Festival Overview

(Your MilesAhead.tv Jamaica crusade blogger wasn’t able to get back on to the Internet last night (Saturday). But here are some notes she made during the phenomenal evening at Dump Up Beach. Wish you were there!)

Music in Montego Bay

Saturday, May 3, 2008, Jamaica Crusade, 9:38 p.m. (Jamaica time)-–Jamaicans talk fast. Their musical accent and patois sometimes stretches my ability to understand. Okay, not sometimes; all the time. So when you put that way of communicating with reggae and rap, well, I confess I’m lost. But I had a great time listening to the music anyway! The performers were passionate and professonal, and the crowd loved them all.

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Live from Montego Bay! Saturday, May 3, 2008, Jamaica Crusade, 6:58 p.m. (Jamaica time)– I am at Dump Up Beach, sitting in the Miles Ahead video land. (That’s what Josh, one of the tech guys, call it. It’s the command center for the production of the second night of the Jamaica Crusade, and it’s hopping! These guys are all truly talented and dedicated professionals and it has been fun to work alongside them.)

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Friday, May 2, 2008, 9:24 p.m. Jamaica time (Montego Bay,Jamaica) – Israel Houghton is playing, and everyone is dancing.

Everyone including the massive crowd packed into Dump Up Beach and stacked along the road outside the park; everyone including the stage crew, the security guards, and the waiters in the VIP tent — and even some of the VIPs. One song ends, and on its own the crowd starts to chant, “Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord,” “Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord,” “Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord” …

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