TORTOLA — Ten years after his death, the East End Long Look Festival committee will host a major jam to celebrate the life of the late Nick “Daddy” Friday. Above, Daddy Friday on the left with singing.
This Saturday, October 10th the committee will be hosting a beach jam at Long Bay Beef Island, from 1pm until.
Chairperson of the East End/Long Look Festival Committee Sandra Potter Warrican told VI Consortium that Daddy Friday was a big part of them in that village and its one of the reasons they chose to honour him this way.
“When festival happen in East End/Long Look, when he was around… he was the beginning, the middle, the tramp, he was the ending. Once you had Daddy Friday you didn’t need anyone else. He made the Festival, and the awesome jam band”, Potter Warrican said.
She said after it came to their memory that this year is ten years, we thought it would be a good function, as a fundraiser and also to pay tribute to the awesome entertainer.
Potter Warrican said during the beach jam they would be playing all his hits from the days of Eddy and the Movements and come up forward to when he performed in the Festival Village in East End, Long Look and when he was on the road during tramp time up to just before his passing.
She also said that people approached them to go even further and do it in another setting, this is actually two-parts, then on October 31st in the village, but this going to be an informal celebration on the beach playing his music, doing some trivia, giving away some prizes, some memorial t-shirts with his image, its gonna be a good time we think.
The chairperson said part two will be held in the East End/Long Look Festival Village, where as some people say they can go wild.
Potter Warrican said Friday’s music continues to have a huge impact in the community.
“It appears to me that he is bigger in death than in life just like Bob Marley.
The Chairperson said they also reached out to his family in the USVI during the planning of this event and they are fully on board and part proceeds will be going to the Nick Friday scholarship Fund.
“I understand some of his fans from the USVI will also be coming over for Saturday’s Beach jam”, she said.
Image Credit: Daddy Friday Forever Facebook page.
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