2011 Six Flags Caribbean Summer Concert Series | Beres Hammond, Ky-Mani Marley, Wayne Wonder & Anthony B
On August 13, 2011, the Caribbean Summer Concert Series returned to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, bringing a major reggae lineup to the theme park during the height of the summer season.
Presented by TriniFly Promotions, the official promotion billed Beres Hammond, Ky-Mani Marley, Wayne Wonder and Anthony B as the headline artists.
Contemporary coverage later reported that Ky-Mani Marley was unable to appear because of a knee injury, while Beres Hammond, Wayne Wonder and Anthony B performed at the event.
For Julianspromos, the concert came just over a month after TEMPO Turns 6 at Six Flags Great Adventure on July 9, 2011, the platform’s first official media event. Returning to the park so quickly provided another opportunity to build experience documenting major Caribbean entertainment outside New York City.
Official promotional flyer for the August 13, 2011 Six Flags Caribbean Summer Concert Series, advertising Beres Hammond, Ky-Mani Marley, Wayne Wonder and Anthony B.
Back at Six Flags
The Caribbean Summer Concert Series combined a day at Six Flags with an outdoor concert featuring established names in Jamaican reggae and dancehall.
The official concert flyer placed Beres Hammond at the center of the advertised bill alongside Ky-Mani Marley, Wayne Wonder and Anthony B.
Although Ky-Mani was ultimately unable to appear, the remaining three advertised headliners performed, giving the New Jersey audience a lineup representing several generations and styles of Jamaican music.
Julianspromos returned to Six Flags with Sheniele “Vivaa” Dodson handling on-camera media coverage, while additional surviving footage preserves performances from the event.
Beres Hammond at Six Flags
Beres Hammond was one of the biggest names associated with the concert.
By 2011, the Jamaican singer had already built a career spanning several decades and had become one of reggae and lovers rock’s most recognizable voices.
His catalog had made him a major draw throughout the Caribbean diaspora, particularly among audiences who grew up with reggae’s romantic and soulful side.
The surviving Julianspromos footage captures Beres performing at Six Flags during the August 2011 concert.
Beres Hammond performs live during the Caribbean Summer Concert Series at Six Flags Great Adventure on August 13, 2011.
Wayne Wonder & Anthony B
The concert also featured Wayne Wonder and Anthony B, two artists representing different sides of Jamaican music.
Wayne Wonder had already achieved international crossover success while maintaining strong ties to reggae and dancehall.
Anthony B brought a more roots-conscious approach, becoming known for music grounded in reggae’s social and cultural traditions.
Together with Beres Hammond, their performances gave the concert a broader musical range than a single-style reggae show.
Sheniele “Vivaa” Dodson interviews Wayne Wonder at the Six Flags Caribbean Summer Concert Series at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, on August 13, 2011.
Young Devyn on the Six Flags Stage
The Julianspromos archive also preserves footage of Young Devyn performing live at Six Flags that day.
Although Young Devyn was not one of the four artists prominently advertised on the official concert flyer, her surviving performance adds another piece to the record of what happened on stage during the event.
At just nine years old, she was already developing a presence within New York’s Caribbean music community.
Earlier in 2011, Young Devyn had become the first artist ever interviewed by Julianspromos, making her Six Flags performance another important piece of the platform’s earliest media history.
Young Devyn performs at Six Flags Great Adventure during the Caribbean Summer Concert Series on August 13, 2011.
Vivaa Continues Julianspromos’ Early Media Story
Sheniele “Vivaa” Dodson was at Six Flags handling on-camera media coverage for Julianspromos.
Her surviving segment gives viewers a look at the atmosphere surrounding the concert while also documenting how quickly the on-camera side of Julianspromos was developing during 2011.
Only weeks earlier, Vivaa had been part of Julianspromos’ coverage of TEMPO Turns 6, the platform’s first official media event.
By August, Julianspromos was already returning to major Caribbean events and gaining more practical experience filming in live entertainment environments.
Sheniele “Vivaa” Dodson covers the 2011 Caribbean Summer Concert Series at Six Flags Great Adventure for Julianspromos.
A Growing 2011 Archive
The Six Flags concert came during an important transition year for Julianspromos.
The platform had started primarily through online Caribbean music promotion, but 2011 increasingly brought the brand into artist interviews, live performances and on-location event coverage.
Each assignment presented a new opportunity to learn how to work around artists, promoters, crowds and large-scale Caribbean events.
Returning to Six Flags only a month after TEMPO Turns 6 also showed how quickly those opportunities were beginning to build.
The August concert expanded the archive beyond Soca-focused material and preserved a night centered largely around reggae and Jamaican music, adding another dimension to the developing Julianspromos media collection.
From the Julianspromos Archives
More than fifteen years later, the surviving footage captures an early moment in Julianspromos’ Caribbean entertainment archive.
The original promotion advertised Beres Hammond, Ky-Mani Marley, Wayne Wonder and Anthony B. With Ky-Mani unable to appear, the concert ultimately featured performances from Beres Hammond, Wayne Wonder and Anthony B, while Julianspromos’ surviving footage also preserves Young Devyn on stage and Vivaa’s on-camera coverage of the event.
For Julianspromos, the August 13 concert came only weeks after TEMPO Turns 6 and provided another opportunity to gain practical experience documenting a major Caribbean event.
The 2011 Six Flags Caribbean Summer Concert Series remains another early piece of an archive that would eventually extend far beyond New York and New Jersey.
