Fifteen Guyanese artists are gearing up to take the stage on Friday night at the return of Frass Fridays Annual Summer Jam. The much-anticipated event, which promotes Guyanese music, is slated for the Hotel Tower poolside.
Guyanese artists such as Change, Fame A, Chanz Don, Danger and Loui Banks along with several others will grace the stage. They promise to deliver a concert like no other. The event will also see the appearance of two Jamaican artists Stereo Don and Rytikal.
Promoter Jahmai Charles said they will give artists the much-needed platform to showcase their talents. He believes with the event, they will be able to bridge the gap where local artists do not have the platform to exhibit their musical talents.
The event is being produced by Triniti Promotions Sports and Entertainment and it is their first major event since the restrictions of COVID-19 have been lifted.
Before COVID-19, the artists met every Friday and rehearsed. Those considered to be among the top performers were allowed to go live on Facebook, while the best of the best made up the Frass Friday Squad. Singers on the squad had a sing-off on the last Friday of every month.
Frass Friday was founded in November 2018 as an avenue to promote young Guyanese artists. The platform is open to all Guyanese artists performing in any genre to rehearse along with their peers.
Those who are considered ready to make their music are allowed to join the Frass Squad. On the last Friday of every month, a selected set of members from the squad go head to head in the Frass Squad Competition.
“This is a live entertainment platform. You come with your tracks or rhythm and you put in your rhythm and play, and you sing on it. We can also provide those rhythms. We have original rhythms built by Guyanese producers,” HipHop artiste Kevin ‘Da Prodigy ’Scott shared previously.
“All Frass Friday meetings are streamed live on Facebook and all songs that go through live are originals. But if somebody comes and they want to do a cover we give them that opportunity to see what they can do but that doesn’t go live. When we go live, we have people from China, Ghana and other African countries… from the Caribbean, North and South America that are commenting.”
In a previous article it was reported that on average, 70 artists showed up every Friday evening to work on their music. They are all part of what is called Frass Friday Camp. Together they work with mentors in the music business and each other on their vocals, their vocabulary, how to deliver their music, write their music and whatever else is needed to prepare them for the recording of their music.
The Frass team said that doing this is important as they want the persons who are part of Frass Friday to be the best they possibly can be. If they were to not follow the rules they would have laid out and gone ahead and record artists because they were only concerned with making money, persons who record before they are ready can easily fail. And according to one mentor, failure at an early stage in someone’s music career can cause them to crumble and quit on making their dreams a reality.
