BARBADOS - Jazz On The Hill 2005

Janelle Headley opening the evening of Bajan jazz. She’s the one Barbadians should keep their eyes on.

Janelle Headley’s debut performance at the Barbados Jazz Festival on Tuesday night at Heritage Park, St Philip, was dynamic and well received by the 2 500-plus patrons. < Read more >

Swing to salsa! - Sunday 16, January-2005

Everybody gather around now and let the Latin rhythms of timbales player, Tito De Gracia and friends, move your feet!
This troupe of dancers captivated patrons at Jazz On The Hill yesterday at Farley Hill National Park with salsa moves. Wearing red bandanas inscribed with Salsa Vida, the troupe, led by Majbritt Waageles, an instructor of Cuban salsa from Denmark (left) motivated others to join the action.

Compliments of the Nation News

Keys Unlock Hearts - Saturday 15, January-2005

Sloe-eyed beauty Alicia Keys was this photographer’s dream model as she posed patiently during an hour-long photo shoot yesterday morning on the picturesque Payne’s Bay Beach on the West Coast.

SHE’S COMING! SHE’S COMING!
That was the word on Payne’s Bay beach yesterday morning when American rhythm and blues superstar Alicia Keys appeared for a photo-shoot.

Preceded by her towering six-foot, nine-inch bodyguard, “Carter”, and with her mum Terri by her side, the petite Barbados Jazz Festival headliner strolled across the sands and plopped into a hammock, one of the props.

A murmur of approval spread through the small welcoming crowd of hotel guests, passers-by and watersports operators who had gathered quickly.

Instantly, her carefully made-up face, framed by a freshly-plaited cornrow hairstyle, the 24-year-old Keys relaxed as she broke into an almost shy smile. She adjusted the body-hugging, bubble-gum pink top, checked the ankle-length rolled up cuffs on her blue jeans, and took a deep breath.

While the Times photo-shoot was business, it was also a rare moment of light-hearted relaxation for the singer. She spread her arms wide to steady herself in the swaying hammock and grinned.

“It’s beautiful here and we like it very much,” Terri Augello, Key’s mother and personal assistant, told the Saturday Sun in a brief interview.

Compliments of the Nation News

Arturo Tappin: breathing passion into his tenor sax.

by Ricky Jordan

IF JAZZ CAN’T get Bajans on the dancefloor, calypso and spouge certainly will.

And that’s exactly what happened Thursday night as featured artist, Arturo Tappin, ended the Barbados Jazz Festival’s dinner set with a spouge number and a calypso medley at the Colony Club. < Read more >

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