­cle, Muhum­mad Muwak­il, Broth­er Re­sis­tance, Mis­tah Shak, Sis­tah Ava, Atak­lan and Dami­an Melville.Bay pres­i­dent Sha­keela, who is re­gion­al­ly ac­claimed, will be record­ing live, her new al­bum Mys­tic. The fin­ished prod­uct is set to be a col­lectible, in DVD for­mat.She said last week: "As an artiste it has giv­en me such joy to use my gift of mu­sic, along­side fel­low broth­ers and sis­ters in mu­sic, to in­spire the lives of the young ones.

"Four dol­lars and Some Sense has been hailed by mu­sic crit­ics both at home and abroad as be­ing 'in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ready,' and al­though many would ask, 'Why aren't you fo­cus­ing on­ly on that'?, I say, 'In my soul I know I'm fi­nal­ly on the right path, one where I feel cho­sen to prove that when you give your life to pur­pose, pur­pose takes care of you."This DVD al­bum is some­thing peo­ple who love my work been ask­ing for for a long time. They say, 'Sha­keela we want to be able to en­joy you in con­cert even when we are not in the au­di­ence.' Well, here it is."The DVD is be­ing filmed "pro bono" by Pudgy Pro­duc­tions Film Com­pa­ny, owned by An­dre and Cheryl Crichlow. Sha­keela re­vealed the cou­ple was al­so re­spon­si­ble for the live film­ing of this year's T&T Nur­ture the Youth (NTY) Con­cert and has agreed to pro­vide state-of-the-art cov­er­age of the up­com­ing Re­gion­al Youth Con­certs, this year. She said Bay was "over­joyed."

Sha­keela said all pro­ceeds from this mile­stone event would go to the host­ing of the two NTY 2011 con­certs, to be staged at the Sal­va­tion Army Head­quar­ters in Kingston, Ja­maica, next month, in Ju­ly of this year, and al­so to­wards the first NTY con­cert to be held in St George's, Grena­da, in Au­gust.On April 20, at the Fan­ny Vil­lage Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Bay, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with At­lantic LNG, once again suc­cess­ful­ly host­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go leg of the con­cert.It catered to over 200 stu­dents from six pri­ma­ry schools, two sec­ondary schools and four vil­lage coun­cils from Point Fortin and its en­vi­rons, dur­ing Point Fortin Bor­ough Day Cel­e­bra­tions.Among the promi­nent peo­ple wish­ing Sha­keela and Bay suc­cess in their en­deav­ours was Min­is­ter of Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism Win­ston Pe­ters when he met with Sha­keela.This gift­ed pro­duc­er/artiste said the Min­is­ter ex­pressed a de­sire to as­sist Bay in ex­pand­ing this con­scious ini­tia­tive to oth­er is­lands re­gion­al­ly.

• Tick­ets for Sat­ur­day's con­cert cost $60 and there will be a dress code in ef­fect. Show­time is 8 pm.