From Left Papa San, Carlene Davis and Junior Tucker,
who will be some of the performers on the gospel train
THIS YEAR the gospel train will be breaking through new frontiers. According to Glory Music's Tommy Cowan, 'Gospel Train : Breakthrough 2000' will be winding through London, England, July 20 to 22, as well as southern U.S. cities Miami-Tampa-Atlanta, August 18 to 20, for the first time this year.
"It was always our intention to have a tour which extended outside Jamaica. We went to England earlier this year and had a press briefing with Papa San, during which he did a cameo performance which got the press there very excited," Cowan explained.
Tickets for the London shows are selling extremely well, even though not all the acts who perform on the series here will be able to make it.
This year's second annual gospel train tour will be jointly staged by Glory Music and Mac D's and will feature Papa San, Junior Tucker, Carlene Davis, Glacia Robinson, the Grace Thrillers, Winsome Benjamin, Jody McCalla, David Keane and the Rev. Errol Hall. Robinson and the Grace Thrillers will not be on all the shows.
Cowan said a number of foreign artistes will be travelling with the train this year, including the Gospo Centric recording act, Rev. Jackie McCullough and Trinidad and Tobago's Nicole Ballysingh.
The gospel train starts its local leg on Saturday, July 29 and up until August 12 will cover the parishes of Portland, Westmoreland, Manchester, Clarendon, Kingston, St. Ann and Trelawny.
"The purpose of the train is to uplift Jamaica, spiritually," Cowan said.
Radio Jamaica Group will be supporting the event this year as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.
