Friday evening we attended our very first Jazz in the Park "Divas edition," although we missed the first performer Seanise Jeffers who has a beautiful voice, and an amazing soul we're sure she absolutely killed it. This event was held at Fort Christian on the lawn, the performers were center stage at the band stand serenading the crowd with beautiful music. Each of the artist had their own unique voice and personally that comes along with it. Eddie Russell a pillar in this community was the event organizer of the evening, this is done on a monthly basis by Community Music Inc, a non profit organization that seeks to bring our diverse community together through music.
This concert happens once a month, from 5:30pm-7:30pm, it first began April 2013 by a small group of music lovers. Edwin Russell, David Bess, Stan and Gayle Vanasse. This was created to encourage and promote social harmony and educational enrichment through music. The reason behind "Jazz in the Park," is to raise funds to create St. Croix music center. Promoting musical growth is one of their major goals and its absolutely amazing. Anything to promote music in the Virgin Islands and even to the world, it always worth it. The evening was short,but it was very sweet and entertaining. The crowd was quite impressed with all the performers and even sang their praises after each of their performances. The 3 performers of the night were Seanise Jeffers, Lorna Freeman, and Blackness Creese. These 3 have the voices of angels, the performer we were most impressed for the evening was Lorna Freeman who closed out the show with her beautiful voice.
Lorna Freeman sang Somewhere over the rainbow from the Wizard of Oz and the crowd was memorized. Blackness Creese is a true inspiration on why women should be united in this music industry today. She showed amazing love and support for Lorna and we loved that. Community Music Inc, put on an a spectacular show and it definitely needs more recognition. Although it was a free show to the public donations are still accepted, the goal of this event was to shed a light on Cruzian Kids Rock a free after school music program. Slightly used instruments and monetary funds are accepted. All in all the event was a success and Community Music Inc, round of applause to what you guys do for the community.
