ENTERTAINMENT
DANCE
PARADE
Humbleton
takes up his
musical calling ce Dancers at the Dance Parade New York. Huzhong Cai
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“Before We Were Wicked” author
Eric Jerome Dickey. Joseph Jones
Photography
By Nelson A. King
New Jamaican reggae artiste Humbleton
has added to the mix of influential
reggae artists in the Caribbean island.
According to Tracy-Ann “Roxxi”
Chung, public relations coordinator
of the Brooklyn-based PlaybookMG,
Humbleton hails from the parish of
Hanover.
“Humbleton proclaims his calling
was music; and, with his innate passion
for music, he wants to spread the positive
message and uplift the youths of
Jamaica,” Chung told Caribbean Life on
Wednesday, April 17.
She said Humbleton promotes “good
vibe” and “positive changes,” with songs
The 13th Annual Dance Parade,
will be held on Saturday, May 18, with
more than 10,000 paraders including
students, professionals, young and
old, with color, costumes, and music
engaging in 80 unique styles of dance
and culture.
“With all the rhetoric of walls
and xenophobia, it’s important that
we acknowledge and support cultural
treasures that exist across the
world and here in New York,” said
Greg Miller, Dance Parade’s executive
director. “This year’s honorees for
Grand Marshal were selected based
on their commitment to promoting
diversity, equity, humanity inclusion
and unity, in their art and work.
Dance is truly a universal language
and the Parade and DanceFest really
is a Movement of the People.”
Headlining the event as Grand
Marshals are Tony award winners
Bill T. Jones and Baayork Lee as well
as Native American Louis Mofsie and
DJ Dara.
Before the parade begins at 1 pm,
Louis Mofsie founding member of
Thunderbird American Indian Dance
will lead a Circle Dance of 30 people
at 21st Street and Broadway to recognize
Mannahatta as unceded homeland
of the Lenape Peoples. Then the
parade will kick off.
“We have at least a dozen groups
with ties to dance styles in the Caribbean
and Latin America among
them Fit4Dance (Soca Afro Caribbean),
Tropicalfete (Caribbean Stilt
walkers), Aty Tentayape (Tobas
Amazon Folklore), Boliviaran Car-
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“Before We Were Wicked” by Eric
Jerome Dickey
c.2019, Dutton
$27.00 / $36.00 Canada
341 pages
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
They said it would never work.
He married up too high. She was
a gold-digger and he didn’t realize it
yet. She wanted a Daddy figure; he was
Mama’s Boy. Neither was good enough
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