Free Online Concert Bridging the Caribbean with its Diaspora

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New York City, May 11, 2020: Under the theme ‘Saving Lives, Empowering People’ The Caribbean Voice (TCV), is organizing a free Facebook Live concert on May 23, from 6-9 pm.
Lushy Banton

The 3-hour event will bring together a range of performers from various Caribbean Islands and North America - singers, dancers, and hopefully others - to bring a bit of cheer into the lives of those at home and struggling with the COVID19 pandemic restrictions.

According to a TCV spokesperson, “This Concert for Hope’ is aimed at lifting up the spirits of those locked down at home, in quarantine or struggling with the coronavirus restrictions. As well, in true TCV fashion, this concert will showcase the ethnic and cultural diversity of the Caribbean world, and connect the Caribbean region with its Diaspora.”

The concert features a cross-section of music genres, including reggae, reggae fusion, soca, chutney, chutney soca and R&B and comprises singing, dancing, drumming, comedy and spoken word.

The star-studded lineup comprises: Guyana’s current chutney monarch, Bunty Singh; upcoming Jamaican reggae artiste, Garfield MacLean aka GMac; Trinidad & Tobago’s
 Omari Banks
cultural crossover singer, Anthony Batson; Philadelphia based Jamerican reggae fusion performer Lushy Banton (US); West Indies cricketer turned music star and motivator, Omari Banks from Anguilla; versatile Guyanese American, Rickford Dalgetty and Friends; the inimitable Roger Hinds, former Guyana chutney monarch and soca/calypso star; Guyana’s singing sensation, Charmaine Blackman; Florida based Chutney high flyers, Satish Udairam and Natty Ramotar (US); MC Drew P, Canada-based chutney star and radio personality; New York City based reggae artiste Pablo G; Reggae group Votsee featuring Jah Dover, out of California (US); Golden Om Dharmic Youth Dancers (Guyana); Teenaged author and poet from New York City, Anaya Willabus (US);  Buxton Fusion Drummers from Guyana; The Tarana Dance Troup from New York City (US); US-based Barbadian star, Toni Norville (US); Barbadian singing star Sherridean Skeete; US-based Guyanese singing star, Terry Gajraj aka Guyana Baboo; Barbadian born, New York City based seasoned comedian, Robert Sinck Sinckler; Chanique Rogers, US-based Vincentia singer/songwriter, and model.

Terry Gajraj
Hosts for this concert are Imran Ahmad, Aubrey Campbell, Narine Dat Sookram, and Dimple Willabus, all highly experienced, broadcasters, and emcees. Imran has been on radio and TV for over a decade with his very popular and highly rated radio and TV show ‘West Indian Today’.

Narine Sookram is also a seasoned multi-platform broadcaster out of Canada, who has initiated a number of different radio and TV programs that have won many awards. Aubrey Campbell is a media consultant and the producer/host of Caribbean Conversation, now airing on WVIP, 93.5 FM (NYC) and streaming on the Wee Radio Network at www.WeeRadioOnline.com, Sundays at 2-4 pm,
while Dimple Willabus, a household name, as host and CEO of Ryhthm Nation Entertainment. 

A number of Caribbean diplomats in Washington and various other Caribbean influencers will be delivering messages as well. 
 
Chanique Rogers
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