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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The many moods of Roy Cape

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Be­ing in Guyana for a few days pre­vent­ed me from do­ing my usu­al kind of Fri­day col­umn. But, on my re­turn home, I was pre­sent­ed with two sen­sa­tion­al events to pub­li­cise.The month of May is re­gard­ed by most coun­tries in­ter­na­tion­al­ly as the month where moth­ers are recog­nised and sev­er­al events are host­ed through­out this month to cel­e­brate our moth­ers.

On Sat­ur­day, May 21, in their sec­ond an­nu­al Trib­ute to Moth­ers event, Roy Cape All Stars presents-The Many Moods of Roy Cape-at the Saly­bia Na­ture Re­sort and Spa, To­co Main Road.On the billing are the All Stars' Blaxx, Ri­ta Jones and Olatun­gi; Dil-e-Nadan, fea­tur­ing Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine; T&TEC Gay­a­tones, fea­tur­ing Os­car B and Avinash Ma­haraj; plus Ben­jai, Black Stal­in, Rik­ki Jai and a num­ber of guest artistes, in this pre­mi­um all-in­clu­sive event from 4 pm to mid­night.

This an­nu­al fund-rais­er con­tin­ues to dis­play the tal­ents of Roy Cape for his in­cred­i­ble work over the last 50 years and be­yond in the de­vel­op­ment, pro­mo­tion and main­te­nance of So­ca mu­sic, and to the es­tab­lish­ment of The Roy Cape Mu­si­cal Benev­o­lent Fund to as­sist in the de­vel­op­ment of young mu­si­cians and So­ca artistes in the lo­cal fra­ter­ni­ty. I know you are in­ter­est­ed in at­tend­ing, so call 684-0557, 684-9147, 397-4508 or 691-3210 for book­ings. Al­so ask about the week­end pack­age spe­cial at the Re­sort.

Mean­while, back on the ranch

Pic­ture a venue hid­den away in more than 100 acres of lush green­ery. Bask in the open air at­mos­phere un­der the moon­light.Pic­ture the su­per­stars of the An­droid Rid­dim Live on one big stage for one night on­ly.Pic­ture the out­door swim­ming pool, next to the pre­mi­um drinks bar and stage. Pic­ture 300 women in swimwear, mov­ing to the beat of the hottest dance­hall rid­dim in the Caribbean right now.That's right...it's the An­droid Rid­dim Video re­lease par­ty, fea­tur­ing per­for­mances from the biggest names in dance­hall, at the Ranch, La Floris­sante, La Re­source Road, in North East Trinidad, to­mor­row evening, from 6 pm.Among the artistes of this genre billed to be fea­tured are Squeezy Rankin, Chin Mis­chif, King David, Buffy, Syn­er­gy So­ca Star win­ner Ras Star, Raskal, Screwz, Kazee, Skul­ly and Nam45 from the GTM, Toron­to's Uz­man, Moi­ika from Los An­ge­les, B Sug­ar, Mar­ley Palmer, Ma­Ha, La­dy La­va, and Scarz.

Al­so on stage will be pop­u­lar disc jock­eys like Trevlyn and Die Hard, Im­mor­tal Vy­bz, and Hans and Gonzo.Al­so mak­ing guest ap­pear­ances are two Eu­ro­pean jocks, name­ly DJ D One, rep­re­sent­ing Jam Mas­ters, and Herbal­ize-it of The Dutch Cham­pi­on Sound.The An­droid Rid­dim Video will be pre­miered on a huge 15-foot screen, and it's your op­por­tu­ni­ty to see it be­fore the rest of the world.Or­gan­is­ers have as­sured that there is a huge car park and se­cu­ri­ty for all parked ve­hi­cles, and there will be strict­ly no park­ing in the road.

Pe­ter Ray Blood

e-mail: blood­line@ttol.co.tt


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