From Fugees-Online.

WEST PALM BEACH — You know that old jam by Indeep, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life?

It's pretty certain that the folks in the crowd at the inaugural Soulfull Saturday event at the Meyer Amphitheatre, as well as the show's organizers, were thinking the same thing.

And that's because a long, long lull between acts and an eventual set switch caused by the as-yet-unexplained delay by soul diva Lauryn Hill was more than adequately filled by the old-school jams and wit of DJ Irie, the official DJ of the NBA champion Miami Heat and the unofficial savior of the night.

Irie, who had been laying down the tracks and keeping the party moving since 2 p.m., seamlessly bridged the gap between India.Arie's uplifting set and the appearance by Philadelphia's The Roots. Spinning everything from EU's Da Butt to an entire New Edition/Bell Biv DeVoe retrospective, the DJ turned what could have been hideous dead space and an uncomfortable moment into a joyful party.

Hill, who was supposed to have come on after India.Arie and before The Roots, eventually started around 9:45 p.m. after city officials agreed to extend the concert past the agreed 11 p.m. curfew. The Rev. Al Green was expected to follow with a shortened set.

And it all started out so well — right at 2 p.m. on the dot, DJ Irie began his first set, followed by the jazzy vibe of Miami's Against The Girl. D.C.'s Politicks, a collective of young men with sort of a Jamiroquai, Maroon 5-ish thing going for them, were next. Both bands were strong and illustrated the many moods of soul.

If Against The Girl was jazzy soul and Politicks was hip-hop soul, India.Arie was... well they call it "neo-soul," this heady swirl of Afrocentric grooves, coffeehouse spoken word cool and the insistent edge of bass and guitars. But there are very few words for what India.Arie does, other than come onto a stage seemingly without ego or pretense, spread her wings and summon a spiritually rich funk. And then she invites the crowd along for the party.

And I do mean wings — the now-bald singer was sporting a pair of butterfly wings, which fit nicely with her guitar strap. She did some new songs, including the witty, instructive I Am Not My Hair, some old songs, like her breakthrough hit Video, the sexy and sweet The Truth and Brown Skin, and a few other people's songs, including Bob Marley's Redemption Song.

She also told some great stories, including how she went swimming in the Atlantic before the show and was afraid to let the seaweed touch her.

"I am not earthy," she said, refuting the image that her head wraps and African-fabric skirts give. "I'm a humanitarian."

Again from Fugees-online.


SEEN AND HEARD AT SOULFEST SATURDAY AND ELSEWHERE . . .

. . . R&B star Lauryn Hill, one of the headliners at Saturday's music festival in downtown WPB, insisted on renting 20 rooms at the Four Seasons for her family (she's married to Rohan Marley, a former University of Miami football star and son of reggae king Bob Marley) and extensive entourage — forget that she lives in North Miami Beach. . . . His mama, Ilene Silber, ran WPB Mayor Lois Frankel's election campaign four years ago, but Brian Silber, one of the organizers of the festival, passed on getting Frankel involved when the city refused to permit the event for an attendance of 10,000 and limited it to a less lucrative 8,500 instead. . . . What organizers did get from the city, however, was to let the show run past 11 p.m. Diva Hill showed up 2 1/2 hours late for her set, throwing the entire festival off schedule. . . .

Thanks to Underceige3000 from runboard.

i went to the show yesterday and i really had a good time...when i arrived inde.arie was on. very peaceful and alot of positive vibes. the dj said lauryn is was next after indie. the crowd started moving towards the front, i was right up front directly in fron of her chair. it took 45mins for the band to set up, the dj was keeping the audience occupied while the band was gettin the sound right...after bout 30mins after they set up, we got word that lauryn wasnt here yet so they swap and put the roots on...they rocked of course and brought out talib kwali( after the roots talib was just walkin around in the crowd and i got a chance to meet him!). as soon as the roots got off the stage lauryn band cam back out. they just started grooving moving real fast tryin to set up as they went along, real jazz like. as they jam they was gettin the sound right to, then ms hill came out....she started wit final hour, a real jazzy funk beat which was hot, the crowd was loving it. then she went into zion which also had a jazzy feeling, and proceded wit iron lion zion. she also did zimbawe which was funky raggae and another bob marley song(cant thinnk of the name). before she started to do doo wop, she said " they say i have to get off stage, but ima continue." her band was tite, they all seem like rebels and lauryn there leader and they palyed without sound for about thirty seconds.She looked at the crowd wit a amile and said" they aint goin run me off, im on stage and ima give yall a show" they crowd was screaming lauryn as they kept messin wit her sound and cut off her spot light she came towards the front of the crowd dancing not giving a f!@K. she still was rhyming with out a mic. after the doowop, she called for the sound man and he ran and she was talkin to him for a lil bit while the crowd kept screeming for her to continur, then she gave her upright bass player the que to go to the next song. she closed out wit how many mics ...seem like she was just getting warmed up wanting to give us more but i guess they told her that was hit even tho her band members was tellin her she should still go. it seem like her upright bass player was the band director, she was talkin to him and i guess he was like lets keep goin and she pointed at the sound guy and shook her head. as she walked off stage she came back towards the front of each side and greeted people waving and pointing smiling all bright. she was dope and i really enjoyed my self. I heard some people behind me sayin" f!@k al green we came to see u lauryn" it was uncalled for but i can feel there pain cuz the majority of the crowd was there to see her. AL green came out and closed the show...alot of the crowd left but we kept on partying until the end of the show. i have some pics and will load them in the gallery...i took them with my phone so the quality not all that good.

lol, bah - i posted the review that mitchrich found and posted in the thread that's in 'news' (thanks btw) - but he posted it himself below.

