Irie Jamz
Festival Fills Nima Highway With A 5,000 People Crowd, Nima Highway
AUTHOR: Regula Rebel
Last Saturday night [9th
December] is by now rang out with a yellow felt pen on Irie Ites Studio's 2017
project priorities calendar as the year's gold crown date --- the Studio's
annual festival dubbed "Irie Jamz" had its successful maiden staging
on the Nima Highway, pulling to the venue a compact crowd of about 5,000
partisans.
Irie Jamz 2017 was truly a
huge success. It gave both the organizers and partisans a great memorable
euphoria and an ace carnival experience to live with.
ATTENDANCE
SCALE
While the right side to the Irie Jamz stage was holding about 450 people, its opposite left was holding a crowd just a bit less than 600 people. The fore space, which is the main stand, as expected to hold more held over 3000 people.
While the right side to the Irie Jamz stage was holding about 450 people, its opposite left was holding a crowd just a bit less than 600 people. The fore space, which is the main stand, as expected to hold more held over 3000 people.
The sum of the above
numbers is not even the total partisan head count, as 6 store storey buildings;
3 on each side of the highway, got their verandahs filled with partisans who
had earlier on escaped a heavy downpour that dispersed them.
It was a very busy night
for the highway since 8pm performance start time to 4:36am closing dawn when
Bullet Man shut the show down, performing right after Rudebwoy Ranking left the
stage.
FAN RESILIENCE AGAINST RAIN DISRUPTION
An hour or bit more to two
after main performance had begun rain started drizzling somehow weakly but
abruptly accelerated to a very disturbing heavy downpour which dispersed the
crowd in no time. The fore space of the stage got empty right then but
fortunately for Jamz, the buildings by the highway served as rescue havens,
they gave instant shelter to the partisans --- all their verandahs got full,
from first floors to the lasts.
Just when the rain had
abated, Irie Jamz had back to its fore space a troop of returnee partisans and
hundreds of new comer partisans who had then just arrived.
Be it elsewhere, the
festival crowd would have diminished to a small thick by the rain disruption,
but once Irie Jamz had a promising entertaining start, the partisans mustered
resilience against the heavy downpour which lasted 3 bad hours.
ABSENTEE
ARTISTES
Due to the prevalent heavy
downpour, most not-yet present artistes coming from rain-struck addresses
restrained. They unintendedly absent themselves from Irie Jamz, though they
were officially billed to perform. The absentee artistes are Scata Bada, AJ
Lyricx, D'Sherif, Renner, Blak Mexxiah, Burning Faya, Kamelyon, Iwan, Shinney
Boy, Rowan,Rashid Metal and Xali Hali.
PERFORMANCE
LIST
The following are the
artistes that came to perform: Rudebwoy Ranking, Ras Kuuku, Eye Judah,
Linguakat, Osagyefo, Jah Lead, Bwoy Louka, King Vuvu, Xhila Roy, Multi Rolls,
Madras, Sheperd, Boss Bae, Mz Freeze, Trigarzy, Wan Row, Bujwu Stingo,
Amillion, Alkaboss, X-Blankson, Rhymes Beenie, Bullet Man, Sean Taylor, Jahwyz,
Willing Wanna, Selah Bermah, Da Governa, Konkarah, Choky, Kay Tee, Ronny
Rorific, Ibrahim, Vybz Starz and others who chipped in to support.
SHAKERS of The NIGHT
On a fair sheet, every
artiste put out his best performance, but the remarkable few that shook the
stage hard and got the whole crowd screaming out so loud with their thriller
performances were: Boss Bae, Rudebwoy Ranking, Multi Rolls, X-Blankson, Ras Kuuku,
Alkaboss and Amillion.
Very classic performances
came from Jah Lead, Bujwu Stingo, Jahwyz, Sean Taylor, and Eye Judah.
SPECTACULAR
STAGE STUNTS
Artistes that added
theatrical extra to their art to serve something beyond the ordinary cliché
stage antics were: Boss Bae, Trigarzy, X-Blankson and Multi Rolls.
Boss Bae gave the crowd some
crazy seductive moves. Trigarzy was preceded by 4 gymnasts; the fore two pulled
up acrobatic stunts, the hind two held a bull horn staff......giving the crowd
some scary acting of soft mysticism.
COUPLE
MC'ing Cum SOLE DJ'ing
It was a meaningful
depiction of gender balance seeing Conscious Queen (Pink 96.9 fm) and King
Lagazee (Hitz 103.9 fm) on stage MC'ing together on the Irie Jamz stage.
It's always a perfect
stage marriage when the King and Queen MC an event. While the queen arouses the
audience's pleasure with her mild sexy wild voice, the king thrills them with
his husky Jabba-esque voice --- reminding everyone of the ever noisy Jabba, the
dancehall presenter on New York's Hot 97 fm.
Throughout the entire
performance time, Irie Jamz's console was solely controlled by DJ Nature Won of
Bank of Music.
Irie Jamz was organized by
Irie Ites Studio.
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Published on 13th December, 2017.
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