the very appreciative audience
spellbound,” he added. “By
then, it was quite clear that
this was going to be a show of
an extremely high quality; and
so, it was.”
Providence said the versatile
Oscar James followed with powerful
renditions of three “well
written and melodic songs.”
“He began with a social
commentary entitled ‘Commissioner
You Blind’, then an
up-tempo calypso called ‘Playing
with Me Head’ and finished
with a reggae entitled ‘Jah Jah
Guide My life,’” he said.
The usually well-dressed
Jakie had everyone partying
and singing along to his ragga
soca, “Come on over Here,”
and a hard-hitting commentary,
“Dem Judges,” Providence
said.
He said Curtis “Courtesy”
performed Dalpin’s “Behind
a Bumper” on which he was
featured; St. Lucian Fireman
Mitch, who had previously performed
with the Dynamites,
the lone Vincy calypso tent in
North America, “was outstanding
with ‘The Horns”.
Former Vincentian calypso
monarch D Man Age belched
out “Happily Married,” and
AI Carnival Producer Demarco is ‘Ryda’
torically marginalized communities,
can also be harnessed to
extend joy and creativity.
Funded through Mozilla’s
Creative Media Awards, “Artificial
Intelligence + Carnival
+ Creativity” celebrates carnival
while engaging Caribbean
and Black communities in discourses
about AI, its benefits
and harms.
Using carnival as a vehicle,
Mozilla’s Creative Media
Awards said the project creates
a space where Caribbean and
Black communities can engage
with, learn about and interrogate
AI to benefit themselves.
The project brings together
AI, architecture, digital heritage,
and art to create and
feature AI-generated dancing
sculptures, AI-generated Blue-
Devils and Jab Jabs in the carnival,
and an app for visitors
to create visual art through
their own body’s movement
and dance.
The project was created
by Dr. Vernelle A. A. Noel, a
computational design scholar,
architect and artist.
Rejector forced the crowd to
request an encore of “Unethical
Doctor.” Rejector also performed
“Hairouna.”
Providence said Bowman
offered three “very powerful
social commentaries,” which
“had the crowd dancing and
singing along.”
“But it was his final song
that really showed the very high
caliber of entertainer Dennis
(Bowman) is, rendering one of
his most powerful commentaries,
‘To Build Airport’, (which)
set the mood of a nail-biting
calypso finals at Victoria Park
(in Kingstown, St. Vincent and
the Grenadines) back in the
1980s and 90s,” he said.
“And when he ended, the
applause could be heard from a
great distance away,” he added.
Providence said a debutante,
whose chosen sobriquet is
“Persono 007,” “never looked
anything like a first-timer, with
a catchy hook line.
“His humorous commentary,
‘Sarah’, along with his
quite unique dance moves had
the crowd dancing and laughing
throughout his performance,”
Providence said.
He said Tricia Reddock
“added some variety with a
couple of poems, and was well
An Assistant Professor of
Architecture at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Dr.
Noel is originally from Trinidad
and Tobago.
Her collaborators are Dr.
Nettrice Gaskins, an African
American digital artist whose
work explores Afrofuturism
and techno-vernacular creativity,
and Valencia James, a Barbadian
performer and researcher
whose work focuses on the
intersection between dance,
theatre, technology, and activism.
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Calypsonian Rejector performs at the Brooklyn Dynamites Calypso Tent. Doug Howard
received by the audience.”
Providence said the legendary
Scorcher “came to ‘Wake
up the Party,’” adding that
Scorcher’s 20-minute medley
performance of his classics
“turned into the real party
time, which had the audience
calling him back on stage, and
he obliged.”
Another Vincy calypso legend,
Ron Pompey, brought the
curtains down with “another
astounding performance, with
a medley of his classics,” Providence
said.
As a result, he said “the partying
kicked into a frenzy, with
the audience requesting song
after song, and Pompey granting
their requests,” he said. “By
then, it was after 2:00 am Sunday,
and he ended by begging
them to let him go now, saying
‘I have to travel all the way to
New Jersey’.
“Everyone left asking the
Dynamites to do a repeat
soon before the warm weather
changes,” Providence added.
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Movement Painting App
– Created by the
movement of Valencia
James. AI Carnival Creativity
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vibing out with a beautiful
woman while donning designer
threads, complete with several
scenes rocking an ontrend
bucket hat in various
shades.
“The sexy beat has an
equally smooth message
to match as the crooner is
depicted professing his intentions
to treat his lady like
a queen, even as the façade
crumbles; or, in this case, as
the tenants return home to
spoil the fun,” Driven continued.
She said the dancehall star
is widely recognized for his
work behind the scenes, stating
that he is now “stepping
out as the genius behind the
sound.”
Driven said Demarco’s signature
singles “Fallen Soldiers”
and “I Love My Life”
are “well known and hugely
popular.”
“He’s produced some of
modern dancehall’s definitive
riddims, as well as crossover
smashes like Charly Black’s
‘Gyal You A Party Animal’
and written songs for artists
ranging from Bounty Killer
to Rihanna,” Driven said.
“More than a decade deep
into a career that’s taken him
from Jamaica to the States
and back again, Demarco is
finally set to release his debut
album, ‘Melody’, via California
based Ineffable Records
next month,” she added.
Connect w/ Demarco: IG:
@demarcodadon | TW: @
DemarcoDaDon | FB: @
Demarcodadon
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DYNAMITE NIGHT
Musical virtuoso Demarco drops video for track “Ryda.” @
obinxtdr