Digest: Amazing April

(Nurse) Karen (Digest): Amazing April!

Happy Easter! Wishing you and yours all the blessings of this exciting time of year, pluse all the great food that goes along with it!

Random Newness: This month Florida’s DJ Crown Prince makes his debut as a Soca Artist. His first song “The Anthem” featuring Skinny Fabulous was recorded on “The Nurse Karen Riddim”, produced by Afterdark. Get it Free & all your fave hits from Trini Carnival on Supa Soca Vol 12: http://mustardseedmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/free-download-crown-prince-supa-soca.html


Journalism: Nurse Karen is psyched about finally meeting a few industry peeps she’s been watching for a while now. This month, she’ll be interviewing Montreal electro DJ Ghislain Poirier whose revolutionary mixes are bringing soca music to the mainstream dance scene. She’s also looking forward to sitting down with Grenada’s Brother B about his plans for Spice Mas 2009. If you follow her on twitter, you’ll be notified as soon as the articles are posted! http://twitter.com/nursekaren

Travel: As we mentioned last month, Karen’s taking care of business at home for a little while. However, she’s coordinating arrangements to cover Atlanta Carnival in May. If you’re looking for an affordable cultural getaway, why not come along? http://www.atlantacarnival.net

Poetry: Good news and bad news. Good news first! Karen will be performing a spoken word set at the album launch of “Pleasure in Pain by Devon “The Split” Jones, on April 27th in Toronto. Wanna reach?

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?sid=d3badc5a64b1972cb50446f6d0e91597&eid=68915791729&ref=search

Bad news... After performing poetry locally and internationally for half of her life, Karen finally applied for a government grant to record her own spoken word album, featuring original music by some of the Caribbean’s top soca producers. Sad to say, she didn’t get the money! There will be an album though. Stay tuned! Learn more about Karen’s work as a writer in this clip from her interview on Island Style TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrZW0nsB2UQ

Community: Thanks to Corey Graham 2.0 in Barbados, there’s an easier way to tell MySpace why you think they need a soca category. All you have to do is visit the link below, fill out the form and click send. Do it now! http://www.coreykgraham.com/socanow

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Booster Shot: Fay Ann finally collects her prize money

Literally just in....Fay-Ann Lyons' dispute with the CPF came to an end today. The new mom is $1 million richer, after a long fought battle to collect her prize money from the International Soca Monarch and Groovy Soca Monarch competition held on February 20, 2009.

I'm still working on collecting the details,so sit tight. I will add to this post as more information becomes available.

In the meantime, check out earlier posts on the Soca Monarch Money Saga:

March 14, 2009 - Fay-Ann's Soca Monarch Money Slashed

March 16, 2009 - False Alarm, CPF to pay Fay-Ann all that she's owed
March 23, 2009 - No Money For Fay-Ann, The Bacchanal Continues

March 29, 2009 - Big Baby Announcement

Love and Soca,

(Nurse) Karen
www.twitter.com/nursekaren

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Booster Shot: Porn charges send a Boom Champion to court

Perhaps you've heard the rumours, a Trini new presener found himself in hot water over the weekend for allegedly distributing naked photos of a once popular female soca artiste on facebook.

The man at the heart of the scandal is one David "Davy" Murray of Laventille. He reads the news on Boom Champions 94.1 FM. Yesterday morning, he appeared before a magistrate in Port of Spain on charges of distributing pornographic material. The incident allegedly took place between March 30th and April 3, 2009.

His sense of decency has got him in trouble before, just not with the law. In October 2008, he and fellow news man Kevin Baker caught the attention of Prime Minister Patrick Manning for making improper comments in a news broadcast. The PM lodged an official complaint with the station, leading to a two-week suspension for both Murray and Baker.

Davy Murray heads back to court on May 19th. Until then, he's out on bail.

I know you're curious to know who the precious victim is. Well, if you've heard the rumours, you don't need me to tell you. I will tell you this though, it's not my business to publicize hearsay...so happy googling!

You feel I ain't see how allyuh nasty? Log-off Facebook! No clues dey neida.


