Jamzone Chutney Night Super Concert 2012

Jamzone Chutney Summer Concert Poster 2012
Jamzone Chutney Summer Concert Poster 2012

Over twenty artistes and bands for Jamzone Chutney Summa Super Concert
Early bird tickets go on sale this weekend

Over twenty of the world’s hottest Chutney/Bollywood and Film artistes and bands will be in Guyana next Saturday to perform at the Jamzone ‘Chutney Summa’ Super Concert! It’s expected to be one of the biggest shows of the year! Ashnee Singh and the 2Famous Band are coming all the way from Holland for the occasion along with Caribbean’s best crossover band Karma, Rakesh Yankarran, Chris Garcia, Videsh Sokhoo, Rick Ramoutar, De Hitman and Hunter among many others.

Early bird tickets for this mega event will be on sale this Saturday only at Ashmins Trading for just $1000. Ensure to head down to Ashmins on Saturday because it will be the only day the early bird tickets will be available for Chutney Summer. Regular general admission tickets are $1,500 at Ashmins Trading with tickets being sold for $2000 at the gate while VIP passes can be purchased from Glamour Designer Brands for USD$50. These tickets will be in stores until next week.

Get your tickets as soon as possible to secure your spot in the hottest Chutney mela of 2012.

Elephant Man, Macka Diamond, Spice, Rick Ross for Jamzone International Night 2012

Jamaican Dancehall Artist: Elephant Man
Jamaican Dancehall Artist: Elephant Man

Elephant Man, Ashnie Singh and 2 Famous Band of Holland ready for Jamzone Summer Break 12!

We’re just two weeks away from the staging of Guyana’s greatest entertainment festival! The artistes and entertainers are doing final rehearsals, stages and venues are being prepared and the organizers are working assiduously to ensure Jamzone celebrates it twelfth birth anniversary in grand style!

This week, the Jamzone updates are hot! One of Jamaica and Dancehall’s brightest stars, Elephant Man will be joining Rick Ross, Spice and Macka Diamond on stage at the 2012 Jamzone International Night concert! This artiste, also known to fans as the ‘Energy God’ is the responsible mastermind behind the idea of making Dancehall music fun. His energy-infused, free-spirited, catchy songs coupled with unforgettable stage presence makes him one of the most loved and respected Dancehall artistes in the industry. His most popular hits include ‘Wille Bounce’, ‘Nuh Linga’, ‘Signal di Plane’ and ‘Pon di River, Pon di Bank’ which snagged him a Source Award for Dancehall/ Reggae Artist of the Year along with a MTV Music Award nomination. Elephant man has also enjoyed several chart-topping collaborations with Lil’ Jon on the “Get Low Remix,” R. Kelly on “Reggae Bump Bump,” Pitbull and Daddy Yankee, Kat DeLuna and Janet Jackson on ‘All Nite (Don’t Stop)’ which was performed on stage at the 2004 BET Awards.

Also, two of Holland’s top Chutney entertainers, Ashnie Singh and the electrifying ‘2 Famous’ band have joined the huge cast of the Jamzone ‘Chutney Summa’ concert which includes top acts such as the incredible Karma Band, De Hunter, Terry Gadraj, Soca Elvis, De Hitman and Rakesh Yankaran among many others! This event is billed for August 18th at the Guyana National Stadium!
Twelve years of success is certainly a monumental achievement that deserves an unforgettable commemoration. This year, we are sparing no efforts to ensure that Jamzone Summer Break 2012 goes down in history! In addition to an incredible musical experience, one will definitely enjoy all the attractions only Jamzone can offer.

Stage set for ‘Real’ Bollywood Divas Mega concert in Guyana

Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan (photo taken from last.fm)

With contracts signed and the National Stadium booked all roads lead to the venue for a real Bollywood concert featuring four mega acts dancing and singing in true Bollywood style in Guyana. Through collaboration with Guyanese and Europe based officials boasting decades of experience, Lux Entertainment has been formed and is ready to take Guyana entertainment offerings to another level. “Think of three or more hours of live performances from names straight out of Bollywood: Sunidhi Chauhan, Neha Dhupia, Riya Sen, Rakshanda Khan…we have got them on contract already!” This concert billed for October 29, will redefined mega concerts in Guyana.

