In Honor of A Legend
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Stamina & Aziatic (Producers of Red Hot Albums & Concerts) proudly presents The Fifth Annual "Best of The Best Punta Rock Concert" on Friday November 19th 2004 from 7:30pm - 2am at Prince Hall Memorial Auditorium in Los Angeles. Advance tickets are $20 (with a free copy of Da Bizniz Magazine)
door price is $25.
The Best Of The Best Puntarock Concert enhances the global recognition of the economic potential for Garifuna arts, music, language and culture with great tourism awareness. This Annual Concert was created to increase the understanding and appreciation of Garifuna ancestry by inter-ethnic gatherings, locally and internationally celebrating the arrival and settlements of Garifuna people in Central America and the Caribbean.
The mission of The Best Of The Best Puntarock Concert is to strengthen opportunities for cultural expressions, jobs and business relations that will generate the hope, courage, confidence and greatness for years to come.
The Goal of this Cultural Event is to Educate through entertainment, by sharing our music, language and culture with people from around the world and especially those from the Caribbean and Central American communities from (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, St. Vincent, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Mexico). Punta Rock Music The world has come to know Punta Rock Music as a heritage of the Garifuna Culture, originating primarily in Belize.
The music, perhaps one of the strongest elements of the Garifuna Culture whereby the language and dance has been preserved by generation. While most Punta Rock songs are written in Garifuna some are written in the local language of the artist.
Garifuna is a unique language formed from the blending of Carib Indian and African languages, mixed with some French and Spanish.
Authentic Punta Rock music will also incorporate key instruments such as the Garifuna drums, turtle shells and the "shaka" (or rattle) mixed with the electric guitar and keyboards, creating an explosive and rocking rhythm irresistible to all who hear it. It is easy for one who has never heard such music to fall in love with it. This wave of cultural experience has been known to bring rejunvinate audiences all over the Caribbean, Central America and other parts of the world, serving as a link between the young and older generation.
Garifuna - In existence for only about five centuries, the Garifuna race is indigenous to the Caribbean and Central America. The people originated on the island of St. Vincent and were exiled from their homeland in 1797. They eventually found their way to parts of Central America like Honduras, Belize and Guatemala where the culture remains strong.
The Fifth Annual "Best of The Best Punta Rock Concert"
Meet Da Band
Rhodee, a native of Dangriga, now residing in the mid western United States Rhodee has been and still is an instrumental figure in the education and promotion of Garifuna history and culture. Direct from the pages of The Chicago Tribune, Rhodel "Rhodee" Castillo has influence and intrigued an audience as sophisticated as love. Through his music and divine soul, Rhodee delivers the messages of a lifetime. "In Exile" his first solo effort gained national acclaim for its production and lyrical content but nothing beats the man himself live on stage.
Wageah Kids
The next generation of Punta rocker’s to be recon with. From their ancestors to their mothers and fathers, "Wageah Kids" have all grown up eating, sleeping and breathing the music. With most of there parents still performing today, The Kids have envision a career of their own. For years they have seen the lights far above Prince Hall Memorial Auditorium, for years they have known and witnessed the hype and now, sharing the stage with some of Punta Rock's elite is about to be a reality. Until Punta Rebels came along and then Griga Boys, no other young group has acquired the lime light at such an early age.
Aziatic "The meaning of Excitement" is the last man standing. Celebrating ten years in music with six solo albums and a life that has embraced some of the biggest names in Puntarock music. Aziatic has no doubted survive the test of our time. From the low blows to the rumors of war , the man in the mirror have instead reinvented the ethics of the game and created a venue for greatness to be recorded by employing what would be considered his biggest rivals. As producer and promoter of the Annual Best Of The Best
Puntarock Concert, Aziatic has delegated more of his duties to focus on a two-character performance (The Present and The Past). In the past, what has been done? What has been seen could as well be a thing of the past and Friday November 19th might as well be the thing of the future.
Wasanigu Dance Group
A blend of rhythm and movement, on heels and toes, as the drum beat carries on, leading the transformation of the body to sweat Punta Music.
Wasanigu delivers step by step, the uniqueness of the Garifuna Cultural that has attracted scholars from around the world.
In existence for a little over eight years and the majority of its members barely mid way through their teens, Wasanigu brings energy to their stomping ground. As important as the Garifuna Language and Music has been, the dance accompanied by an adrenalin rush drives a force within you to follow the lead.