Love and Soca,

(Nurse) Karen

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On De Scene: Updates on Upcoming St.Lucia Carnival Season

April has begun and the race to 2kwine is on in St.Lucia as most bands are set to launch within the next four weeks ahead of the official opening of Carnival. As to which band offers the best package that is something I will leave for you to judge, here I will give the links to the bands who are already LIVE. There you can view pictures and videos from their prior years and see what band suits you!

So here you go :

http://www.just4funcarnival.com/
http://www.redinternational.net/
http://www.fantasycarnival.com/
(When the other bands websites launch I will ensure you get all de links)

Over the weekend Nurse Karen paid respect to Shane Larcher for giving his web audience a direct link to this blog. So I will in return tell you a little about his website and what he hopes to accomplish with it.

Years ago, searching for news on St.Lucia carnival would be an almost impossible task which ultimately affected our Mas significantly. Shane Larcher decided to launch his website http://www.slucarnival.com/ to give persons a direct link to what happening in St.Lucia for carnival : from de limes , de fetes , de events , de MUSIC and of course de Mas. This website has combined forces with most Band owners and promoters to give everyone near and far a clear idea of SLU Carnival 2009.

As de season heats up, be sure to keep in the know about what music making a real bachannal in St.Lucia with Nurse Karen.

P.S. Seem like everyone on Twitter now, so if you want to follow me add me at www.twitter.com/rochellenoel or if ya wanna chat more on St.Lucia Carnival and Music add me rochelle.noel@hotmail.com

Till next time guys
Peace
Rochelle

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Free Download: G13's Mad Decent Power Soca Mix

Got another special mega mix for all the soca heads.

This one comes to you courtesy of G13 Sound Internation out of New York.  I've secretly been fans of these guys for a while without knowing.  They love soca music from everywhere...  And I don't care if most DJs say it, they're lying. G13 actually does. Most DJs need to hear someone else run a "small island" tune five times before they feel safe playing it too. 

When I say, I didn't know I was a fan, I mean this:  I get a lot of music in my inbox DAILY.  Sometimes it's accompanied by personal messages, or bios...other times - nada.  I love music, so once I receive something with the words "soca" + "mix" eventually I'm gonna download and test it out on the treadmill.

Thanks to G13, my legs were in fine wining condition all winter long.

Here's the latest one, a Trinidad Carnival wrap up that highilights Double L and LP very international personal musical tastes.  Care to sample?

Download it HERE 

TRACKLIST

1. bunji garlin- clear d’ road (TnT)
2. fayann lyons- meet super blue (TnT)
3. machel montano hd- won’t stop (TnT)
4. patrice roberts f/ machel montano hd- simply everything (TnT)
5. patrice roberts- sway in d’ mas (TnT)
6. machel montano hd- ravin’ (TnT)
7. machel montano hd- wild antz (precision road mix) (TnT)
8. taxik f/ claudette peters- bring it on (ANU)
9. destra garcia- bacchanal (TnT)
10. skinny fabulous- head bad (SVG)
11. nnika francis f/ fayann lyons- gettin’ on wild (GND/TnT)
12. roy cape all stars f/ blaxx- tusty (TnT)
13. ricky t- wheel and come again (SLU)
14. shurwayne winchester & y.o.u.- you (energy) (TnT)
15. kes the band- we own (TnT)
16. krosfyah f/ edwin yearwood- we on d’ way (handle yuh bizness) (BIM)
17. roy cape all stars f/ olatunji yearwood- wajang (TnT)
18. d’landlord- find me dey (dijital road mix) (SVG)
19. triple kay band- colours (Dominica)
20. kmc- i will (TnT)
21. nu vybes band- everybody lose it (SKN)
22. ricky t- ole (up in d’ air) (SLU)
23. skinny fabulous- get on bad (SVG)
24. machel montano hd f/ pitbull & lil jon- floor on fire (TnT/USA)

Like what you see?  

Check them out for yourself at http://homeforcarnival.blogspot.com

Love and Soca

(Nurse) Karen

www.twitter.com/nursekaren

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