HEADLINER Myrna Hague thrilled the capacity-size crowd with an enticing performance at the Courtleigh Auditorium on Saturday night.

The event was the fifth staging of Simply Myrna.

“It’s been an exciting five years for me– at times challenging, at times transformational, at times building a new me,” Myrna Hague told the Jamaica Observer.

Also on the concert bill were veteran Jamaican balladeers Dobby Dobson, AJ Brown, Carifolk Singers and noted pianist Marjorie Whylie.

Hague said for the next year’s show she is contemplating coming with something new.

“Y’know, you would like to keep it fresh, you don’t want to keep doing the same thing over and over again,” she said.

Gracefully, the hostess opened her first of many appearances and charmed her audience with The Way We Were followed by I Wanna Kiss You All Over, Heatwave, and Only Love Set You Free.

Later she was joined by Whylie on Save The Day, Sunlight Seduce Midnight and Let’s Fall In Love.

Then it was time for smoothed-voice crooner Dobby Dobson, who delighted the fans with Wonderful World, Sweet Dreams, the Alton and Eddie love anthem Muriel, and of course his signature tune Loving Pauper.

But it was not over for Dobson who performed a fabulous duet with Hague of You Raise Me Up. Accompanied by famed guitarist Rupert Bent, she completed that set with If I Ruled The World.

The concert resumed after a brief intermission with the Carifolk Singers performing Chouconne, Wheel And Tun Mi, and Dip And Fall Back.

The hostess returned with a tribute to the late John Holt on Only A Smile as well as Sediotida (accompanied by Whylie) and Moody’s Mood For Love, which provided the intro to A J Brown, who performed it in tandem with Hague.

Taking full charge of the stage, A J rocked the auditorium with Love People, Father Friend, When You Love, Now That You Found Love and Time To Say Goodbye.

The curtain came down the grand finale rendition of Diamonds On The Sole of Her Shoe.

— Basil Walters