New home for Dutty Fridaze

The popular weekly party Dutty Fridaze, usually staged in Fletcher's Land, will move from its regular venue to Hellshire Beach in Portmore, says promoter Wayne '2 Gran' Bartley.
"Dutty Fridaze will be heading to Hellshire starting this Labour Day, May 23. That will be the new home, Hellshire Beach, every Friday," he said.

Bartley says the idea to change the venue came about after failure to get a permit to stage the event from the police. This caused the promoters to put off the event indefinitely.

Since the flare-up of violence in the division, Dutty Fridaze has suffered, as the event has not been held for more than a month.

"Di police nuh wah give us nuh permit because a di violence a Southside and Tell-Aviv. Dem nuh wah nuh no war ting go bruk out," he said.

Bartley says Hellshire was chosen as the venue because he wanted a different vibe.
"What we were looking for was a venue in Kingston that had a beach type of vibes and we thought Hellshire would be the right place to bring that vibes and the venue nuh attract a lot of night noise," he said.

Adding, "We recently kept a beach party a Portland and the vibes and attitude weh di girls dem bring did mad. A da vibes deh we did a look for to add to Dutty Fridaze."

Despite the fact that most of his regular attendees are from Fletcher's Land, Bartley says, "We also have a lot of people weh support wi wey travel from Portmore and other districts to come to Dutty Fridaze each week, so we'll have the support."

Bartley says for the first three weeks to a month, he will be providing free bus transportation from Fletcher's Land for persons wanting to attend the event.

Dutty Fridaze and other weekly events have been affected by the recent enforcement by the police of the 2 a.m. lock-off time for all dances and events.


Source: Jamaica Star