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Posted: Friday 26 June, 2015 at 10:14 AM

Kerwin Du Bois’ ‘No Apology’ mashed up Music Festival opening night

By: Staff Reporter, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Soca artiste Kerwin Du Bois left patrons in awe  last evening (Jun. 25) as he brought curtains down  on the opening night of the St. Kitts Music Festival that also saw a variety of other genres on show.

     

    The former T&T Groovy Monarch’s performance lasted some 35 minutes which began and ended with his 2015 hit ‘No Apology’.

    The night, traditionally called the ‘Soca Night’, saw thousands congregating at Warner Park to see reigning Culturama Road March champions open the evening in front of a small audience. 

    The Haitian group, T-Vice, though performing a style of music that was alien to most members of the audience, received very good responses from the then small crowd, especially from a Haitian contingent that had a front seat view.

    At the end of their performance, the Haitian contingent started cheering and called for an encore, which the band willingly obliged.

    From a French Zouk flavour, the night then shifted to Spanish renditions from Dominican Republic’s Tony Rosario with his Meringue-style music, which catered for another section of the audience that attended the event specifically to witness his performance.

    It was then time for the reigning Road March Champions, the Small Axe Band, which electrified the crowd that had then built up to thousands. 

    The renditions seemed to have affected the crowd in a manner that had many of them swaying and dancing while some linked arms and were uniformly running from left to right in time with the music throughout the band’s performance.

    What was also noticeable is although the rain had threatened to negatively impact Small Axe’s performance, most of the audience refused to seek shelter as they continued to enjoy the melodious sounds.

    Following the Small Axe Band’s performance, Roy Cape All Stars went onstage and provided musical accompaniment to Antiguan Soca Monarch Ricardo Drue and Blaxx out of Trinidadian.

    The two of them performed in tandem with Blaxx belting out his hit tune ‘Vagabond’ while Ricardo Drue dished out his 2013 hit ‘Leh Go’ as well as some other hit tunes from across the region.

    Ricardo Drue then introduced the Trinidadian Soca beauty, Patrice Roberts, who maintained the momentum as she went into the archives and unearthed some of her past hits.

    She, in turn, then introduced the reigning Groovy Soca Monarch of St. Kitts and Nevis, Mr. Bagnall, who came out singing his hit tune ‘Carnival Boss’ and had the crowd cheering and shouting "we want the boss".

    Bagnall’s performance was followed by Benjai, one of the artistes whose presence onstage the crowd eagerly awaited.

    Benjai whipped the crowd up into a frenzy when he performed the popular hit ‘Phenomenal’. However, it was Soca superstar Kerwin Du Bois  who brought the curtains down on the first night acts.

     He blasted out some of his hits that saw him grown into one of the biggest names in Soca music.

    Some of those hit were ‘Bacchanalist’, ‘Too Real’, ‘No Apology’ and ‘Circles’. 

    The Soca Night ended at approximately 3:00 a.m. 
     
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