AN ELDERLY woman yesterday threw her hands in the air and completely surrendered to soca music at Woodford Square in Port-of-Spain as she took part in the Bmobile ‘Soca In bSquare’ free midday concert, which runs daily for this entire week.
The petite woman smiled heartily and pounded her chest and ‘ramajayed’ with gay abandon in the scorching heat as veteran Calypsonian Baron (Timothy Watkins) belted out his 1984 hit “Feeling It”.
Baron, who performed alongside Fay-Ann Lyons Alvarez and her husband Bunji Garlin (Ian Alvarez) with the Asylum band, were the first in the line-up of artistes who will perform at the Square this week. Bunji treated his fans to new favourites like “Runaway”, “So and So” and “Tun Up”, before going into a medley of old songs. He even delved into some free styling which hyped many of his fans.
His wife, Fay-Ann greeted her fans with past hits like “Start Wining”, “Heavy T Bumper” and “Call Meh”, before going into her collaboration with Baron “All Over” and then ending with “Miss Behave” .
Both the young and old took up virtually every inch of Woodford Square waving and swaying throughout the one-hour concert. Some who walked with their umbrellas to shield the sun found themselves swaying their umbrellas from side to side while others had their eyes fixed on the stage not wanting to miss out on any action.
Over the years, bmobile has donated to various charity events at the week long concerts. In what is the sixth year for this concert, bmobile will try a new approach and treat children from various institutions to VIP treatment and photo opportunities with their favourite soca star. Yesterday Chinapoo Police Youth Club and Kids In Need of Direction (KIND) were the first schools to be treated. Today’s offering will be Raymond Ramnarine and Dil E Nadan, Rikki Jai and K Rich.
