Founder and Producer of Honey Jam (Barbados) Inc, Ebonnie Rowe.
The wheels have already been set in motion and all seems ready to swing for this year’s Honey Jazz Barbados Festival, set to come off later this month.
The organisers of the First Citizens Honey Jazz Barbados Festival have added a few more events to spice up the festival, which will run from January 23 to 29, 2017. The main gala will take place on Saturday, January 28, 2017, at Frank Collymore Hall.
Other events include a movie screening at Limegrove on Monday, January 23, and a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald at the Hilton on Thursday, January 26.
According to the Founder and Producer of Honey Jam (Barbados) Inc, Ebonnie Rowe, the Festival serves as a fundraiser for the Honey Jam developmental initiative, in support of Barbadian artistes. Each year, Honey Jam culminates with an annual concert, featuring amazing performances by local artistes, in all genres of music. The initiative which was started back in Canada in 1995 by Rowe, a Barbadian, has been running for the past six years in Barbados. Honey Jazz now follows this spectacular annual event.
“We are super excited about Honey Jazz in January. It used to be a one night event, but for the first time, we are expanding it. It’s going to be four events,” Rowe recently commented.
Giving more details about Honey Jazz 2017, Rowe noted that the kick-off event will be a movie screening of the Nina Simone film “What Happened Miss Simone?” at Limegrove on Monday January 23. The second event, entitled, “A Tisket, A Tasket”, will serve as a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and this will take place at the Hilton Barbados Hotel, on Thursday, January 26.
There will also be “The Battles of The Sexes”, After work Polo Jazz Party that same week. The main Gala will however take place on Saturday, January 28, 2017, at the Frank Collymore Hall.
Rowe has also noted that if Honey Jam Barbados artiste, Christina “Chrissy D” Dottin, who is currently Digicel’s newest Ambassador, is in Barbados, she will have the opportunity to perform during Honey Jazz.
Rowe has meanwhile noted that she is very excited to see the growth taking place with Honey Jam, as well as Honey Jazz over the years. (RSM)
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