By Germaine Smith, Staff ReporterDESPITE EARLIER showers in Kingston hundreds of patrons turned up at the Mas Camp Village for Saturday Night's Heineken Startime Dance Party.
Thunderous showers pelted the Mas Camp dance floor for most of Saturday evening, but in a timely twist of fate or divine intervention, the rain ended and the waters subsided enough to give patrons the chance to move about.
The village did not see a full crowd, but that made some happy. They could move about with a bit more freedom without smashing toes and kicking over bottles placed on the ground. Access to all bars and food stalls was easy on Saturday night.
ADORABLE WOMEN
But the venue was not empty either. Adorable women 'dressed to kill' littered the huge dance floor and so did groups of men who were on the prowl.
There were tiny puddles of water around the venue but this did not prevent some women from kicking off their shoes and parading barefooted on the cool surface. And parade they did.
Upwardly sliding short skirts, hip-hugging jeans, skimpy blouses fighting the tummies underneath, they were all there. Patrons just rocked to the tunes and seemed to care about nothing else.
The selectors at play, Noel Dacres, Wee Pow, Mr. Wong, and Squeeze, laced tracks from all eras, and from all genres. From techno, to calypso, to roots rock, they all gave a taste. The tempo expectedly rose, fell and rose again due to this.
The set-up of the venue for the dance party seemed at first strange; however, later it became clear. Towards the back section dozens of chairs and small tables were laying around, something unlikely at an outdoor party. But after heated bouts of dancing, scores of tired bodies propped themselves down into the chairs.
If you had walked in the session and headed to the back, you probably would have thought that these were just lazy people sitting through a good session, but it was more of a resting spot.
Just like herds bundling at the watering hole, so were the tired bones who claimed the chairs for rest.
The dance party it seemed, was a session of purpose. To cap off the session, Keith Brown, an MKB director, announced that half of the gate proceeds would be donated to the National Blood Bank.
