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    Artistes line up for CTO’s inaugural Caribbean Cultural Showcase – Caribbean Life

    R innissBy R innissJune 4, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    The ‘Bouyon Boss’ Asa Bantan, left, and soca sensation Motto might be in New York for Caribbean Week.

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    The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) says high Caribbean artistes are gearing as much as deliver the rhythm of the Caribbean to Instances Sq. this week when the CTO hosts its first Caribbean Cultural Showcase.

    CTO stated on Friday, Might 30, that Dominica’s headliners embrace Asa Bantan, the dynamic Bouyon music ambassador; Marie-Claire Giraud, the internationally acclaimed jazz and opera singer; and the US-based Know Your Culture Dance group.

    Two high St. Lucian artistes — Motto, the high-energy soca sensation, and regional soca powerhouse Teddyson John — are additionally featured.

    CTO stated extra performers embrace Kenyo Baly, the soulful singer from Saint-Martin, and Wukkout!, the high-energy New York–primarily based soca dance health expertise.

    A signature addition to Caribbean Week in New York (CWNY) 2025, the Cultural Showcase takes place on Thursday, June 5, from 4 p.m. to eight p.m. at The Westin New York at Instances Sq..

    “This immersive celebration will function stay performances, culinary delights, vibrant creative shows, unique journey gives, and alternatives to win journeys to Caribbean locations,” CTO stated.

    It stated the Legendary Supreme Crew will set the musical tone for the night, with confirmed highlights together with Grenada’s conventional Jab Jab and ShortKnee performers and a Jamaican vogue present.

    CTO stated collaborating locations embrace Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Saint-Martin, with Sandals Resorts Worldwide additionally set to take part.

    This 12 months’s Showcase additionally marks the twentieth anniversary of TEMPO Networks, the groundbreaking Caribbean media model launched throughout Caribbean Week in 2005.

    “TEMPO’s continued presence underscores the highly effective connection between Caribbean tradition, media, and tourism,” the CTO stated.

    Frederick A. Morton, Jr., founder and CEO of TEMPO Networks, stated: “As TEMPO Networks celebrates 20 extraordinary years of elevating Caribbean tradition, music, and life-style to the world, I am each humbled and deeply grateful for the journey.”

    He stated partnering as soon as once more with CTO for Caribbean Week is particularly significant, “because it brings us full circle — again to the place all of it started with our unforgettable launch live performance on the South Road Seaport in 2005.

    “This milestone will not be solely a testomony to the energy and fantastic thing about Caribbean individuals and tradition but in addition to the facility of unity, imaginative and prescient, and persistence,” Morton, Jr. stated. “The perfect is but to return.”

    Dona Regis-Prosper, CTO’s secretary-general and CEO, stated: “We’re happy to accomplice with TEMPO on our Caribbean Cultural Showcase.

    “This occasion is a joyful reminder of our area’s vibrancy and resilience – celebrating who we’re by music, meals, artwork, and shared group,” she added.

    Held underneath the theme “Caribbean Resilience: Crafting Tomorrow’s Tourism,” the CTO stated CWNY 2025 options “a dynamic schedule of occasions,” together with a Media Market, Caribbean Media Awards, and academic classes on sustainable tourism improvement.

    A spotlight of the week might be a particular Orange Economic system dialogue that includes Morton, Jr.; Asa Bantan; Motto; Louis Lewis, CEO of the St. Lucia Tourism Authority; and different regional thought leaders.

    The session will be moderated by media maven Vanessa James of VJMedia.



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