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LEFT: Peter Lloyd (right), gives a sterling performance while Winston Blake guides him at Celebrity Mothers' Mix '06. RIGHT: The scouts demonstrate their skills at Celebrity Mothers' Mix '06.REMEMBER THE days when people use to rock until the wee hours of the night? That's what happened when Custos of Manchester Hon. Dr. Gilbert Allen discovered that patrons at the sixth staging of Manchester Scouts Local Association's Celebrity Mothers' Mix would not go home.
He gently walked on the stage and placed Beres Hammond's Rockaway, his signature song for families on the turntable and patrons went wild.
It was then 9:00 p.m., and the patrons who started dancing from 2:00 p.m. were still hungry for more from the Merritones and the celebrity men who stole the Mothers' Day event.
Newcomer Mutabaruka, a hard act to follow shocked his audience with his string of disco and rock and roll selections. These kept the audience on their feet all afternoon. The women loved him and as Jamaica's dub poet marshalled his music and danced his audience into the arms of Peter Lloyd.
FAST, HIP AND EXCITING
Peter Lloyd was fast, hip and exciting for the middle-aged men and women and their families. However, they kept pace with him and he danced and pranced and twirled them into the hands of Professor Errol Morrison, president/chief executive officer of Blue Cross of Jamaica. With hits like: Sexual Healing, Easy Snapping, Book of Rules, the professor charmed his admirers, then walked quietly onto the dance floor.
Tony Rebel ejected everyone from their seats and took on as many women who could get their hands around his neck. Everyone had something to dance to, and dance they did. One woman kicked her shoes off, grabbed a scout member and raced around the lawn. The scouts started a great party line, which snaked through and through the crowd, around the palm trees, around the lawn and back.
Ibo Cooper delighted the crowd as did David Ellis of Sandals Resorts and Dr. Clinton Hutton who worked a soothing half-an-hour, keeping everyone focused, interested and lively. Dr. Clifton Reid, chairman of the Manchester Scouts Local Association and Guardian Asset Management Mandeville Branch Manager, Lloyd Howell also did great sets.
Celebrity Mothers' Mix is an event for the entire family. The ambience is right, the audience is always enthusiastic and once again Mandeville ended Mothers' Day on a memorable note.
