The 2009 Let The Good Times Roll Festival invited SBC'ers to brave the heat to enjoy some great local and national Black music.
The 3-day festival featured acts from right in town, as well as national recording artists like Latimore, Vickie Baker and Pretty Ricky.
Two separate stages welcomed music lovers to the celebration. The main stage, sponsored by festival organizers RHO OMEGA & FRIENDS, was surrounded by amazing food and vendor booths/tents.
I only went out into the heat of the night once, on Saturday, to work the Radio Group stage on the other side of the Plaza. But I arrived early, with 5 teens/pre-teens in tow (my niece, her friend, two cousins and my nephew) to go to the main stage and see one of my new favorite local bands, INTUITION, play:
After listening to the band blaze the stage ... My crew looked for refreshments (and I browsed some of the vendors selling Greek paraphernalia ... Shout out to Stomping Ground T's @ 3420 Jewella .. I'll be there this week!!).
As far as food & beverage, all I ate was half a funnel cake (thanks Brandi) and I got a "Cajun" Sno-Ball (which was soooo good .. and one of the cheapest things there so the line was LONG lol); Later in the night, I also got some awesome lemonade from a vendor on the other side.
Speaking of the other side ... It housed the stage that was sponsored by The Radio Group (home of KDKS 102.1 and KBTT 103.7)
Over a dozen local and regional-gone-national performers hit the Radio Group stage Saturday night ... including A-1 BOLD, KEL, YOCKIE JOE, COLBY KING (pictured above), THR3SOME (sp?), THE PDA BOYZ, THE NAUGHTY BY NATURE BOYZ, K.P., BHAMP, BIG POPPA and the group that damn near started a riot -- PRETTY RICKY.
An ATSBC favorite (maybe because we Spotlighted him just last week and his following had grown bigger ever since) ... BILLY BROADWAY also hit the stage late in the evening ...
He and his fellow UnderDog rapper, D.T. (pictured with him below) rocked the stage for the mostly teenaged crowd ...
Despite the heat (which wasn't all the bad thanks to the evening breeze), and me having to run around like a headless chicken, it was a great night for lovers of Black music. Grown folks music on one side ... and young folks muisc on the other.
My teen crew THOROUGHLY enjoyed themselves ... and from the screams and sweat-drenched outfits, I can tell everyone else did too.
The kids I brought along made comments like: "It was like being at a club" and claimed "they should do this all the time!" (a hint to the promoters/organizers of the event).
The only downside to the whole weekend was the MIA singer JOE, who was scheduled to perform on the Main Stage around 6 pm on Sunday night
My sources say that bad weather prevented Joe's flight from leaving, and numerous attempts to get him on a flight that would have had him on stage .. failed.
I don't know how much notice event-goers were given or who performed in JOE's place, but needless to say, I'm sure he was missed.
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