Soul Fest Day two

I arrived a little later than I would have liked, but I caught the last half hour of the second performing artist today, Papi Jay. He has a strong voice, sings songs in both English and French, and often engaged the audience by both voice, and by moving off the stage and into the lounging area where the tables, chairs and attendees were seated.

I found a bench a little further east on Ste-Catherine street and sat for 25 minutes as there is an hour gap between shows so as to take down the music equipment of the finished performer, and to set up and sound check the next one.

The next one was Naïka Champaïgne. She has a powerful voice and used it quite a few times to sing out very long extended notes. During this performance I was surrounded by women, the one to my right dancing in such a way that her left arm was very close to battering me in the head. I ended up leaving this show after about 35 minutes of the hour long set as I didn't want to be next to this excited dancing person and I had had enough.