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I LOVE Rockwildaz! Always referring anyone who wants to know where the hot events are in Jamaica over to their Facebook page!
Rockwildaz Facebook
And they're on twitter too: @rockwildaz!
It's amazing how just doing something I love can make unexpected people take notice and lead from one thing to another! :-)
Rockwildaz website
As my friend (and the one who inspired me to take my interests to a blog of my own and off the small world of just my Facebook friends) said:
wow ....It's happening...Im telling you...that you are going to be a force from now on...they can tell you have some quality stuff......and the word will spread
Remember past blogs about Chocolate City, like this one and this one?
From my Facebook inbox:
THE BAND IS GETTING LARGER BY THE MINUTE AND YOU'RE STILL PROCRASTINATING!!! GET YOURSELF ORGANISED AND COME ON DOWN TO #29 STONE STREET IN PORT-OF-SPAIN TO REGISTER!!! THE MAS CAMP IS LOCATED JUST BEHIND POWERGEN AND IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS FINDING IT, WHICH YOU REALLY SHOULDN'T, JUST CALL US AT 623-4MAS!!!
CHOCOLATE CITY J'OUVERT IS GONNA BE THE SWEETEST EXPERIENCE EVER AND WE HAVE JUST THE RIGHT THING TO COOL YOU OFF... THE WATER TRUCKS!!!! WOWWWW!!!! THIS WILL BE AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE FOR YOU AND YOUR CREW!!! COME ON!!! GET YOURSELF IN GEAR... YOUR ALL INCLUSIVE J'OUVERT FANTASY AWAITS!!!!
AND REMEMBER, WE HAVE ALL THE STARS OF SOCA LINED UP TO ENTERTAIN YOU.............WHICH OTHER BAND CAN BOAST OF THAT?
Iwer George, Patch, Cassi, Eddie Charles and Traffik, Jamesy P and others...
Pics and screenshot from the Chocolate City J'ouvert Facebook page.
Have to say I like the increase (or at least increased visibility) of soca music events in Jamaica outside of Jamaica Carnival itself! I Love Soca! Check them out on Facebook and join the group if interested!
Bacchanal Jamaica announces their pre-carnival fete January 7 at Mas Camp (yes, that's the name of the venue) in Kingston, and the site also announces the official opening of Jamaica Carnival on February 18, 2011, also being held at Mas Camp!
Take note of the calendar below, the parade is Sunday, May 1, 2011! Yes it's late, it's usually in April...even Trinidad Carnival 2011 is running late, being in March instead of February...all tied to the Lenten season, Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday.
As the season warms up and the parties get wild the Bacchanal Jamaica soca season opens with the launch fete at Mas Camp January 7, 2011. Get those soca bodies ready to start the party with DJ Smoke of Renaissance and The Party Animal Kurt Riley as we ring in the New Year Bacchanal style 'Once Upon a Dynasty'. The website is up with costumes coming soon. More info to come! Have a safe and Happy Christmas - see you soon in 2011
Carnival season is kicking off for all the countries that have their carnivals in the spring! Get READY!
JAMAICA CARNIVAL 2011 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FROM Bacchanal Jamaica(click on pic for large version):
Review from TriniJungleJuice of the fete from which the last picture was taken.
Hopefully more people from the Caribbean countries and further abroad make the trip to check it out and enjoy! I hope to play mas in Jamaica possibly for 2012, God willing!
While Trinidad's two-day parade is held every year the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, Jamaica's parade is held every year the Sunday after Easter Sunday.
This brainchild of Byron Lee started as a very small affair in 1990 amidst negative critics and a host of failure prediction from the naysayers. Persistence, commitment and the desire to share the fun and bacchanal scene, and his experience of Trinidad carnival allowed, Lee set out to create something similar for the Jamaicans. The dream became a reality and today it has become a tremendous success as one of the largest annual event on the Jamaican calendar. Though many had tried their hands in times past at promoting a Carnival in Jamaica no one succeeded. Out of a dream that was natured over the years, came this pageantry that has become Jamaican Carnival.
The first staged parade was held in April of 1990 and had approximately 1400 masqueraders by 1998 that number grew to over 1.2 million.
In 1993 Eddie Chai introduced steelpan and to date has not received the acceptance of the general public. With the assistance of the Trinidadian Jouvert Band Mudder International, another aspect of Trinidad Carnival was introduced, Ole Mass but this faded with the introduction of J'Ouvert. The growth being as phenomenal as it was, caused even the naysayers to stand up and take notice, thus forcing the organizers to form a National Committee in 1996 to oversee the staging of the annual Carnival. .
Over the short period that Jamaica has celebrated Carnival, it has gone through many changes, creating a positive force that brings Jamaicans together. It is becoming very local with the emergence of the local designers and Mass Camps. Carnival has done the same for the Jamaican population as it has done in all other countries, united the population, created jobs and is also increasing the Tourism industry.
The reigns of leadership was handed over to one Russell Hadeed who took the baton and smoothly sailed the Carnival to its 10th anniversary. This also saw the return of the man who started it all, Byron Lee, who assisted with the organizing of the anniversary events. Under this new management, Jamaica Carnival is being taken into a new era creating a bigger and more spectacular event. These phenomena that is Jamaica Carnival evolved from a dream of one man and has enveloped the minds of many to become the reality that it is.
