SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: LR: Stylo G, Khori Hyde – founder, Jamaicans Inspired UK, Shenika Ramsay, business development officer, Northern UK at Jamaica Tourist Board, and Docktor (Images: James Arbuckle @jamesarbucklephotography)
Submitted by The Jamaica Tourist Board
The Jamaica Tourist Board hosted some very special musical performances from Jamaican-born dancehall artists Stylo G and Docktor on August 4 at Jamaica House.
Jamaica House was a special hospitality pop up, including watch parties and themed live musical entertainment, which took place at the Glee Club every night between August 3-7 during the Commonwealth Games.
The celebrations formed part of Jamaica Tourist Board’s global Jamaica60 initiatives to celebrate the island’s sixtieth anniversary of independence.
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Crowds of enthusiastic young members of the diaspora came together to cheer on Rasheed Broadbell as they watched him race to gold in the 110m men’s hurdles, and then celebrated with dancehall and reggae from Docktor and Stylo G.
VIBRANT ATMOSPHERE: Jamaican flags were waved above the crowd and the rum punches were flowing (Images: James Arbuckle @jamesarbucklephotography)SOLD OUT EVENT: Top from left: Docktor performing, and Elizabeth Fox, regional director UK and N. Europe at Jamaica Tourist Board, Councilor Ian Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, and Councilor Sharon Thompson, cabinet member of Birmingham City Council. Bottom from left: Lyn Hughes, founding editor of Wanderlust Magazine, director of tourism, Mr. Donovan White, and Elizabeth Fox, regional director UK and N. Europe at the Jamaica Tourist Board at the Wanderlust Reader’s Event, and Stylo G performing (Images: James Arbuckle @ jamesarbucklephotography)
The atmosphere was vibrant, with many dance competitions held over the course of the night, Jamaican flags waving above the crowd and rum punches flowing.
Previously in the evening, Jamaica House also hosted a reader’s event for the award-winning travel magazine Wanderlust, led by its founding editor Lyn Hughes.
At the sold-out event, Lyn told the audience all about her experience on her recent travels to Jamaica whilst guests enjoyed patties, ackee and saltfish, and rum punches.
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