Nick­o­lai Sal­cedo, star of the re­cent award-win­ning film Hero, will be the main at­trac­tion at the next edi­tion of Song­shine on No­vem­ber 4th.

The singer/song­writer, mu­si­cian, ac­tor and vi­su­al artist, will per­form his orig­i­nal songs in an un­plugged set at the long-stand­ing open mic con­cert se­ries.

The event will take place at EAST YARD on Prince Street in Ari­ma, a re­laxed, open-air, mul­ti­pur­pose arts space. All per­form­ers, both sea­soned and emerg­ing, are wel­come to par­tic­i­pate in the open mic seg­ment.

The show will be a home­com­ing of sorts for Sal­cedo, who says: “Song­shine was ac­tu­al­ly where I had my first start as a per­form­ing mu­si­cian. So it’s on­ly fit­ting for me to come back here.”

“It’s al­ways fun­ny to come full cir­cle.”

That first per­for­mance was as lead singer of the band Gyazette. Af­ter lead­ing the group for sev­en years, in­clud­ing at Car­ifes­ta in Suri­name, Sal­cedo got in­to act­ing, which he says led him to be­come a so­lo artiste.

As with Gyazette (whose mu­sic he wrote), Sal­cedo’s mu­sic is a blend of a mul­ti­tude of in­flu­ences with Ca­lyp­so World Mu­sic. He says his new di­rec­tion is one of “in­tro­spec­tion and re­flec­tion with a mes­sage of change and growth”.

Song­shine pro­duc­er Gillian Moor, with her band Bush Tea, will al­so per­form.

The No­vem­ber edi­tion of Song­shine will take place through part­ner­ship with Gold Spon­sor Massy Foun­da­tion. The Foun­da­tion lends sup­port to com­mu­ni­ty or­gan­i­sa­tions that work “to im­prove the qual­i­ty of life for ...the lo­cal com­mu­ni­ty and so­ci­ety at large”.

Song­shine’s Ari­ma edi­tion has fea­tured icon­ic tal­ents such as Earl Lovelace, Ozy Mer­rique, Ruth Os­man and Marge Black­man dur­ing the past year, while fos­ter­ing a youth­ful com­mu­ni­ty of sup­port for the Arts.

DE­TAILS:

Song­shine takes place on Sun­day, No­vem­ber 4th, from 6-10pm.

Venue: EAST YARD. 27 Prince Street, Ari­ma (op­po­site Kool Ko­rner Bar & Boss Ah Soup), near the cor­ner of El Car­men Street.

Ad­mis­sion: $50. $20 for open-mic per­form­ers. More in­fo: 741-1569.

Cool­ers are wel­come.