Rolling Dollar and friends to play at Orchid Le Tamariska Bar

Fatai Rolling Dollar.

Highlife maestro, Pa Fatai Rolling Dollar will be leading other star acts in opening a new vista in entertainment at Lekki/Ajah axis of Lagos soon.

They will unleash a musical explosion on society buffs, glitterati, guests, and lovers on February 14, 2008, which is considered lovers’ day.

The event billed to hold at Orchid Le Tamariska, number one celebrity hang out and event centre in that area is slated to kick off at 7:00pm and will run till late in the night. According to the promoters of the show tagged Te’amo Night (Lovers Night), it is a pot pouri of total entertainment package which will continue to linger in the memory of guests. “It is a night of laughter, good music and comedy. Guests will be specially treated to a total entertainment package,” one of them said.

The gate fee is quite pocket friendly. This valentine show serves as a refreshing precursor for a monthly gig which is bound to change the entertainment landscape of Lekki/Ajah for ever, commencing from the month of March. Fatai Rolling Dollar will be in the house every first Friday of every month, together with other hot music acts, and comedians to thrill the A-list audience to quality entertainment in a serene, cozy and comfortable environment offered by Orchid Le Tamariska.

The management of Orchid Le Tamariska stated that they have discovered that busy executives and upwardly mobile young men and women need a place to unwind, enjoy good food, choice drinks and quality entertainment. “This is top class celebrity rendezvous, where you can enjoy good food, choice drinks and quality entertainment,” our source explained.

Situated on Ameze Osagie Street, Beside Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lekki/Epe Expressway, Orchid Le Tamariska lays claim to beating all its competitors, in all aspects hospitality criteria.

Reality series takes new dimension at Soundcity VJ search

SOUNDCITY, Nigeria’s foremost lifestyle, music and entertainment channel is expanding the frontiers, and consequently seeks additional and probably even more talented channel ambassadors to help propagate its vision of quality, music-powered entertainment and video jockeying. In this vein, the Music TV channel has, in the past few weeks been calling for entries in its now famed Soundcity VJ Search to which over five thousand youngsters have responded. The first stage of the process took place at the Astroturf Grounds in highbrow Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, with trendy, talented young men and women craving careers in TV broadcasting featuring.

For two consecutive days, January 22 and 23, 2008, the mini-stadium grounds provided ample opportunities for the participating youths to express themselves before the six-member audition committee, qualifying sixty people each day. Trusting Soundcity to set standards in this area where it is undoubtedly the leader, high quality facilities could be seen in use throughout the perimeter of the activity venue - acoustics, set-up, personnel, colourful young people and all.

Miss Sileola Obisesan, Senior Brand Manager of the popular Soundcity disclosed that the two-day affair was only a stage in the series of producing Soundcity’s next generation of Video Jockeys. The next stage of screening was to present an even more dramatic scenario with the 120 emerging youngsters being drilled at the Agip Recital Hall of the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos on Saturday, January 26, by the reputable trio of Kelvin Luciano, the debonair chief Executive of QuestionMark; renowned compere, Michele Dede; and the super on-air-personality Jacob Akinyemi Johnson of Silverbird TV. Small wonder the whole exercise attracted the interest of telecoms giants, MTN, who are partnering on the project.

Of this lot, a final sixteen of the prospective would be eligible to proceed into the Soundcity VJ House in two weeks time, evolving in a Reality series where they are expected to undergo the intensive and extensive induction that is the hallmark of a Soundcity Channel Ambassador, all under live-camera. It is from this set of sixteen that the six new TV stars will emerge.

The cherry on the pie would be the 13-week transmission on Soundcity, of every single moment of the selection process right from the auditions to the screening and the final selection of the six newest TV sensations to join our beloved Rotimi Salu (S DOT), Denrele Edun and charming Yeancah Dosunmu, already established Soundcity Channel Ambassadors.

Miss Obisesan emphasised that Soundcity is the inspiring cable and satellite music and lifestyle television channel with the mandate of elevating values, engendering warmth and goodness, especially with the provision of quality television content.

“The Soundcity VJ Search is just one more special way of delivering on our promises made last year to our viewers and other stakeholders, and it would be nice for you to watch out for the Soundcity Music Video Awards, which would be the first music video awards in Nigeria to recognise the efforts of artistes and video producers and directors whose strengths and abilities have been able to put Nigerian music videos on a global pedestal, and you bet no-one else is more qualified to stage this than Soundcity”, she added.