Over the years we have seen a plethora of International shows featuring names from Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados. Most recently some have tapped into the North American market while bollywood has only been brushed. We are not brushing; we are digging deep into an industry that’s considered bigger than Hollywood, hence, this mega event. Bollywood Divas Mega Concert is our private imitative aimed at showcasing to the rest of the world that Guyana is as good a venue as any other country to stage mega events. It also is aimed at attracting tourists to the local shows as these artistes are not billed for any other Caribbean country but are celebrated in most. Our package guarantees a real full length enlightenment of dynamic and entertaining showcase for all despite of culture or creed.
Meet the Divas

Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood Such as ‘Desi Girls’, Sheila Ki Jawani, Aaja Nachle and Mere Mehboob etc. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs. She’s is also an excellent exotic high energy Live stage performer. Her breakthrough was Ram Gopal Varma’s film Mast, in which she sang the hit song, “Ruki Ruki Si ZindagiShe has been nominated for fourteen Filmfare Awards, winning it on three occasions. She has won two Star Screen Awards, two IIFA Awards and one Zee Cine Award. And she’s still in Bollywood churning out Movies todate.

Nehia Dhupia
Nehia Dhupia (photo taken from gobollywood.com)

Neha Dhupia
Neha Dhupia is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is a former beauty queen and winner of Femina Miss India 2002 and placed in the top ten for the Miss Universe 2002. Dhupia made her acting debut in a play in New Delhi called Graffiti. Thereafter she appeared in a music video for Indipop band Euphoria and also modeled for various advertisement campaigns. She then appeared in the TV serial “Rajdhani”. In 2002 she entered the Femina Miss India pageant finishing in first place, winning the Femina Miss India Universe title, and was subsequently sent to the Miss Universe 2002 pageant in Puerto Rico. She was placed in the top 10. Dhupia made her film debut in the 2003 Bollywood film Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003), and She rose to fame with her role in the film Julie and then appeared in Sheesha (2005) in a dual role of twin sisters, then starred in films such as Kyaa Kool Hai Hum (2005) and Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), which did well at the box office, and also featured in a segment of the anthology film Dus Kahaniyaan (2007). In the following years, Dhupia appeared in supporting roles in multiple critically and commercially acclaimed films including Chup Chup Ke (2006), Ek Chalis Ki Last Local (2007), Mithya (2008), Maharathi (2008), Singh Is King (2008) and Dasvidaniya (2008). In 2011, she plays Eva Braun in the film Dear Friend Hitler -a film about Mahatma Gandhi. Incidentally she is also a model.

Riya Sen
Riya Sen (photo taken from hotindianactressphotos.com)

Riya Sen
Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen. She began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style. Some of her other films include producer Pritish Nandy’s musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2003) in Hinglish, Shaadi No. 1 (2005) Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005).

Riya was first recognised as a model when she performed in Falguni Pathak’s music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi. Since then, she has appeared in music videos, television commercials, fashion shows, and on magazine covers. She has been a heartthrob sensation throughout India and is known for her gorgeous smile. Her most recent films are Paying Guest, Action Replayy and De Dana Dan. She has also worked on her first international project with Chris Kattan in IFC’s Bollywood Hero.

Rakshanda Khan
Rakshanda Khan

Rakshanda Khan is a former Model and a Television Actress, and an Anchor in the Indian Television Industry. She is better known for her role as Mallika Seth in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, Tanya Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, and Roshni Chopra in Kasamh Se. She is the Divas show emcee.

By – Mondale Smith

Jamzone Regional Night Review

Mavado aka Gully Gad performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2011
Mavado aka Gully Gad performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2011

We at Guyanalive.com think it is only in this beautiful country of ours that an entertainment company can plan a show and have as much hype before the show, like what happened with dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel and the Hits and Jams family. The details are still sketchy as to why the Jamaican artiste did not show (despite being paid a hefty advance), but the show went on with the other item on the list, Mavado. Let us first say that the turnout was quite large, even though most persons complained about the absence of “Di Teacha”. And Mavado held his own with sheer skill, not that we expected any less.

Natural Black performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2011
Natural Black performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2011

The first entertaining item was local star Jory. Those of you who have been to shows that featured Jory know that when we say he was hard, you know we’re telling the truth. He commanded the crowd with his lyrics and made them sway from to side to side, bobbing their heads in jubilation and showing abundant “gun fingers”. That was followed by Guyana – born superstar, Natural Black. He was naturally a performer, with tracks that touch our hearts and our minds. Even though the aroma of marijuana was rampant, the high we experienced was encouraged by fantastic music. We at Guyanalive.com recommend that H&J feature this phenomenon in all their dancehall and reggae acts.

