The St. Kitts Music Festival is a festival of popular music

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 held annually in June on the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts. The Festival was originally called the Shak Shak Festival, and was first held in 1996. The first Festival featured Arrow

Arrow (musician)

Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE was a calypso and soca musician who performed under the stage name Arrow, and is regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat.-Early years:...

, Nigel Lewis, Roy Cape Band, Krosfyah

Krosfyah

Krosfyah is a Soca band from the Caribbean island of Barbados.They are best known for their hits "Road Jam", "Pump Me Up", and "Sak Passe". Formed in 1989 by Edwin Yearwood, Krosfyah is one of the most known and successful Soca bands of the Caribbean....

, Nu Vybes and the Small Axe Band, as well as the Su Wen-Ching Chinese Ensemble.

2007 Line up

Thursday 21 June 2007 (Soca/Calypso Night)

• Alison Hinds
  Alison Hinds
  Alison Hinds is a Bajan female soca artist based in the Caribbean island of Barbados. She is one of the most popular soca singers in the world and has been given the nickname the "Queen of Soca".-Biography:...
  
  
• Machel Montano
  Machel Montano
  Machel Montano is a soca singer, record producer and songwriter based in the Trinidad and Tobago....
  
  
• Crazy and The Lejah Band
• Small Axe Band
• Better Band
• King Konris and Queen Anastasia
• Royaltiez Band

• Highlights - St. Kitts Music Festival, Thursdat Night

Friday 22 June 2007 (Reggae/Dancehall Night)

• Pan Tribute to the Boots (The man that introduced Steel Pan to St. Kitts)
• Pluto Shervington
• Tessanne Chin
• Richie Stephens
• Lady Saw
  Lady Saw
  Lady Saw is a Jamaican reggae singer, known as the queen of dancehall.-Biography:...
  
  
• Steel Pulse
• Sean Paul
  Sean Paul
  Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques , who performs under stage name Sean Paul, is a Jamaican pop rap and reggae singer.-1973–1996: Early life:...
  
  

• Highlights - St. Kitts Music Festival, Friday Night

Saturday 23 June 2007 (R&B/Hip hop and Soul)

• Jazzique

2008 Line up

The 2008 St. Kitts Music Festival will take place at Warner Park on the island of St. Kitts from June 26 to 28, 2008. All concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. Admission is EC $135 or US $50 per night.

Thursday, June 26

• Kassav
• Calypso Rose
• Shadow
• El. A. Kru Featuring Tizzy
• Roy Cape All Stars
• Shurwayne Winchester
• The Grandmasters Band
• Nu Vybes Band International

Friday, June 27

• Billy Ocean
• Macka Diamond
• Pluto Shervington
• Ernie Smith
• Boris Gardner
• Pressure
• Busy Signal
• Mykal Somer
• Kasanova Band

Saturday, June 28

• John Legend
• Ja Rule
• Mario
• Russell Thompkins, Jr. and the New Stylistics
• Kenrick Georges and the Bits & Pieces
• Paul Peress
  Paul Peress
  Paul Peress is an American drummer, composer and producer, based in New York City.-Background:Paul Peress grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, and also lived in Kansas City, Missouri for his last 2 years of high school.He has a B.A...
  
   All Stars
• Brenda Russell
• Phil Perry
• Tom Scott
• Tah Mac
• Maxi Priest
  Maxi Priest
  Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
  
  
• Ne-Yo
  Ne-Yo
  Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr. , better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. Beginning his career as a songwriter, Ne-Yo penned the hit "Let Me Love You" for singer Mario...
  
  
• Michael Bolton
  Michael Bolton
  Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...
  
  
• Big Boi
  Big Boi
  Antwan André Patton , better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus, he and André...