Rockaway R.E.D: For the Love of Music

Feb­ru­ary holds the dis­tinc­tion of being the short­est month of the year, even at its most capri­cious dur­ing leap year.

How­ever, what Feb­ru­ary lacks in days it surely reclaims in auda­cious­ness heart! Feb­ru­ary is jam-packed with renown, whether it is the cel­e­bra­tion of the lives of our black stal­warts at home and abroad, the month we keep pace and raise aware­ness for our heart health, or the month in which we pay spe­cial homage to the leg­endary Bob Marley’s in the cel­e­bra­tion of his earth­day. “Could this be love?” he sang, and we well know, Feb­ru­ary is the month of LOVE and free­dom to move about in that love (for some who need an invi­ta­tion) as observed in the world­wide cel­e­bra­tion of Valentine’s Day.

Enter Rock­away R.E.D. “For the Love of Music”: A ‘move­ment’ with a pur­pose, poised to touch the hearts of a Fed­er­a­tion (St. Kitts & Nevis) on 14th Feb­ru­ary 2012 accord­ing to its unabashed orga­nizer and pro­moter Dr. Garfield Alexan­der.

“The acronym R.E.D. represents:

Rewind­ing the musi­cal clocks to the decade of the 80’s when we used to Rockaway,

Ele­vat­ing the qual­ity of enter­tain­ment within the Fed­er­a­tion and,

Danc­ing like you use to back in the days with­out fear or inhibition.”

Rewind­ing, Ele­vat­ing and Danc­ing is an inter­est­ing enough cock­tail, but the lure of qual­ity enter­tain­ment or enter­tain­ment with a dif­fer­ence, still begged the ques­tion of specifics regard­ing line-up:

Rock­away R.E.D. begins with the Spo­ken Word as some of our most tal­ented rhyming lyri­cists enter­tain us with the love in their gift and art! After which we will:

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REWIND TO THE DAYS OF “BOYZ TO MEN” with sooth­ing and melo­di­ous voices of the all male vocal group RANGE, who will ser­e­nade you with a few emo­tional bal­lads and a cap­pella harmonies.

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ELEVATE THE NIGHT’S EXCITEMENT with a live band on the musi­cal train of the ver­sa­tile ROYALTIES BAND with the All-Star entourage com­pris­ing of Mick Stokes, Mimi Arm­strong, Charles Miller and Rol­hen­sha.

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DANCE TO THE HITS OF THE PAST as DJ Ron­nie Ras­cal indulges your musi­cal moods with music from Pop artists such as Michael Jack­son, Duran Duran, Prince, Madonna, and Queen. The next wave will break­away to the archi­tects of Soca: Lord Kitch­ener, Super Blue, Lord Nel­son, Arrow, Byron Lee & The Drag­o­naires, Crazy, Becket, and more…

The Rock­away 2011 Rebel­lion in Full-effect!

This is the sec­ond rebel­lion of the Rock­away Move­ment. The first with the suc­cess of Rock­away 2011 where on the 26th of Decem­ber 2011, “gen­er­a­tions of grand­par­ents, moth­ers, fathers and youth at home and abroad met like fam­ily and rocked the night away to “Old School Music” and stand-out performances.”

“It was more than just a party or event, it sig­naled a land­mark par­a­digm shift in the way enter­tain­ment was viewed in St.Kitts-Nevis!” Alexan­der reminisced.

Rock­away R.E.D. desires to set the tone in 2012. Atten­dees are def­i­nitely invited to come out and cel­e­brate Valentine’s Day and love for their sig­nif­i­cant other– if they so choose; but more impor­tantly the event will be host to a cel­e­bra­tion of a col­lec­tive, cross cul­tural love­fest for 80’s Music and Culture.

“We stand firmly on our belief in this gen­er­a­tion of Kit­tit­ian and Nevisians as well as other Caribbean nation­als who remem­ber the days when they used to ROCKAWAY with­out fear, in a col­lec­tive energy and spirit of LOVE,” said Alexan­der. “From the loca­tion, to the lineup, to our hosts and extend­ing to our choice spon­sors, noth­ing has been left to chance!”

It would seem that the “Good Times Have Returned” and Rock­away as brand, as move­ment, as moti­va­tion is deter­mined once again to bring back ‘those days’ and con­tinue to usher in that new era of qual­ity enter­tain­ment in the Fed­er­a­tion of St. Kitts & Nevis.

What­ever your plans for Valentine’s Day, it is always a good plan, as Bob Mar­ley urges to ‘for­get your trou­bles and dance…’

If you are so blessed to be in the Fed­er­a­tion of St. Kitts & Nevis for V-Day, Save the Date and join the Rock­away R.E.D rebel­lion at 8p.m., Cloud 9 VIP Hall (Port Zante) and stay linked to Rock­away Rev­o­lu­tion (here) for ticket loca­tions, cur­rent updates and future events.

Photo cred­its: © G.Vision Pho­tog­ra­phy 201

ABOUT THE WRITER

Hi there, I’m Tynisha C. Leon, writer, West Indian, mango-lover, founder and editor-in-chief of DASHEEN mag­a­zine — the online des­ti­na­tion where cul­ture feeds imag­i­na­tion. Join the cul­ture con­ver­sa­tions on Face­book, Twit­ter and Tum­blr!

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