Singers rule at Tastee showdown

Entertainment

Thursday, September 12, 2013

FROM the group of 18 contestants who participated at Tastee Talent Trail road show/fun day held at Manchester High School in Mandeville on Saturday, eight will be selected.The lucky eight will join a field of 24 other contestants who were selected from previous road shows.According to Howard McGowan, Tastee Talent Trail communication manager, the dance groups have improved significantly when compared to the competition’s previous staging.“The dance level has exceeded previous years, but the singers continue to dominate the competition,” McGowan told the Jamaica Observer.The chosen few comprises seven singers and a dance group. The batch includes Marshalee Guthery, who did a rendition of the Four Tops’ I Believe in You and Me; Kerri-Ann Tiwien, who performed Adele’s Don’t You Remember; Dean McGowan, impressed with an original composition titled Mary Mary; while Kerriann Miller covered Jimmy Cliff’s Many Rivers to Cross. Kevrol Diah sang Rihanna’s Stay; Johnell Matthews performed Mary J Blige’s I’m Going Down, and Dane Williams did a rendition of The Manhattans’ Kiss and Say Good Bye. The Str8 Edge Society Dancers were the only dance outfit selected.The group of 32 will face further elimination, bringing the contestants to 10 on November 21 at Tastee’s headquarters in Cross Roads in St Andrew. The remaining entrants will get a shot at December 12 grand finals, which will be held at the same location and a chance to win $1 million.UMI Dancers from St Thomas performing at Tastee Talent Trail road show/fun day held at Manchester High School in Mandeville on Saturday.

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Jackson Shield showdown set for today

Sport

Paul ReidSaturday, August 31, 2013

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Cornwall College and Munro College will continue their build-up to the start of the 2013 ISSA/Lime daCosta Cup schoolboys’ football competition, when they meet in the 21st annual Jackson Shield pre-season festival set for Jarrett Park this afternoon, starting at 1:00 pm.Cornwall College, who will be coached by Dr Dean Weatherly, will be seeking their third straight hold and 17th overall in the two-game series that will also see the over-35 teams of both schools meeting in the 3:00 pm feature.The competition’s format sees the daCosta Cup teams meeting in the first game before the over-35 teams meet in the second game and the aggregate scores between both games are used to determine the winners.The Cornwall College daCosta cup team has won the last two games in the series, but reports are that Munro College under coach Andrew Edwards for the second straight season, could be one of the fancied team this season.Munro has, however, failed to score against Cornwall in the daCosta Cup game in the last three meetings, except for the 2010 game that was played in thick fog at Munro when the home team prevailed 5-1.The event is usually held just prior to the start of the daCosta competition and as such the daCosta Cup coaches usually play their best teams, at least for the start of the game, as the coaches seek to get a better idea of where they are in terms of readiness for the season.The 2013 ISSA daCosta Cup season, which was launched two days ago, is set to get underway on Saturday, September 7 with a double-header at the Montego Bay Sports Complex at Catherine Hall.

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