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Rudder Shines at San Fernando Concert
LEFT: Caryl 'Trini ' Jacobs, Carol Jacobs, Ella Andell and David Rudder
TriniSoca.com Reporters
Event Date: April 14, 2007
Posted: April 22, 2007
Under a starlit sky, the San Fernando Hill was a buzz of activity as the Ascension: David Rudder In Concert took place Saturday night, April 14, 2007. Hundreds of fans took the shuttles up to the scenic hilltop overlooking the glittery lights of the San Fernando city and the chairs set out for the patrons were quickly filled, leaving many people standing.
The concert started off on a mellow note, with a medley of songs by pannist, Darren Shepherd, accompanied on stage by Kenny Phillips and keyboardist Rodney Harris. Their combination delighted the audience with such songs as Stevie Wonder's "Master Blaster" and Patti Austin and James Ingram's "Baby Come to Me".
Rapso group 3 Canal, celebrating ten years in the business, upped the tempo as they sang the popular song "Vampire". The front trio of Stanton Kewley, Wendell Manwarren and Roger Roberts drew patrons from their seats to the front of the stage. After performing "Ben Lion", "Talk Yuh Talk" and "Blue", they closed with "Good Morning Neighbour" to the delight of the audience.
After 3 Canal's energetic performance, the band struck up the opening notes of "Caribbean Man" and the audience shouted their approval as Black Stalin graced the stage. With the audience as his chorus singers, Stalin belted out several of his classic songs such as "We Can Make It If We Try", "Black Man Doh Get Nothing Easy" and "Bun Dem", at times standing aback in mock amazement as the audience sang some of the songs, line after line. At one point, Black Stalin even joked that he better sing the song else he would not get paid. During his performance, Moko Jumbies doing some daring antics, danced in front of the stage. Black Stalin's performance climaxed with his the perennial classic "Black Man Feeling to Party", receiving a thunderous response from the audience.
With his exit, even more patrons started to gather to the front of the stage in anticipation of the coming on stage of David Rudder. When he came on stage, few remained seated as the Rudder fans danced and waved to his string of popular songs. Backed up by the mother and daughter combination of Carol and Trini Jacobs, Rudder had the audience in the palm of his hand as he sang songs such as "Song for a Lonely Soul", "Hammer", "Chant of a Madman", "Calypso Music", "Madness", "Long Time Band", "Dust in Dey Face", "High Mas", "Ganges and the Nile" and "Trini to de Bone". Refusing requests to sing "Rally Round the West Indies", Rudder declined, saying sorry, he could not sing that now, an obvious reference to the exit of the West Indies from the World Cup. He went on to sing a song "Champions" from his new album Cricket Chronicles. While on stage, David Rudder received a Music Icon Award, presented to him by Black Stalin for his contribution to Calypso.
David Rudder's Concert 'Ascension' in pictures:
www.trinisoca.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=69492
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