Written By Regula Rebel
Inside Ghana Entertainment
Shortened as Kasaval, the Kasoa Street Carnival which had its successful maiden staging last year [2017], off it's 2018 edition ran to a relatively bigger success last Friday --- this year's edition shot up into a height of bright hopes and blue prospects for the grey underground artistes living within the Kasoa locality and the entire Central Region.
As an annual whose date is propitiously set to coincide with each year's actual day of the Ramadan fast break, Kasaval tends to serve its audience with a multi treat of religious tolerance, feast, entertainment, unity, community love, regional respect and establishes a creative youth connect between the talented youth in Kasoa and those from the Central Region back towns.
Supremo Jackson --- the CEO, founder and copyright holder of Kasaval on a collective executive move with the Kasaval festive auspices officials, the chief of Kasao and Ako Nana were able to secure sponsorship support from Zylofon Media to make this year's Kasaval the edition that brought to the annual's gate a strong corporate backing.
It is recorded that the first edition last year was single-handedly funded by Supremo Jackson with home media sponsorship ran on his radio station called Supreme Africa Radio.
Kasaval 2018 wasn't played by young home artistes only, it saw veteran performances by Jupitar, Episode, Rudebwoy Rankin,Tinny and a few other established artistes. The event was also graced by young artistes from Accra and other parts of the Central Region.
Below is a shortlist of performers extracted from the over 40 underground artistes that stepped the stage.
J Formulla
Shana
StarQuinn
Star Face
Kurtis Yardie
Goody
Gariba
GazyBwoy
Jefri King
Don Milla
Jakhal
Piper Soldja
Original P1
Laylo
Shocker Brain
Papa Kusie
Biso
Tunchi
Magnet
Hyro
Bobby Brown
Here is an on-spot interview shot of Supremo Jackson giving his remarks of the event. "It's a great joy seeing Kasaval making big waves as the next big annual event in line with Cape Coast's PanaFest and Winneba's Aboakyir festival, --- we aim to make each subsequent edition relatively bigger than the previous to validate Kasaval's yearly growth so it keeps ranking high with the above mentioned Central Region annuals." Supremo assured.Ras General was the home MC of the night. DJs Wan Eye and Can Coke were the home DJs that played for the artistes.
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Published 17th June, 2018.
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