‘Let ONE love prevail’ – Tarrus Riley
The night got started with the local artists and bands setting the pace, most of them from the GRATE Music Alliance – B’More, Ritseeniya Georges, Drastic and Mackabee and the Alliance Band who indeed showcased a growing movement that is delivering a higher level of live entertainment every time they hit the stage.
Local Calypso Queen Sistah Joyce held the crowd, not doing any calypso but some of her local reggae songs that truly primed up the crowd for what they had coming next, the reggae soulful entertainer Tarrus Riley.
With the crowd 90% to the stage front by the time Sistah Joyce was injected them with her ‘love portion’ space was not enough to the stage front to contain the crowd that wanted to be at that level for night’s feature artist who told the crowd that they had a special night of entertainment as it was not just another show but ‘Tarrus Riley in concert’.
That for him meant a great level of interaction with his fans as he had them singing along at several stages of his time on stage. Before closing his stage performance and during a brief interview with Virgin Islands News Online after he resounded the call to, “Let One Love prevail”.
He was at the time referencing the massive protest across the United States against the police killings of blacks, a topical issue that has been making the headlines for weeks now across the world. “Just before I come I was watching on TV what’s going on, You watch it? You watch it? And they were standing and protesting against police brutality. We don’t want fight against police and we don’t want the police fight against we. Say One Love, So listen to the music and feel the vibration…” he told the crowd.
He said that the vibes felt from the crowd for his show last night were, "Very nice, very nice, the Virgin Islands always gives me a lot of love. USVI, BVI is always good vibes."
Asked for his opinion as it relates to the issues of police unjust killings of black in the USA he said, “I will speak against it because it’s one love, equality and justice,” Tarrus Riley told this news site.
The night was prematurely ended as a heavy downpour of rain came and caused most persons to leave immediately after Riley’s performance despite there were others that were to still hit the stage to take the concert later into the morning. Among those were VIBE. That was at approximately 2:30 AM when most persons left.
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