The Dr Geral­dine Con­nor Memo­r­i­al Com­mit­tee will cel­e­brate her life in a mu­si­cal trib­ute en­ti­tled Geri's Jour­ney. This trib­ute will take place at Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral, Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, on May 25 start­ing at 6 pm. Artistes sched­uled to per­form are Mavis John, Atak­lan, Ray­mond Ed­wards, Anne Fridal, Mar­vin Smith, The Car­ni­val Mes­si­ah mem­bers, The Laven­tille Drum­mers, tas­sa drum­mers and many more. The au­di­ence will be treat­ed to ex­cerpts from Car­ni­val Mes­si­ah, Dr Con­nor's most cel­e­brat­ed work, with mu­si­cal ac­com­pa­ni­ment pro­vid­ed by Dr Charles Brun­ner. Mau­rice Brash will be the mas­ter of cer­e­monies. Al­though the event will be free to the pub­lic, an of­fer­ing will be col­lect­ed dur­ing the course of the evening. The com­mit­tee is seek­ing to find all past mem­bers of the Car­ni­val Mes­si­ah pro­duc­tion to join in this spec­tac­u­lar event.

Fol­low­ing this, there will be a ben­e­fit par­ty ti­tled Jazz It For Geri to be held on May 27 at Le Cafe Opera, 13 Cipri­ani Boule­vard, Port-of-Spain, start­ing from 5pm. Tick­ets can be pur­chased by call­ing 766-9300/763-8681 or at Cleve's Record Shop on Fred­er­ick Street, Port-of-Spain. A jazz band is sched­uled to per­form at the event. The Dr Geral­dine Con­nor Memo­r­i­al Com­mit­tee is a re­cent­ly formed body of friends fam­i­ly and mem­bers of the per­form­ing arts fra­ter­ni­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, whose pur­pose is to pro­mote the works of Dr Geral­dine Con­nor. Spe­cial­is­ing in de­vis­ing epic the­atre events, Geral­dine boast­ed di­rec­to­r­i­al skills guar­an­teed to add brio to any writer's work. Dr Con­nor's work in­cludes Car­ni­val Mes­si­ah, which she wrote, com­posed for and di­rect­ed. She al­so brought life to epic pro­duc­tions in­clud­ing Yaa As­an­te­waa, Blues In The Night, The Hard­er They Come, Voodoo Na­tion and many more. As a per­former, she toured with pro­duc­tions of Por­gy and Bess, Show­boat and Car­men Jones, and was a back­ing singer for Bob Mar­ley, Jim­my Cliff and Tom Jones. In 2005, she ac­cept­ed an award from the British As­so­ci­a­tion of Steel Bands in recog­ni­tion of the Con­nor fam­i­ly's con­tri­bu­tion to the pro­mo­tion of steel­band mu­sic, Caribbean art, cul­ture and her­itage through­out the UK. In 2009, she was pre­sent­ed with Trinidad and To­ba­go's sec­ond high­est na­tion­al ho­n­our, the Cha­co­nia medal (gold).

Dr Con­nor, eth­no-mu­si­col­o­gist, the­atre di­rec­tor, com­pos­er and per­former passed away in Sep­tem­ber 2011 at Har­ro­gate Hos­pi­tal in Eng­land.