Grenada's Tall Pree entertaining the crowd.

Starting with Daddy Chest of Dominica, the former Soca and Calypso Monarch warmed up the crowd with his Dominican hit songs including “Welcome to the Fete,” “Ready or Not” and his 2009 Road March song “Forward We Go”.

The first time performer in the Virgin Islands, made way for Barbados’ Biggy Irie, who heated up the crowd with his “Me nah going home” and his dedication to the big girls.

By this time, the crowd had grown in size as St. Lucian Ricky T was ready to take the stage and threw in a taste of his “larva music”, belting out hot soca songs such as “Pressure Boom” and “Reel and Come Again”.

But it was when Denise “Sassy Baby” Belfon made her entrance that the front of the stage was swarmed but mainly by women. The Trinidadian Soca queen got the women in action with her bicycle and tricycle dances. As usual, the women followed obediently as the entire crowd was also entertained by Belfon’s regular bouts of adult jokes.

It was then time for Jamsey P who lashed out “Ants in the Sugar Pan” and other famous tunes but only added enough steam for the heat of Grenada’s Tall Pree to follow who put out his usual high energy performance and dance instructions.

The cultureville was now hot enough and ready for the Vincentian energy god to take stage. Fireman is well known for his intense energetic performances and his ability to get the crowd to do anything. He lashed out songs such as “Mad” and “Blood of Soca” and instructed the crowd during other rhythms to lie on the ground and kick like a donkey, which many obediently did.

Fireman leads audience to sit on grass

The energy soca session ended and made way for the reggae segment of the show with local acts Shine I and Heritage setting the pace for the famed Yellow Man.

Yellow Man was welcomed by the large crowd who sang along to his many popular tunes including “Nobody move, nobody gets hurt”, “Carolina”, “Come back Darling” and other top tunes to bring down the curtain on the reggae show to make way for the East End J’Ouvert after 4 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Yellowman.

The parade was expected to have a later start since j’ouvert didn’t start until Yellowman was finished sometime after 4am.