Sean Nero

North-East­ern Col­lege and Friends closed the cur­tain on an evening of su­perb mu­sic- mak­ing on Sun­day, when cul­tur­al pre­sen­ta­tions in this year's Prime Min­is­ter's Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion con­tin­ued at Queen's Hall in St Ann's, Port-of-Spain.

Ap­pear­ing in the ca­lyp­so med­ley cat­e­go­ry, the choir thrilled cul­ture lovers with fun-filled ren­der­ings of songs, sym­bol­ic of rev­el­ry wit­nessed on Car­ni­val days.

Ed­win Year­wood's Road Is Mine; Bun­ji Gar­lin's Clear The Road and Farmer Nap­py's Chip­pin formed the reper­toire of North-East­ern Col­lege and Friends. With white paint­ed faces, the choir out­fit­ted in all black and ac­ces­soried by white gloves, had pa­trons groov­ing with their taste­ful treat­ment of the mu­sic items. The folk seg­ment saw Bel­mont/Free­town Cul­tur­al Arts and Folk Per­form­ing Com­pa­ny wow pa­trons with its reper­toire, com­ple­ment­ed by en­tic­ing dance rou­tines and it seemed pa­trons couldn't get enough.

Mean­while, D'Abadie Com­mu­ni­ty Group's aim to de­liv­er the best rep­re­sen­ta­tion of na­tion­al/pa­tri­ot­ic songs saw the out­fit ac­cen­tu­ate its pre­sen­ta­tion with a cos­tume in T&T's na­tion­al colour, a na­tion­al flag and repli­cas as well as pho­tos of past and the present Prime Min­is­ter of T&T, for its of­fer­ing of God Bless Our Na­tion. Per­for­mances were heard in nine cat­e­gories, but no mat­ter what cat­e­go­ry of mu­sic pa­trons fan­cied, no one could de­ny that groups from across T&T, were out to en­ter­tain.