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Thursday 7 sepTember 2017

Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival Strives for Mini Concerts at Aruba’ Schools

ORANJESTAD - On the road Schools can call
to Caribbean Sea Jazz “We would love to do more
Festival 2017, organizer for schools, but as we are
Purple Entertainment has doing all by ourselves, it
expressed their wishes to turns out to be difficult on
organize mini concerts for the road to. Ideal would
the kids at school. Direc- be if the schools call us
tor Erik Eman explains that when they are interested
while all these international in this initiative. So far we
stars come here for the Jazz received calls from Mon
Festival, why not give the Plaisir School and Schakel
Aruban kids a unique ex- College, but it is pretty si-
perience too? lent outside of that. Eman
explains that Unoca is a
In an interview with Bon foundation that helps out.
Dia Aruba, Eman says they Besides the school concerts
strive for 4 mini concerts at the Caribbean Sea Jazz
various schools. In the past Festival also gives young
they did this already, for ex- people from 16 years and
ample bachata king Prince up the opportunity to buy
Royce gave a perfor- tickets for reduced prices.
mance at San Nicolas. This “In this way we like to mo-
spin off activity of the main tivate youngsters to come
Caribbean Sea Jazz Festi- to our concerts and expe- tember 15 and 16 at the ‘goodbye tour’ as he will the deal was done,” tells
val may not be as known as rience something different. Renaissance Convention retire soon. That means this Eman.
the main festival, but for our There are three stages and Center. The festival exists al- is a unique opportunity to Artists on stage are among
kids it’s very important. The also an art gallery.” ready for eleven years and see him live for one of the others Maceo Parker, Zuco
problem is that there is a each year the program is last times. He wanted to do 103, Cory Henry & The Funk
lack of means to organize International & local artists again surprising. “We have something for his Venezu- Apostles, Shirma Rouse,
it, Eman says. The Caribbean Sea Jazz Rubén Blades on stage and elan fans, close by Venezu- and The Jemiah Rogers
Festival takes place Sep- the concert is part of his ela, so I contacted him and Band. Local artists that per-
form are Robert Jeand’or,
Chris Kross, Esha, Oruba,
Siegfried Hart, Caribbean
Latin Jazz Xpress and sever-
al DJ’s. For local musicians
the festival is a highlight,
proved by the presence
of Chris Kross who stud-
ies in the Netherlands and
comes over especially for
this event. “To us it is impor-
tant to give glory to local
artists, next to the interna-
tional stars. We are for sure
an event that profiles local
musicians to a higher inter-
national level. Special at
the Caribbean Sea Jazz
Festival too is the presence
of three stages. Majority of
festival concerts have 1 or
2 stages, this is also another
dimension to local artists.”
Eman invites everybody to
get into the feel of the festi-
val this Thursday at Casibari
Cafe where various artists
are proof-playing during a
warm up concert.

More information: Face-
book Caribbean Sea Jazz
or https://caribbeanseaja-
zz.com.q