In the months since Car­ni­val 2019, the band Dil-E-Nadan has not slowed down af­ter its hec­tic sea­son. Dil-E-Nadan has been tour­ing the Unit­ed States, Eu­rope, Guyana and Suri­name. When at home, the group has per­formed at sev­er­al events in­clud­ing lead vo­cal­ist, Ray­mond Ram­nar­ine’s own an­nu­al pro­duc­tion, “Every­bo­day Loves Ray­mond,” which saw its fi­nal run this year to a sold out au­di­ence.

Ram­nar­ine and his broth­ers, Richard and Ren­nie, along with the oth­er mem­bers of the band are look­ing for­ward to a packed sum­mer with car­ni­vals in Toron­to, Lon­don and New York com­ing up. Then comes Sep­tem­ber and Ram­nar­ine’s (Ray­mond) birth­day which he in­tends to cel­e­brate in fine style this year.

Want­i­ng to cel­e­brate with his lo­cal fans as well as those from across the re­gion and oth­er coun­tries like nev­er be­fore, Ram­nar­ine and his broth­ers have de­cid­ed to present a two-day fes­ti­val of mu­sic ti­tled, ‘The Show Stop­pa at SAPA’. This takes place at the Sun­dar Popo Au­di­to­ri­um, Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (South) some­times re­ferred to as SAPA (South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts).

Ram­nar­ine and the band have re­alised af­ter their most re­cent shows that a one-night show is just not enough. Many peo­ple have missed out be­cause there was not enough room to ac­com­mo­date the all the fans who want­ed to at­tend (the pre­vi­ous shows). Al­so, the quite ex­pan­sive port­fo­lio of mu­sic built by the band over the years is too vast to present in one night with­out caus­ing pa­trons to com­plain about not hear­ing songs they were look­ing for­ward to, hence, the two-day fes­ti­val event.

Day one is on Sat­ur­day 28th Sep­tem­ber at 8pm, while day two of this unique fes­ti­val will be held on Sun­day 29th Sep­tem­ber from 5:30 pm.

‘The Show Stop­pa At SAPA’ is be­ing pro­duced and pre­sent­ed by Randy Glas­gow Pro­duc­tions (RGP). Team Ram­nar­ine and Team RGP are work­ing to­geth­er to fash­ion an un­for­get­table show par­tic­u­lar­ly be­cause this will be the first time that Ram­nar­ine and Dil-E-Nadan will be per­form­ing at the venue.

An im­pres­sive line-up of guest artistes is be­ing as­sem­bled to cel­e­brate with Ram­nar­ine on his spe­cial day. An­oth­er out­stand­ing fea­ture of this event is that pa­trons are be­ing in­vit­ed by RGP to bring their own food and drinks to en­joy at their ve­hi­cles in the car park dur­ing the ex­tend­ed in­ter­mis­sion and af­ter the shows each night, tail­gate style. Tail­gat­ing is very pop­u­lar at foot­ball and base­ball games in the US. Maybe, Ram­nar­ine (Ray­mond) and the band will be join­ing the fans for a bite.

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