Then, like a pleasant surprise at Christmas time, Mavado entered the stage! Even though there were pauses by the sound system, the National Stadium at Providence wasted absolutely no time grooving to the “Gully God’s Stulla Rhythms”. Hit after hit, like a Mike Tyson fight, Movado delivered to all in attendance. Males and females sang each song (lyric for lyric) while jumping and throwing their hands in their air. The young and the old (well, not too old) never missed a beat while gyrating to the sounds that now helps to define dancehall music.

Jory performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2011
Jory performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2011

Now that we have expressed our joy from being at the Jamzone Regional Night we want to firstly say that it was very devastating to know that the “Gaza King” was not there. Even though we think there would have been some tension between supporters if he was there, we still missed him. We know for a fact that it was out of the promoters’ hands to change the outcome of the show so we will not go further. We enjoyed the atmosphere of the show; ghetto, lively and exciting. On the Guyanalive.com scale we give it a 6 1/2 out of a possible 10, only because Vybz Kartel was absent. Sorry Hits and Jams, better luck next time.

See pictures from this event at –> GuyanaLive.com Gallery

By – Patrice Wishart

Jamzone International Night: Trey Songz, Eve, Timeka Marshall and Gialiani to perform

Jamzone International Night
Jamzone International Night Flier

We’re exactly one week away from the commencement of Guyana’s greatest festival and the atmosphere is pulsating with ‘Jamzone’ fever. Tickets are practically flying off the shelves, stores are restocking their clothing section exclusively with ‘summer’ apparel and patrons abroad are eagerly awaiting their flights to head our way. Among the most talked about events on the roster is the much anticipated and star studded ‘Jamzone International Night’ Super Concert which will feature R&B Superstar Trey Songz and a special guest performance by renowned Hip Hop megastar Eve, as well as supporting acts Timeka Marshall and Don Gialiani.

The general feedback from the local audience has been great since the addition of both artistes consciously targets two separate factions of fans of varying personal interest with one common interest, which is a love for great music.
The organizers have already begun venue preparations to ensure the stage is set to the required International standards and making any adjustments to accommodate varying weather conditions. With partnership from various corporate entities, the Jamzone team is working earnestly to ensure that this year goes down in history as one of the most memorable.

General tickets for this concert and all other Jamzone Summer Break 2011 events with the exception of the Miss Jamzone International Pageant are available at Ashmins Trading while the VIP and Luxury VIP (LVIP) can be obtained from Glamour Designer Brands in the Gizmos and Gadgets Superstore, 13 North Road and Wellington streets. Tickets for the Miss Jamzone International 2011 pageant which will feature eleven delegates from around the Caribbean are currently on sale at the National Cultural Center.

For further information kindly contact our office at 227-0580 or you can simply check out our website at Jamzonesummerbreak.com.

Eve added to Jamzone International Night 2011 Lineup

Eve Jihan Jeffers

Renowned rapper Eve will be performing at the Jamzone International Night Super Concert along with confirmed R&B Megastar, Trey Songz on Saturday August 13th, at the Guyana National Stadium! The news, which was disclosed on Monday by the Hits and Jams team, has been receiving great reviews from fans both locally and internationally who are even more excited to witness the once in a lifetime event.

Eve Jihan Jeffers 33, is an American recording artist and actress. Her first three albums have sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. She has also achieved success in fashion as she started a clothing line titled “Fetish.” She ranked number 46 on VH1’s “50 Greatest Women of the Video Era” show list. As an actress, she is best known for her roles as Terri Jones in the films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business and as Shelley Williams on the UPN television sitcom ‘Eve’. This year, Jamzone Summer Break will feature ten days of incredible activities suitable for people of every age and varying personal interests.

By – Hits and Jams Entertainment

Jamzone Regional Night: Vybz Kartel/Mavado Concert

Vybz Kartel/Mavado Concert not a lyrical battle but a celebration of great Dancehall Music!

Mavado at Jamzone Regional Night 2010
Mavado at Jamzone Regional Night 2010

By now its general news that Vybz Kartel and Mavado will be headlining the Jamzone Summer Break ‘Regional Night’ concert which will be held at the Guyana National Stadium on August 19th; however amidst the excitement, the organizers as well as the artistes are reminding fans that this will not be a musical clash but simply a night of great Dancehall music and entertainment!

