Magnum celebrates in style

The 10^th anniversary Magnum Tonic Wine celebrations transformed the Cambridge square in St. James into to an entertainment show ground on Saturday night through the performances of dancehall heavyweights Konshens and Lady Saw.

With no need to pay an admission fee and the longed desire to party with these two champions of dancehalls, the anniversary celebrations created a ripple effect of traffic pile up for at least a mile in the small town of Cambridge as persons wanted to park as close as possible to where the event was being held.

Under the musical tutelage of Stone Love and Copper Shot sound systems residents of Cambridge and surrounding communities took the time to warm-up for the main event through exuberant dance moves, waving and gyrating for over two hours as the awaited the high quality performances from the headliners.

There was no doubt in the minds of dancehall fans that when dancehall sensation Konshens was announced on the microphone by emcee Miss Kitty that he would engage the audience in an entertaining masterpiece which began with his hit with Tarrus Riley Good Girl Gone Bad. Looking quite fashionable in his red necktie to match his baseball cap and his red and white Puma sneakers he made it clear that he was Young Black and Powerful which his fans agreed.  

However, he made it clear in his performance that he does not subscribe to Rasta Imposta but he would be comfortable with a Pretty Devil. With a passion for the ladies he tickled their interest as collaborated with upcoming artiste Dari on the popular hit Do Di Thing which sent the huge contingent of female audience into to frenzy, singing the song word for word. Nevertheless, he made it clear that being at Magnum’s 10^th anniversary celebrations indicated that This Mean Money and that he is always a Winner.

Queen of the dancehall ‘Mumma’ Saw or Lady Saw as she is best known as delivered an excellent package of risqué but entertaining performances. It was evident that her song Beg Yu was not to suggest that she was pleading for crowd to respond to her performance as she could no wrong throughout here 45 minute stint onstage with her collection of past and present hits. With I Got Your Man, Chat To Mi Back and Backshot it was clear that this versatile female dancehall champion wore her crown well.