Professionals, music aficionados and others joined a raucous group of EMC students to winess the second of the reggae Month series of concerts hosted in the College Amphitheatre and presented by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JARIA). last week's session, featuring mento kings the Jolly Boys (who wrote the book on raucous and raunch), was still being talked about.
But it was sanctification this week (at least to start) as Minister Carlene Davis and her group took the gathering to church, albeit maintaining a strong and very persuasive reggae beat in tracks such as "Healing Rain" .
After a welcome encore that saw hubby Tommy Cowan getting in on the act with a ironically faithful DJ rendition of Papa Levi's "Mi God, Mi King" it was time for the horns. Nambo Robinson and Idren workshop, including the visiting saxophonist Michael 'Bammie' Rose and unleashed a fusillade of ska classics that defied initial resistance and eventually had many in the fair-sized crowd rocking and skanking away.
EMC director and music vet Ibo Cooper and singer-disc jock-soon to be arts manager Heather "Brown Sugar" Grant shepherded the proceedings.
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