Shenseea, Machel Montano named among emancipation festival line-up
The 70th Emancipation Festival promises a variety of acts for this year’s festivities, featuring new wave dancehall artiste Rajah Wild for Wild Out Wednesday and Jamaican-born artiste Shenseea for International Reggae Night.
The festivities will run from July 14 to August 10, with performances by Skinny Fabulous, Triple Kay International band, Adam O, and St. Kitts-based band Nu Vybes.
Destra, the renowned Queen of Bacchanal, is also set to perform at this event.
The headliners for the event, announced at the BVI Music Festival, include Dexta Daps and Machel Montano for International Reggae Night and International Soca Night, respectively, on August 2 and 3.
Virgin Islands native Monea is slated to perform at Flag-O-Rama.
The 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival Village will be named in honour of Jost Van Dyke native Larina Loretta Jacobs-Lamothe, affectionately known as “Rena”.
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Well look wha festival come to!….well meh boy!
Is this our normal festivities or a music festival? Why should I have to pay to celebrate freedom?
Who are these unknowns, and why are we paying them? Why aren’t the heritage dancers and Mrs P appearing?
I guess BVIEC ain’t getting paid any time soon!
Only free nights can see me at carnival if O even go. The line-up sucks as always. All these artists come every year. The government won’t spend our money good to bring good people in. Every year they collect big money and still no new artist. St. Thomas is free every night and Pure big artists on every night. This government needs to answer we the people questions but they won’t. Boycott carnival because you seen these people already. Sit in your car or outside and listen to them. I bet the puppets will have to do better. Stop letting them walk over you all.
Not ah single local or regional band or artist is being featured in our Emancipation Cultural Festival! This is what we come to? What a shame! Slowmande and Luz should be ashamed of themselves! This is who we are as Virgin Islanders?
Adam O is from Virgin Gorda.
Monea is from Tortola.
He people from VG not he. And even if you add them 2 and Monea is my family, it still isn’t enough to erase the BS Of this carnival.
Stop calling the girl name, she has nothing to do with this ok. The people of the BVI need God in they life, but time will tell.
Outsiders do not have the powers to make these decisions!!
Ayo need to stop
Ayo own people whom head the committees and on these committees
Since when did BVI festival celebrations become a music fest? Where are the local bands(there are a lot of good ones) and why are we paying to see these foreign artistes???
Ayo say Ayo don’t like down island people but Ayo going to pay to see down island people come and take Ayo money and take it back home in a de yard.
But when the white pl dem take it to the money to their country y’all dont talk about that..check all those yatch companies workers and they live on the boats so they don’t pay rent then go home with it all but the yardies are the ones to go these shows, buy food etc but no they are y’all worst enemy
GOD DON’T LIKE UGLY
These are also considered role models.Please get your education while you vibing ok.They have theirs to fall back on..thank you.
Roads and schools still need to be fixed while thousands of dollars are going into these artist pockets.
This line up SUCKS
If they are staying in VG they should know the armed response unit is new on the job. Dont expect that expert policing you get elsewhere.
Same set of people over and over , just couple new artist
Paying off for Destra LMAO we tired of watching her diaper bounce around
What happen to Bands from USVI Jam Bang, Cool Sessions and the others. What about Bajan, Antigua, and Dominica bands or Artists? If you not going to let entrance be free, please be darn considerate and lower the fees. People already struggling below poverty line,but yet you want them to support what suppose to be a celebration of freedom. Stop trying to undermine the people by bringing these folks and paying an arm and a keg in essence of saying that’s what the people want and then charging these elaborate and outrageous fees. You all(Festival Committee) needs to meet with the people and listen to what they feel would encourage them to participate and support our Festival. Sorry for the booth owners, but people just need to stand around outside and socialize while listening to the music. Don’t pay a dime to enter. Let’s here them(carnival Committee) complain about how locals don’t support when it is they the Committee oppressing the People along with the clown running the show.
crooks; all thieves; all momey mongers them all, in every aspect of society.
For the love of money he would kill his own mother or father.
Greedy, greedy greedy theyall are, not just the politicians. They juston a another level. Bigger numbers and different ethds available to them.
Destra was always sexy
She didn’t need a bbl
Study how much of u all
Getting bbl
Ain’t no secret destra have a good body and if she got a bbl she jus was playing farse
She really didn’t need it unlike all
Those who getting rounds and rounds cause they shape like a box or bag of grass and still despite all
The rounds look like diapers and or strippers especially the man’s shape ones who still look like a man jus with a bbl
Machel is the soca king of the world
He will pull a crowd like magnet
Vibes and brokness. Is a thing
To be honest. The line up socks. As 70 they should of have better line up. They needed a good raggae night. Good soca night live band etc.
Just like I said! Last year they brought all the top artist now big 70th look at this lol smhhhhhh #dumb!
I tired of destra and cocky shenseea again strupes need artist like chronic law them kind artist.