THE GOOD Times series of parties drew its biggest audience last Saturday night at the Countryside Club, Eastwood Park Road, Kingston. This left producers, The Quorum, feeling good about their efforts.
The party attracted a quality audience with many familiar faces turning out. One of the promoters, Jerome Hamilton, told The Gleaner that the party now has a core support from persons who look forward to each staging.
"People have come to Good Times and fallen in love. People have found their long lost friends and relationships have been re-united here. These are some of the things that make Good Times special," he said.
But it was the music that seemed to matter most to the people on Saturday night. The selectors were in awesome form and the patrons were simply delighted. Dwight Grey of Music Merchant played hits from the 1970s and 1980s.
Frank Nelson, of Soul Sensation, played 1980s' music, while Kurt Riley of FAME FM spun the dancehall hits and sounds from early 1990s. The selectors all seemed to work to a plan, as they relived the glorious party days of their respective periods, with the biggest hits of those times.
According to Hamilton: "We are perhaps the only promoters that meet with the DJs and give guidelines as to what are compulsory tunes and what our audience would like to hear. This has worked well so far because our audience always seems pleased."
The Good Times series gives part proceeds to the Mona Rehab Centre and the event is staged twice yearly, May and November.
- A.C.