Junior Aranda
Da Bizniz Magazine and Prepaid Phone Card in association with Stamina & Aziatic proudly presents The Annual Best Of The Best Puntarock Concert in recognition and honor of the Legendary "Junior Aranda" who for generations have entertained Belizeans and toured the world with his guitar and a happy smile. His tunes recorded and non recorded has influenced many of today's Garifuna Artist, who in some way or the other, knowingly or unknowingly made it through the path set by our honoree.
Junior Aranda, one of the Greatest Pranda singers of Belize, is considered to be among the last of a dying breed. With a few Paranderos continuing the soulfulness of the Paranda Genre, Junior Aranda still has a lot to offer. At an age where most people have already retired, the joy that music brings, has kept this father, grandfather and great-grandfather in our lives at a time where it seems like only music can bring us together.
Paranda Music isTraditional Garifuna Music and throughout Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala, you can still hear the music, called Paranda.
Paranda: "Africa in Central America" is an authentic recording of this most rare and intriguing music. Paranda is both a Garifuna rhythm and a genre of music. This spirited music is completely acoustic, with guitar, wooden Garifuna drums known as Primero, segunda, shakers, scrapers, and turtle shell instruments. The songs are often call-and-response in African tradition, but there is also the Latin and Spanish influence demonstrated in rhythm and guitar styling. The artists, known as Paranderos, are few and far between - with only one or two living in each village.
Sponsors
Stamina & Aziatic - "Producers of Red Hot Albums & Concerts" and Providing Jobs Through Music before 1996 have produced some of the most memorable Puntarock performances in US History. This year Nov 19th "Garifuna Settlement Day" 2004 promises to be as good or even better as this year's line up includes a representative from each generation of Garifuna Culture and music.
Da Bizniz Magazine "Where yur Business is our Bizniz" is a proactive, interactive as well as an entertainment magazine, which focuses on a diverse Belizean Culture at home and abroad while incorporating community businesses as a support readily available to service our growing needs.
Da Bizniz is published on a quarterly basis (June, September, December and March). Sample articles and advertisers are accessible at
www.belizeanartist.com.
Da Biziniz Prepaid Phone Card
hot off the press is offering the best rates at no connection fee and usable from anywhere in the United States. Da Bizniz phone Card by Stamina & Aziatic for a price of $5 US provides 500min in the US and 70 mins to Belize. This five-dollar card also features a range of minutes to other countries throughout the world. (all calls are based on one time use). calls using cell phones and pay phones are charged at different rates.
DJ's for The Evening
D J Francis (FM Hi-Fi) - One of LA's premier sound system FM Hi-Fi is making a special appearance by popular demand.
D J Arfton GTS Entertainment and crew still going hot from their summer bash.
Selecta Thunder Clap from LA's rising sound system Silverlead
Free Parking
There are three parking lot spaces available on the night of the concert. One on the East side of Prince Hall (across the street), one on the south side of Prince Hall and one behind the Auditorium. All parking spaces are available on a first come basis.
Received a free Copy of Da Bizniz Magazine with purchased tix
Tickets On Sale
Blessed Love 323 - 292-5214
Corner of Vernon and Normandie
Islanders Beauty Supply & Caribbean Foods
4706 S. Western Ave
323 - 293 -4392
Discoteca Bernal
2811 S. Vermont
323 - 734 - 9616
Bel Mart
3631 Crenshaw Blvd # 105
(Across from West Angeles Church)
323-733-1225
Eyerie
562-408-1000
Sea Breeze Records
3566 S. Western Ave Unit G
323-731-2927
Caribbean Market
4725 S. Hoover Street
323-232-5465
Pelican Restaurant
323-232-5487
Tu Ritmo Records
323-734-9749
Glama Urban Wear
562-422-7340
Stamina@belizeanartist.com or Aziatic@belizeanartist.com
Insider Hotline 323-696-4541
Win Big
There will be radon ticket giveaways by signing up on Belizeanartist.com win big. Other chances to win big on KYTM 1460 am every Tuesday Night from 11pm to 12 midnight on Belize Caribbean Vibes with David Buddan "The Belizean Man" and on KXLU 88.9 FM on Thursday Nights "The Reggae Show" with Junior Francis.
