In 8 months of touring in support of the Watina album, Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective have played to an estimated three hundred thousand people in Europe and North America. But now, they've come home. Riding the WOMEX wave, Watina is the most celebrated world music album of the year. It's made top ten lists from Los Angeles to Luxemburg - and it's generated more buzz than an Africanized bee colony. But though they're being celebrated across the globe, Andy Palacio and his producer Ivan Duran haven't forgotten about home. And that's why tomorrow's free concert in the Brodies Northern Highway parking lot will be a home coming to remember.
Andy Palacio, Performer
"I've always wanted to do something out doors to see a mass, a sea of Belizean people moving to Watina and just sending that energy back to us. I really really want to feel that tomorrow."
Ivan Duran, Producer
"Coming back home now with this free concert, and its so important that its free because I think it goes in the spirit of everything we've been doing in the last year which is taking our music to the world."
Andy Palacio,
"Belize deserves the same kind of entertainment that we've been giving our international audiences and for us it will truly special if they can come out and share what I consider to be their very very special moment with us members of the collective."
Ivan Duran,
"We are really hoping that people come out tomorrow, at least just to see, even if you don't know the album or you don't know much about Garifuna music or even know much about the collective and Andy, at least come out and see what the rest of the world has been seeing from Belize this year and I am sure it will be a great concert."
Andy Palacio,
"I think we've already gone beyond 2,000 in the audience tomorrow and energy feeds off energy so I think we'll have a tropical storm in the parking lot tomorrow."
The concert starts at 6 o'clock tomorrow and again it is free.
