North Side’s District Day in Pirates Week is promising a return to the good old fays in North Side Day on Friday, 17 November, from 11am to 2am.
Committee Chairman Mel McCoy said the event will feature North Side’s famous cuisine, arts and crafts, live entertainment at lunchtime, and Caribbean music from 9pm to 2am.
Mr. McCoy |
Traditional Cayman food is available from 11am onwards at the usual heritage site in the Kaibo area. North Side cuisine will also be on sale the same day at lunchtime in George Town on Cardinall Avenue between 11am and 1pm with the North Side Kitchen Band providing live music in town and again in North Side at 3pm for the Governor’s visit.
Said Mr. McCoy: ‘The intention is to create a good old days’ flavour.’
At the North Side site, steelband music will be on stage from 1pm, native crafts and heritage presentations will also be on display, and Mrs. Rankine’s heavy cake will be on sale all day. In the afternoon, patrons will be able to take in the Cayman tradition of a pig being roasted on a spit. Part of the Cayman tradition will be an area of ground with cassava and yam being grown. Visitors will also be able to take in the Old Cayman Shop display.
Admission is free until 3pm, after which it will be $7 adults, $5 children.
Bar service begins at 4pm, and visitors to the island, with ID, will receive a complimentary rum punch whenever they arrive.
Mr. McCoy said the committee’s approach at North Side is to present the Cayman culture in all its aspects including local music from JR Douglas and from Coco Red. The visiting Trinidad soca group, Kes The Band, will also entertain from 9pm onwards. For information call 927-9596
The next meeting of the North Side Pirates Week committee is at 8pm Monday at the North Side civic centre.
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