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Happy New Year!! Some of us spent the season in the bay and some of us headed to Barbados. January was a month of planning for us as we have many ideas for the jouvay.com party spirit in 2003, both in the bay and around the world. Our first party of the year will be on February 22nd with DJs King Solomon and Engineroom. It's the birthday celebration for one of our crew, Maya....you already know it's going to be a blast. Jouvay.com has organized a bay area book tour for Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, author of Gunshots in My Cook Up: Bits and Bites of a Hip-Hop Caribbean Experience. Selwyn was the Editor in Chief of the Source magazine, the creative director of 360hiphop.com and started Schematics, a media consulting company that produces the Brand Jordan magazine. In the bay from Feb 19th-Feb23rd, he'll read at Stanford, at Cocosoul's Collective in San Francisco, The Jahva House in Berkeley and on KPFA's Hard Knock Radio. Check our events page for the listing. King Solomon also teams up with other local reggae DJs to bring reggae to the East bay every Monday night starting Feb 24th (see flyer on our events page).
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The San Francisco carnaval celebrates 25 years this May.We are a part of the carnaval advisory committee and after much much voting, the carnaval theme was selected: "A Mass Affirmation of Peace". Jouvay.com plans to partake for the second consecutive year with their theme reJOUVAYnation....more on that later. Though this festival attracts quite a number of Caribbean contingents, it remains heavily Latino and Brazilian influenced. We are working pretty hard to produce a Caribbean event as big as the festival's Salsamba ball. It will be a highly publicized event and we are looking for sponsors right now. Please contact us if you'd like to help. We are also on the King and Queen Contest committee and have volunteered to solicit gift donations for the contestants so that it's not just the two winners who'll walk away with something. It's also a great way for a sponsor to get some advertisment so please contact us if you are interested. Some of us will be in Trinidad for carnival (March 3rd and 4th). You can hear most of the concerts live on homeviewtnt.com. Don't be left behind next time: Barbados Cropover August 1st weekend. |
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| WHAT's NEW on JOUVAY.COM Read interviews with Barbados' biggest singers and producers. Listen to Shout outs from T.O.K, Alison Hinds, Rikki Jai, Rupee and more. All on the Jouvay.com Interview page.
Added to the photogallery, pictures from Socaribbean International's opening party at Caribbean Gardens in Burlingame with Russel Cadogan and Pan Ecstasy on 1/25/03 and pictures taken from Miami and Barbados over Christmas at a number of events.
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| Things to support Jouvay.com set up a website to spread the word of women in Guyana who are a part of WAVE (Women Against Violence Everywhere). Guyana, with a population of under 750,000, continues to be terrorized by violence and has a death toll for January of over 30. Each week women wear white and rally in the capital and many soca and reggae artists have been contacted by Jouvay.com and have signed onto ADS being placed in the Guyanese newspapers saying that they support the women who are saying that the violence must stop now. Singers like Rupee and Iwer George, The Mighty Sparrow and Rikki Jai, Machel Montano and Drupatee, Dave Martins of the Tradewinds and Alison Hinds of Square One, Red Rat and Black Stalin, Krosfyah, Double Xplojun, and Terry Gajraj have signed on. Most recently Barbadian saxophone player Arturo Tappin who plays with Luther Vandross at Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 11th and 12th has signed on . We encourage you to support WAVE.
A very big supporter of Jouvay.com in the bay area has a sister in Trinidad who is awaiting a liver transplant. To raise $300,000 US to be placed on the list, many of the soca artists perform at a poolside fund party in Trinidad on Feb 19th. Spread the word to anyone you know down in Trinidad to support. Donationas are also welcome and can be sent to the Scotia Bank on Pembroke and Park streets (Trinidad) under Medical fund for Lyndeen Maynard.
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