Ever since the news of this musical coalition became public, fans have been anxiously anticipating this showdown which is expected to be one of the most attended shows in Guyana’s history. However, in light of the pervading remnants of the lyrical feud in which these two artistes were engaged, the organizers are quite aware of the fact that fans may misconstrue the aim of this event. As mentioned earlier, this will not be a clash or war but both artistes have overcome their differences and merely intend to entertain their Guyanese fans.

The Hits and Jams team is adamant in conveying this message to the public, to maintain our reputation of hosting fun, clean, incident and violence-free events. This show was not created with aims of fueling any animosity between extremist fans and we hope that supporters nationwide are not attending with ulterior intentions.

Vybz Kartel (Picture taken from urbanislandz.com)

This will be the first time both artistes will be performing on the stage together since the West Kingston Jamboree ‘Peace Concert’ in 2009. This show is creating quite a buzz not only locally but all around the Caribbean and has the attention of worldwide dancehall fans, some of whom, are already booking flights to Guyana for this epic event!

Both Vybz Kartel and Mavado each immensely talented in the Dancehall genre, have made amazing strides in the music industry by consistently producing quality music and establishing themselves as two of the most sought after Caribbean acts.

This concert will feature as part of the Jamzone Summer Break Weekend, an annual calendar event in Guyana. This year Jamzone comprises of ten days of fun-packed activities inclusive of jazz and food festivals, kids zone, sports tournaments and several Super Concerts featuring some of the biggest local, Caribbean and International acts.

By – Hits and Jams Entertainment

CARICOM DAY 2011: Kes and The Band thrill Guyanese fans

Kes

Despite the slush mud that saw many fans partying from the safety of the seawalls, Guyanese sure love them some Kes and teh Band. On Caricom evening into the next early morning hours thousands graced the Pegasus parking lot for some ‘wotles soca theraphy’ and they sure got their fill. From gong to gong the entertainment event promoted by AnSa McAl’s Carib Beer proved a multicultural delight with local acts such as Shelly G (one time soca Monarch) and Mahendra RamKellawan (reigning Road March King) and his dancers.

Shelly G was her ever raunchy self dishing songs such as ‘Touch Me here’ while Ramkellawan was a spicy hot showcase of chutney Guyanese style. Hut he obviously forced the sounds of his many popular chutney songs as was evident from the sometimes cracky sound of his voice declaring that even when he going to church ‘dem ah watche me’. But that was just the calm before the storm as Adesh Samaroo (TT chutney monarch 2004) proved his dominance as a professional chutney singer with quite a few samples of his hits such as ‘cyaan go fuh cane’, and ‘Rajin’ etc as well as ‘scorpian sting meh’. Then came time for the night’s feature act: Kes and the band! Many lost their inhebitions when the contagious sound of ‘Ah wotless’ signalled the ushering in of a dread locked soca sensation- Kes.

First came his dancers doing their thing. Then came Kes came on and expressed gratitude to Banks and was glad that he was performing in Guyana yet again in less than a year. The dude with dread locks who incidently is a sticker for education belted out hit after hit from his catalogue as well as several covers from the more popular artistes with his dancers providing energetic routines with each beat. But that was just teh beginning as teh Crow in VIP and General audience couldent care less that mud was under their feet or that teh plyboard set up could give way… thank goodness it didn’t. but Kes and his band proved that they are more than just soca singers as they moved from ‘Wine to the side’ to singing covers from Sean Paul and other Jamaican artistes. Another highlight of the evening was the conclusion of the ‘Carib Domination’ promotion. Five Carib patrons won fabulous prizes such as an ipod, a Flat plazma screen television,a motor scooter and the main prize of a new Toyota Allion.

Robert Calendar of Thomas Street, Kitty who bought his carib from Swet point was luckiest of teh lot while Meenamattie Ramlall won herself a motor scooter, Bridgelall Monilall won a laptop computer, Dorwin Holder won the LCD flatscreen television and Karen Rampersaud won herself an Apple iPod.Back to the Concert: Kes created a mad frenzy when he dished out covers from Ravi B, SuperCat whom he said was way before Sean paul, Machel Montano, and many other artistes.several ladies got a chance to show what Guyanese women are made of too and of course Kes used the song ‘tall thing short thing, I wining up on all thing, fat thing slim thing i wining up on everything…” But while the slim ones were most entertaining Kes sure got his Guyanese wine from a Buxsome Guyanese woman weighting more than 250lbs whom he hoisted unto his hips and she sure was an agile fan. But even before that, Kes aside from telling his fans that he wants to develop a relationship with his Guyanese fans, showed his love for GT people. After several calls from one female fan the superstar in the making jumped off the stage and to the barriers he went. There he got some reall Guyanese love as omen grabbed and pawed at his physique from every angle while others simply went crazy with screams of wild abandon from touching his dread locks.

