FORMER WEST Indian and Leeward Island cricketing giant Curtly Ambrose is a feature performer on this year's staging of 'Professionals in Cabaret'. The Starcall promoted event will also feature Ian Andrews of CVM Television and Heather Grant of KLAS FM.
The annual show, which takes place in the first two months of the year, is geared towards those performers who have a profession outside of music and features people who are not normally known for their musical exploits.
The 2004 edition of the show is slated for Sunday, February 15, during the Valentine's weekend at the Hilton Hotel in new Kingston.
Ambrose, while being known more for his cricketing talent rather than his musical gifts, is nonetheless a very talented musician. Ambrose has been known to travel on many a West Indies tour toting his acoustic guitar. Since his retirement from the sport of cricket, he has been affiliated with a band known as 'The New Dread and the Bald Head', which is apparently very popular in Antigua.
The annual show had its first staging in January of 2001 and since then has gained rousing support. 'Professionals in Cabaret' is geared towards those
people who are looking for an alternative to the limited scope that Christmas stage shows tend to offer. It is supposed to also point to the fact that musical expression is not relegated to those with limited intelligence quotients (IQ) or to those that have no other talents. In so doing it goes against trend whereby music sometimes seems to undermine the importance of education.
