Kavelle Anglin-Christie, Staff Reporter

Everybody Come Feel Up but ... The Jamaica Folk Singers perform the classic during their concert season under the theme "Ol Time Story", held at the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Drive on Friday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

The folk singers are known for traditional folk songs, so one might expect a monotonous night filled with folk songs that we've heard our grandparents sing ever so often, but all who attended the show 'Good Ole Days' will agree that the night was far from being so.

Firstly, unlike many shows, this one started promptly at 8:00 p.m. with the singing of the National Anthem. The entire show was delivered in the form of a story, which made it more attention grabbing for the audience, especially the younger ones. Set in the pre-emancipation era, the first scene was that of the slaves getting ready for a day at work, and while doing so sang Mi Coffee.

Perfect unison

In another setting as the male singers sang I Was Rafting On The River, Oho! to the delight of the audience, did the rafting movements in perfect unison. Another scene which had some in the audience clapping and rocking was the market scene and the songs in that segment .

Young lovers, higglers, those looking for things to buy, flocked the market on the Saturday, and as they did so sang Come We Go Dung a ... Market. However, in no time 'Helena' was not feeling well and her mother sent her home to boil cerasee. We all know how that story goes, Helena boiled the wrong 'bush', but the scene was well acted.

Then there was the disappointing end of the market day when not much had been sold because "everybody come feel up feel up, but not a ackee no sell" and the sadness in the faces of the singers proved how difficult the day had been.

Excitement

Then there was the all important scene on what being a field slave must have been like. With all the women bundled and cringing when the overseer cracked his whip and the men at a distance pulling heavy load, the song Run Moses Run, which tells the story of a slave attempting was met with some excitement from the audience.

Then came one of the famous freedom fighters Paul Bogle and to represent who he was and the war he fought in, they sang of the War On The Plantation and for those who had never thought of how his funeral went, that too was illustrated.

Overall, the production was a good one, and gave the audience a glimpse and a different interpretation of what life was like for our ancestors, on both their sad and good ole days.