Mr. Impact in The Gap too!

I was heading to Dover pasture earlier tonight to take in some of the annual Joel Garner Tapeball 20-20 Cricket competition with over ten teams made up with youthful and mature players affiliated somehow with the various secondary schools past and present of Barbados when Peter Dear reminded me that De Shak  Bar and Grill at Dover Beach features the outstanding musician Mr. Impact every Saturday night from 7 until 11! Mr. Impact sings sweetly and plays his steelpan adroitly at several spots on the South coast several times a week, but the "Put Yuh Hand on De Bumper" (a soca hit several years ago) manager says the place to see him perform is at De Shak! I usually like his performances at Mo's Grill in Oistins every Monday night and at Crystal Waters Beach Bar, Worthing every second Sunday afternoon. I plan to check the Shak Shak show soon on a Saturday night! Oh by the way, Saint Leonard's Secondary defeated the Grantley Adams Secondary team in the twenty overs per side game!

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN THE GAP.......again!!

So hard to blog when the beautiful weather everyday beckons you to just relax at my two favourite liming spots: Crystal Waters Beach Bar at Worthing and the newly reopened Sanddollar Café at Dover Beach! Talking about reopening, there have been a few re-openings and openings in the St. Lawrence Gap recently. Time Out Hotel with its Sporting Pig Bar is back; the once called Bresmay Hotel, then Escape Hotel is now Infinity on the Beach; Jobu’s Restaurant and Bar is now Sharkey’s Restaurant and Bar; and The Old Jamm Inn club has given a new life to what was Lipgloss and before it the popular Afterdark Nightclub. A small café named Bliss has joined the upper part of the Gap and is beside Express Car Rentals, and a medium sized restaurant called Crave is at the front of the Reggae Lounge. If you crave not only tasty food but some flavourful jazz, you can enjoy it with top Bajan songstress Cici and ace guitarist, in any genre, Mike Sealy on Sunday nights at Crave Restaurant and Bar. It’s open from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. daily with a happy hour from 6 to 8 p.m. For another jazzy session you can check out Panta Brown (keyboards) and Boo Rudder (drums) and a bassist on Wednesday nights as you dine or sip a few drinks at Rush Restaurant and Bar. And the Thursday nights jazz continues at Ocean 15 with Errol Bradshaw and Friends!

For the under thirty party peoples Sugar Ultra Lounge blasts off from 9 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday nights where disc-jockeys mostly play R&B,house, hip-hop, soca, reggae, and other pop music. For these same partiers the recently nicely refurbished Reggae Lounge and McBride’s Pub serve up mostly reggae, soca, and R&B with the occasional live band and are opened seven and six nights respectively. I particularly like the patio groove of Old Jamm Inn which often features some of the best young musicians in Bim! There, my recent guest Nish from New York jammed one night on his sitar with a local artist; both musicians and the audience enjoyed a lot that impromptu session!  Another cool patio space with artists mostly doing the alternative music ting is the buzzing, well established Café Sol at the start of The Gap. Indeed the Gap has been buzzing very much with visitors and locals alike since December! I hope this will continue right into Crop-Over which will be in full swing come July!