De­spite ad­ver­tis­ing his 40-year an­niver­sary con­cert (One Show - The Meet­ing Place) on Car­ni­val Fri­day as a "one show on­ly" event, so­ca mega-star Machel Mon­tano has hint­ed that fans may be treat­ed to "a few show-lets" and "show-ups" dur­ing the 2023 Car­ni­val sea­son. 

Mon­tano was speak­ing to CNC3's De Par­ty Start co-host Gyasi Mer­rique fol­low­ing a guest ap­pear­ance along­side so­ca di­vas De­stra Gar­cia and Patrice Roberts at St Mary's Col­lege's all in­clu­sive par­ty 'Fet­ing with the Saints - Jour­ney With­in' on Sat­ur­day night. 

Mon­tano al­so shared the rea­son­ing be­hind scrap­ping his pop­u­lar Machel Mon­day con­cept af­ter ten years, in favour of this new Car­ni­val Fri­day en­gage­ment. Car­ni­val Fri­day, tra­di­tion­al­ly known as Fan­tas­tic Fri­day co­in­cides with the pop­u­lar So­ca Monarch fi­nal that has now been can­celled for 2023. 

On Thurs­day Gar­cia and Mon­tano re­leased their 2023 col­lab­o­ra­tion en­ti­tled, Shake The Place, which marks the 20th an­niver­sary of their "It's Car­ni­val" hit. The duo, who re­ferred to them­selves as each oth­er's "so­ca hus­band and so­ca wife" re­vealed that they con­coct­ed plans to guest ap­pear at the pop­u­lar all-in­clu­sive. Roberts was sub­se­quent­ly in­clud­ed to ac­com­pa­ny Machel in a ren­di­tion of their 2006 duet - Band of The Year.