I found it on the umpteenth page of a Google search for "Trinidad Carnival 2011"...I like this one! But it made me realize I need a whole mix album worth of new music for the mp3!
Need fresh music to kickstart the working out in this COLD weather! (Exercise blog coming shortly, I accidentally erased some links I was trying to include when I tried to move them from one part of the post to another, ughhhh!)
All I have to say is, I NEEDED that recharge! Never let me go so long without some good West Indian vibes and fun West Indian peoples to party with again!
It all started Saturday night with me getting ready for a night out...I hardly dress all the way up since I haven't been doing many outings this year, but I must have looked especially amazing because my daughter looked at me after I got dressed anddropped her jaw and literally said, "WOWWWWWW MOMMY YOU LOOK SO PRETTY!" ... okay that's when I KNEW I looked good! lmao. So after that the nails done (and I never do my nails!), hair done (so easy now that I've been rocking it almost Amber Rose-short since 4th of July), EVERYTHING did! Hot like the song Fancy from Drake!
I missed most if not all of DragonCon because my daughter took a LONG nap in the day and by the time she woke up I thought it was going to be over, plus she wanted to go to the park so I said why not and we grabbed our ball and sneakers and took off in the car. Played for and hour and a half and she would have played some more! lol
I did go downtown and see the remnants of DragonCon, including a Jedi knight or some other Star Wars type robot dancing to hip hop music! But that was only because I was looking for this supposed spot Olympia Prime that was suppose to have Black Talon deejaying that night! Turns out the place been closed for over a YEAR! Moral of the story: call the number given in those Creative Loafing ads and make sure it's a working number before you waste gas going, because apparently they run some ads in perpetuity until someone makes them aware of the error. lol
ON to the rest of my NIGHT! Basically summed up as a one-night birthday party with DJ Stephen's mummy and other Trinis (who never know how to END a party, lol!) which turned into a 3-day party and lime! I had the BEST bake of my life, biggest too! Even one Trini guy said the bakes were dancing in his mouth (and that is another story, cause the soca and reggae was playing on FULL BLAST and the cook was wining up a STORM in the kitchen, as I told her she cooked all that food without firing up the stove cause all the heat was coming from her!)
lmao Definitely up there with my 4th of July as another great social WIN for Atlanta! I completely deviated from the schedule I posted up earlier but that's okay, because it's better to party with people who matter (and with all our kids around too, playing with each other!) than with a bunch of strangers who may not even speak to you whole night!
Big ups to DJ Stephen, King Apache, and B!!!!!! lol
A Jamaican guy who had never partied with Trinidadians before after his first time at the first party could only say "Trini party sell OFFFFF!" lol
Good food, good music, good vibes, and old/new friends! Good times! My friend's summary of his weekend (in a whole different state) exactly explains it for me:
Its been one hell of a weekend!!! Good times everyone good times!
This is a site run by the folks who bring you the Atlanta radio station 103.3 fm. Many of the hot urban artists, parties, concerts and events in and around the Atlanta area are found here!
Creative Loafing -- Atlanta is a free local newspaper available all over the Atlanta Metro Area that tells you all kinds of events and local people, places, etc. to try. From any genre. Whether it's indie, it's trendy, it's family, high-end or free, downtown Atlanta or Cobb or Gwinnett counties or even the racetrack south of town... all types of activities and information are available in this mag and it's online version.
AtlantaReggae is exactly what the name says: what's going on in the dancehall/reggae world in the Atlanta area! Many more sites for this too but more on those later.
Krushmore Entertainment (connected with AtlantaReggae, actually) has been around providing Atlanta with plenty dancehall, reggae and soca vibes for YEARS now! Check out the owner/promoter, True aka True Atlanta, on Facebook!
So what events are going on in Atlanta for Labor Day weekend?
First, EVERYTHING Creative Loafing has listed for this weekend is found here. Narrow by using filters on the left to find genres/types/dates specific to you.
Second, this is a screenshot of everything Krushmore Ent. is doing this weekend:
Now for what I'm interested in that's going on this weekend!
Men must be 25 and older to enter and Women must be 21 and older to enter. Free before 12 a.m. There will be 80s and 90s reggae, soca, and hip-hop. $10
AND last but not least, I've been invited to DJ Stephen's mom's birthday party! That lady is the reason I was ready for anything my first time playing mas! I'm definitely going to hail her up and take in some soca vibes!
Sunday September 5:
Church in the morning at Decatur Bible Chapel:
Might not make this but it's free, and family-friendly, and I LOVE En Vogue...but where the heck is Union City, GA? Sounds FAR man!
Labor Day Concert (September 5th)
Union City is proud to offer residents and visitors a series of special events in 2010. Join us on Sunday, September 5th and celebrate the music of the world famous music group, Envogue. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets. Listen to great music, enjoy delicious food from our excellent food vendors, or receive one of our free hospitality promotional items. Gates will open at 6:00 p.m. (Union Station Mall, formerly Shannon Mall) with the actual concert starting at approximately 8:00 p.m. The mall is located at 1000 Shannon Mall.
For additional information, please call (770) 964-2288 or send us an email atucevents@unioncityga.org
There IS also a Ludacris celebrity basketball game going on...
I'm interested cause I've never been to one.
However, I'm not feeling that for that day...but if you're interested:
AAAAND B-DEE B-DEE B-DEE THAT'S ALL FOLKS!
Restaurant reviews coming after I check one or two out!
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