The show was high energy from start to finish and wen he was done he had shed all the layers of his upper clothing. But it’s not over for Guyanese fans as the artiste is ready and willing to return to the local shores yet again once he is booked to perform. At the show’s conclusion there was hardly anyone with dry clothing exiting the venue and while most must have had quite a job of cleaning mud from their footwear they sure had a blast from Kes and teh Band compliments of Carib-the Beer of the Caribbean. Also in attendance were teh delegates of the Miss Guyana Universe who obviously had a blast.

By Mondale Smith, Production Manager BTV

 

Mavado and Vybz Kartel: One Stage, One Night! -Jamzone 2011

History in the making! Jamzone Regional Night presents- Mavado and Vybz Kartel one Stage! One night!

Mavado performing at Jamzone Regional Night 2010

Just when millions of fans around the world thought it would never happen again, after tireless months of negotiations between Conscious Minds, Hits & Jams, Vybz Kartel & Mavado, the Hits and Jams Team has achieved what no other country could by confirming Jamaican Dancehall Superstars, Vybz Kartel and Mavado to perform on the same stage for the Jamzone Summer Break 2011 ‘Regional Night’!

When the Hits and Jams Team announced that they would be pursuing greater endeavors for this year’s Jamzone Summer Break events, no one would have predicted that they would eventually attain what seemed an almost impossible feat. We can safely say that the Jamzone Regional Night is covered with these two headlining acts who will be accompanied by Guyanese Dancehall Star, Jory. This event will mark the second time in history the two have ever performed together, prior to their 2009 ‘peace concert’ performance at the West Kingston Jamboree stage show in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston.

Vybz Kartel (Picture taken from urbanislandz.com)

The team released the news last Friday July 1 at 11:50pm via the social networking tycoons Facebook and Twitter immediately after the deal was sealed. Swarms of comments crowded the page within minutes from fans who expressed absolute excitement while some were in utter disbelief. By the following day the news had spread like wild-fire via BBM, text messages, social networking and even plain old gossip! Anyone with an ear or a cell phone knew that Vybz Kartel and Movado were heading to Guyana for Jamzone. The thousands of Vybz Kartel and Mavado fans in Guyana will witness this historic ‘Dancehall experience’ as the duo plans to put on a show unlike any other. The artistes are gearing up to dish out some epic performances which will be no feat since they are both known for their dynamic music and power-packed stage performances! Guyanese artiste Jory will also be there to set the vibes for the night!

Hits and Jams Entertainment has undoubtedly revolutionized the levels of entertainment offered in Guyana by epitomizing the concepts of quality from International events and embarking on consistent ventures through creative promotional techniques. In its 11th year Jamzone Summer Break intends to raise the bar to unsurpassable levels by offering an extended array of activities inclusive of incredible Super concerts featuring some of the biggest names worldwide.

 

Fastball premier this Saturday along with Dancehall stars Konshens and Jory!

Konshens
Konshens

On Saturday July 2 the Mining Town, Linden will get the first taste of the newly introduced Fastball game as the tournament kicks off at Mackenzie Sports Ground. The action starts at 15:00hrs with several thrilling matches during which fans who wear the Fastball official T-Shirt will be eligible to win over one million dollars and many other great prizes!

 

When the Fastball excitement ends the party begins with mind-blowing performances by chart-topping Jamaican Dancehall singer Konshens and Guyanese megastar Jory. Earlier this year, Cricket enthusiasts were treated to a successful 10/10 tournament however, this time around, GTT is offering Football lovers a chance to be a part of this new, fun exciting game which will definitely change the way we play local football! Each match lasts a period of 30 minutes and several other changes have been altered to the original format to create Fastball.

 

Tickets are available for $500 at all GTT Offices and the Major Sports Center in the Leap Building. Patrons can also grab their official ‘Fastball’ T-shirts for $1000 for a chance to win fantastic prizes!