Strike up the band at Stardom
Dominica News Online - Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 3:19 PM
Section of the crowd at the event
A generally successful show that yielded a good blend of calypso and that chronicled a return “home” to the Sisserou Hotel/Reigate Downtown – that assessment of the first Stardom calypso tent for the 2012 Carnival season, from one of the Tent’s executive members, Davidson “Observer” Victor.
Observer admits that the crowd was slow to warm up to the performances at the start of Wednesday night’s show, but puts it down to the fact that many of the early songs were not uptempo numbers, coupled with the majority of the songs being new to most of the audience.
The Tent spokesman says he took heart from the performances of several calypsonians who were able to rouse the crowd, and singled out Cheko with his AM/PM number, Beno’s Gangsta King, and Unwanted who had the calypso-loving crowd rocking with his “Sa Yo Di Yo Di ‘(What they say they say).
Observer feels that others including Scrunter, Karressa, Logus, Twana and himself also performed creditably.
That, in contrast to the popular Sour Sour who was so “good to go” last year but on Wednesday night forgot his lyrics on stage and twice tried to stop the Swinging Stars band to get them to start up the tune again (they obliged once but later just kept on playing).
Sour Sour felt it necessary to apologise, and with a little encouragement from some in the audience, took the cue to bow out early.
But it was all in good fun as far as the cheering calypso fans who came out for their first real taste of live calypso were concerned.
Many of those who crowded the former Sisserou Hotel will also likely be seen on Friday at the Mas Camp Tent, eager for a fresh sample of Pat Aaron penned calypso and more, and hearing from a different set of calypsonians.
Copyright 2012 Dominica News Online, DURAVISION INC. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or distributed.
Disclaimer: The comments on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of DominicaNewsOnline.com/Duravision Inc. All comments are approved by DominicaNewsOnline.com before they are posted. We never censor based on political or ideological points of view, but we do try to maintain a sensible balance between free speech and responsible moderating.
We will delete comments that:
See our full comment/user policy/agreement.
13 Comments
Admin, when it comes to these entertainment type events we would appreciate a selection of photos like dno did in the past.
Sour sour come better than that from fame to shame to your many supporters, think of a better song for this year
rose means red blows is blows and shoe is exactly what it is a show…so he is basically saying red giving him blows with a shoe or in other words labour party giving blows with show which is their symbol…the shoe.
THE CROWD LOOK LIKE THEY WERE IN A MEETING.
TO ME SOME OF THEM WAS SLEEPING
isn’t sisserou hotel the same spot those Maydah just be nuhhhh…
I am lost.
add “velt” and change her to his…
Are you really? Well if you don’t get it then something wrong with your ability to interpret
my 2 pences. In my belief MAYBE it refers to what happened in the park at Creole festival when 2 women were fighting for a man. Man got beaten up after.
PS; I am the sole responsible for that interpretation
Roosevelt skerrit.the PM ,that’s who is rose,love this song
well we are on the same page!!!!!!! i listened to it twice and still didn’t get it.
Rose did her “JOB”. She only hit him once with her shoe so it was really one blow she gave him. Get it?
The Sour was really sour this time
Post a Comment