Sumfest 2025

 I thought Sumfest 2024 was a bit better  (can't forget Freddie McGregor and Babyface' s outstanding performances,) but this year still selloff!

The band change before Toni Braxton's performance was a bit long and I fell asleep😡. However what I caught of her, including her massive hit "unbreak my heart" was so dynamic, it made up for everything I missed.

We arrived there early and got our usual spot at the fence and that's why the pics are not so clear. But what the heck, it's a cell phone camera!

I especially enjoyed Fantan Mojah who I haven't heard for some time, but he said he had been in hospital.

Bugle was good as usual and Protegee has improved 100% since I last saw him.

 Love how Fantan Mojah and IWayne preached against child abuse, sexual predators and incest. Very appropriate as we have been reading about some horrific cases in the local papers.

Annea

Bugle

Rasta empress in audience waved her flag all night😊

Protegee at work

Toni Braxton is really beautiful 

Comfortable by the fence

Good night of solid entertainment all around and we were home by 4.30am.

 That meant leaving before Taurus Riley came on, but have seen him dozens of times.

I was a bit sorry for the vendors though. There were twice or three times more vendors than normal on the outside and when we were leaving, they had so much stuff left over which I guess they have to pay to transport everything back.

They seem to have forgotten that there were stalls selling everything on the inside.

So sad, they were just trying to make some money from the festival but it didn't seem to work out too well for most.

Such confusion!

I have been attending music festivals organized by the city of Tamarac for almost a decade now, (thankfully., we have a personable, music-loving Mayor here!). However, I have never seen one that was delivered with such confusion as Yard on the Grass on June 28, 2025, featuring Morgan Heritage.

Normally, these are free events and you simply park at the Recreation Center or City Hall, catch a shuttle bus and enjoy an entertaining evening. 

Not this one. This was born in total confusion.

For to begin, although it was a free event, tickets had to be obtained from Eventbrite, which kept insisting weeks before the event that the tickets were "sold out."

However, simultaneously with that false claim, Tamarac City was disturbing posters all over the city inviting the public to attend the supposedly sold out event?

 Then to add insult to injury, days before the event, ads appeared on Facebook  offering VIP tickets for a whopping $250!

Despite the mixed messages, a reasonable crowd turned out, but I am convinced far more people would have attended and had an enjoyable afternoon, had it not been the total confusion outlined above. (I know lots of people who did not attend as they told me it was sold out long ago😡.)

Anyway, the Grammy winning group Morgan Heritage saved the day.

And there was a short surprise input by long time reggae singer Noddy Virtue of Rebel in me fame.

Noddy Virtue

Overall it was a good evening of entertainment, good food and camaraderie, only spoiled by the MC Miss Kitty, who would not stop interrupting DJ Mighty Mike with her constant, meaningless chatter, during the musical entertainment preceding the main event!

Morgan Heritage takes the stage

After introducing the appreciative crowd to the latest recruits to the super-talented family Morgan Heritage group, his son and the son of the late member Peter Morgan, Gramps Morgan brought the event to a wonderful close with his monster hit People Like You:

  https://youtu.be/F727iU7jPOE?si=mfUPrruzyK8mD51Z.