PHOTOS: Curtains close on 2024 Emancipation Festival
The 70th Emancipation festivities concluded inside the Road Town festival grounds on August 10 with enthralling performances from local and international acts and awards for of the previously announced winners from the August Monday Parade.
The Road March 2024 title went to “Workout” by Juogo featuring Adam O. Coincidentally, Juogo also secured second place with his song, “We Here.” Juogo, a native of the BVI, is also the lead vocalist for the popular BVI band, VIBE.
Optimum Sky won first place in the Moko Jumbies category, while BVI Tribe took first place for the troupes. Culture Bearers were named the winning floupe, and District 1 Fishermen: Past and Present won the best float. The best steelpan award went to Friends in Steel.
During the final lap at the festival village, the BVI’s 2024 Soca and Calypso monarchs performed their winning tunes on stage.
LJ, the 2024 Groovy Soca Monarch, performed his song “Don’t Stop,” while three-time, non-consecutive winner Ramon G performed “VI Pride” as the 2024 Power Soca Monarch.
Young Blood performed his winning calypso song, “The Miseducation of Marijuana,” before things heated up when Bajan artiste Alison Hinds took the stage, performing her popular songs such as “Born With It” and “Roll It Gyal.”
The event saw a scattered turnout during different segments, with many attendees bringing their children to enjoy the Coney Island rides one last time, while others closed out the season by drinking and being merry in true BVI fashion.
This series of events concluded the 70th Emancipation Festival, which began on July 14 under the theme: “Celebrate Our Freedom and Live in Unity as BVI Festival Turns 70!” The celebration marked not only 70 years of culture but also the 190th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the BVI.
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AYO ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO COME HOME AND AYO RIPPED THEM OFF BY CHARGING TO CELEBRATE FREEDOM BY PAYING TO GO IN THE FESTIVAL GROUNDS
45 dollars for whelks no way
this the real ripp off
like everything else for sale, take or leave it and stop complaining. Buy it if you really want and can afford and leave it if you think its not worth it. shocks man.
Bring back the brass band to festival stages, parades and Dance Halls.
Bring the art of brass bands competition.
Bring back the art of arranging and high level instrumental performing.
Ban all recorded music playing devices from the stage, parades and Dance Halls..
Bring back good music and the cultural Art of brass, winds, percussion and electronics.
Bring back the paycheck for the hundreds of trained, capable and deserving musicians and arrangers to make a salary out of their emancipation too.
Bring back musical, financial and Musical Art equality to out celebration.
And yet again ended with a bang with the youths them getting into brawl with each other smh
I not surprised cuz yall still went ahead played songs that talks about violence
Older folks let me educate you with the songs played on halftime last night
skilibang- crocodile teeth – talking about guns ammo looking like crocodile teeth and shooting to kill
Byron Messiah – Taliban’s song- lyrics:violate people and yuh dead dawg- song talking about killing people for crossing you or getting you vex. Talking about guns with ammunition with long clips of ammo
Rajah wild- gogo song – lyrics – me like bad b**ch- song talking about only liking bad girls into criminal life and Street life
If you don’t believe me google the songs your self and read the lyrics
The youths were shouting and going wild for these songs when they came on…
But the same government preaching them want peace and to come festival but look what festival singing to them smh
That’s why I respected came garden bay culture festival
What we are seeing is not orchestrated by the youths. They are simply reacting to what is fed to them.
What we see is a diliberate attempt by some (non Black folk) to diminish the youth size/population.
It is the same play bookthe world saw being played out in America in the Hip Hop era untilit was called out and the culprits were indentified.
Hence, what is needed is a backlash to that type of music. Just don’t play it.
Last, beging educating the youth to the fact that they are acting out someone else’s script, and that they are sitting back laughing at them.
Its a backlash from slavery * segregation, mixed with warrior cultures of Africa. The blacks who were victims to lynching and encouraged into submission to not cross the white man for everyone on the plantation would be punished.
The militancy that was repressed and vented every so often by run away, marooning and slave rebellion… has no outlet in the aftermath of abuse.
As it is said by a European psychologist, the militant man attacks himself in times of peace.
Why do you think America & the UK are always going oversea for war to kill another race of people?
When they stop fighting overseas their countries will implode by self destruction.
They MUST engage in new wars constantly to ensure peace at home, not from the enemy, but from themselves.
Very interesting and psychological facts..