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The 15th Annual St. Kitts Music Festival takes place Thursday June 23 to Saturday June 25, 2011 at the Warner Park Stadium in Basseterre.  The line up looks pretty good.

 


I absolutely love Danza Kuduro! With Omari Ferrari on this track, I hope to hear it for this upcoming carnival season. Espeically since I can't get enough of Omari Ferrari's song, In De Fete, where he reppin' the Virgin Islands HARD !!

 
The roots of kuduro can be traced to the late 1980s when producers in Luanda, Angola started mixing African percussion samples with simple calypso and soca rhythms to create a style of music then known as "batida" which evolved to Kuduro. Kuduro dancing is similar to Dancehall dancing of Jamaica. It combines traditional Angolan Kilapanga, Semba and Zouk with Western house and techno. Kuduro is very popular across the former Portuguese overseas provinces in Africa, as well as in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal, due to the large number of Angolan immigrants.
Here is the video of Don Omar ft. Lucenzo  Danza Kuduro. This song was #1 on Latin Songs on the Billboards. Read more about Kuduro at Cutlass & Cane and here.




Here is my favorite Kuduro videos/songs:



Growing up, I definitely took these fruits for granted. Now, I'll kill for some sweet sugar apple, sea grapes and guineps. While on my "mandatory" tour of Antigua, we got lucky. The Fruit Gods blessed us!

As a child, my mother put the fear of God in me when eating guineps. She had a childhood friend that choked on the seed. She would make us bite through the seed before sucking on it so it's no longer round. I know I'll have my kids do the same. Thanks Mom!

Seriously, when you find a sweet guinep tree you guard it with your life, you keep it a secret and find someone agile to climb the tree for  you.  We didn't have to do any climbing. We got this bunch of guineps when we pulled into a gas station from a  little girl who was all about making some money.




Guinep goodness



Guinep seed


Sugar Apple has always been one of my favorite fruits...second to passion fruit. It can be messy because the flesh/meat is mushy and ohhhhh soooo gooooooood. There are tons of seeds and eating it can be tedius but I think it makes for longer enjoyment ;). Who dare refuses that???




The story behind the pic below: When we bought the 2 sugar apples, we ate one before I got to take any pics of the flesh/meat. So, I kept the other one and decided to eat it later and take the pics then. Well, I forgot it in the car and I left for Grenada the next day. Maybe 2 days later I got this pic on my BlackBerry from Feebs and Juliette enjoying MY sugar apple. So, that's what the flesh/meat look like.


I haven't had sea grapes in over 15 years. I don't see the trees on beaches as much as I did while I was growing up in St. Thomas. So, when I saw this tree at Nelson's Dock Yard in Antigua... I tried to take it down and bring it back to Atlanta with me. 

The darker the berry the sweeter the fruit is the TRUTH with sea grapes. You don't want to eat the green grapes. They have large seeds and when you find a sweet tree...you try to make wine like my Mommy did.











I had all these fruits in the same day. Not recommended unless you have a close and personal relationship with your toilet :-/


Region: US Virgin Islands, Caribbean
Price: US $45,000,000
Status: for sale
Size: 510 acres

Location: 1.5 miles north of Magens Bay, St. Thomas

Only $45 Million...if each of you sell your first born child, I'll be able to buy my island. Yes, I've already claimed it so don't try to buy it from out under me :)

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"Whereas in your culture, it is the custom to pay your money to go into an enclosed place to observe other people perform, in my culture, on the island from which I come, it is the custom to pay your money to perform. The performer is the person who really get the thrill." -Peter Minshall

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