ON Saturday, April 23 the Sunshine City of Portmore will come alive with soca fever courtesy of Machel Montano and dancehall’s Beenie Man at the LIME Sunshine Carnival.

Joining the energetic crew will be Lovindeer, Fab Five and Red Plastic Bag out of Barbados with more acts yet to be confirmed.

Soca lovers can expect Portmore to be steaming when Machel takes centrestage at the LIME Village. Leading up to the ‘biggie’ on April 23 will be three Saturday night parties scheduled to be held on April 2, 9 and 16. Saturday April 23 will kick off with two simultaneous road marches both culminating at the LIME Village in Portmore.

Independence City and Edgewater Roundabout will be the starting points of the marches, which will kick off at 3:00 pm.

For the past 26 years, the single constant in Machel’s ever-changing, career has been his approach to T&T’s indigenous soca music. Through his various fusions, which include everything from performing with marching bands to collaborating with Grammy-winning reggae artistes, Machel has worked tirelessly to establish soca, calypso’s energetic offshoot, as a viable entity that can impact beyond T&T’s internationally renowned carnival celebrations.

The former child star made history in March 2007 as the first soca artiste to sell out two back-to-back shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and he returned to the Garden on March 28, 2008 for another sold out affair.

Since his emergence on the scene Machel has released some hot soca favourites which includes, Blazin The Trail, Big Truck, Make Love, Rollin (with Patrice Roberts), and his latest single Hard Wuk.

Part proceeds from LIME Sunshine Carnival will be going towards the Gregory Park Resource Centre.