Her Majesty

It takes magic to be able to draw a full house to a Calypso/Jazz/Soca concert on the same night the National Panorama Single Pan Final is held in Port of Spain.  Songstress Stacey Sobers achieved this feat with her show Crackers and Cheese at Kafe Blue (formerly Kaiso Blues Café) last Saturday evening, November 23.  Each patron was presented with a cracker and cheese hor d’oeuvres upon entry.  MC Damian Melville said, in introducing the show, the “Crackers and Cheese was the name give to a recital to complete a course of study for an Associate Degree in Performing Arts.  It’s a rite of passage, a meal given in a wake when someone has passed away, you know about Crix and biscuit?  “Nowadays is food and a bag.  It’s a meal when you’re at next to nothing, hard times, catching your…times, it’s a meal you have when you have almost everything an hor d’oeuvre, it’s satisfaction, it’s shareable, it is her story, her song, her celebration.”  It was easy to see why Sobers is a multiple-award-winning vocalist, as her performances and skillful audience interaction.