So ignore/delete this.

from: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content...full_peace.html

"Soulfull": Peace, Love, Soul and Drama!


I think that the inaugural Soulfull Saturday Festival proved three very important things:
- There are local soul and R&B fans who will come downtown and support a festival like this;
- That music, as Madonna said, makes the people come together;
- That just because West Palm is still establishing itself as an entertainment center doesn't mean the powers-that-be won't cut off a sistah off when she runs over time, even when that sistah is a big ol' star. And that's a good thing.

The sistah in question, of course, in Miss Lauryn Hill, who, as you probably know by now, completely missed her scheduled start time between india.arie and The Roots, and wound up performing a very short set right before luminous headliner Al Green. There is still no official word as to what the delay was - all I know is that up until that point, the show had been running shockingly on time, and that Hill's band was all set up and ready to go.

Where they went, unfortunately, was backstage, because Hill didn't go on. The City of West Palm Beach agreed to extend the show past the 11 p.m. curfew so that she and Green could both perform. By the time she did hit the stage, after The Roots lifted the crowd on a wave of jazz-inflected hip-hop, I think the overwhelming attitude in the audience seemed to be "OK, you're here. Show us something,"

She should have been amazing. I say this as a huge Lauryn Hill fan, who in the '90s internalized her music and her emotionally pourous voice, her confessional, proud lyrics, her natural hair and the beautiful soul that seemed to be flashing through her large, sad eyes. She, Erykah Badu, and india.arie, were the Holy Union of Sistahs to me, who told the young girls and the world that they were enough - their strength, broad noses, full lips and whatever their hair was doing at the time. My 'fro and I thank them.

But in the end last night, she was just OK. Maybe I feel that way because I'd been sitting around watching the very patient crowd hang around through the old school party that DJ Irie threw down while Hill's band's instruments were taken down and The Roots' were set up. But Hill just came on and started singing, with nary an explanation as to what had happened. Her voice sounded OK - the best song was the lovely "To Zion," about her son. And the crowd seemed with her - to a point. But there was an expectation of something wonderful to justify the wait. And that did not happen in her set.

Well, that's not true. Something sort of wonderful, in a dramatic sense, happened. The band swung up the gorgeous horns for "That Thing," my favorite Lauryn Hill song. And it's funny, because as she began to sing, her voice was the strongest it had been all night. But as she started the first verse, there was a...sudden interuption of sound system. Nobody would officially confirm what happened, or who gave the order to cut the system, but it's assumed that she'd been given a certain time limit, and when she exceeded it, it was over.

But she kept singing - someone in the front row said they believe Hill didn't initially realize that the sound was cut. I don't believe that. Not long before that point, she'd told the crowd that "they're gonna cut me off," and that to blame whoever was doing the cutting, not her. I don't think that's a fair statement. She was late, for whatever reason, and the City was keeping the party going extra-late because of it. If they had to cut her, they did. And as much as I would have loved to have heard "That Thing," that thing they did was the right thing.

First of all, that cleared the way for Al Green (more on him in the next post). Second, it showed that the city and the promoters are serious. They can get first-rate talent. And they're gonna put on a first-rate show, respectful of the fans and the residents, no matter what. Outstanding.

Do it again.

Good to see she did her thing, but why oh why, was she late ? :angry:

Oh my God, that's my favourite Bob song - I would love to her L perform it!

Hey stop complaining u should be glad she's doin summin 2 be late 4:P

good good!!! Can't wait to see the video!

They were posted in the media section yesterday :P

LOL I see them!!.. they are great... good to see her again!

Are there any pictures?

I haven't seen the videos yet. So, what was she wearing ? ( just curious).

Got these from the youtube site.
I kinda like the outfit !

What did you type in youtube to get these photos?

another review from: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifes...tures-headlines

Green, Roots, Arie surmount soul fest's rocky Hill

By Fayola Shakes
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted July 3 2006

Only Al Green could take a spoonful of soul and make the medicine go down.

After singer Lauryn Hill's distasteful, diva-like antics at West Palm Beach's Soul-Full Saturday festival delayed his performance by two hours, Green relieved the tension with a smile and a winning line as he began his shortened set at 11:29 p.m.

"Why did y'all take so long?" he joked. "I've been ready since 8 o'clock! I want to get to it!"

So did organizers, who cut the audio and killed the lights to get Hill offstage, and the City of West Palm Beach, which extended its 11 p.m. event curfew so Green could go on.

The festival began promptly at 2 p.m. with Miami's DJ Irie on the turntables and short sets by homegrown talents Against the Girl and Politicks. India.Arie followed at 5:15 p.m. sporting butterfly wings, a bald head and flowing white dress. Opening with I Am Not My Hair, Arie prayed her "words and music would have the power to heal." Her lack of pretension and joy on stage were apparent as she twirled, laughed and sang elatedly.

But after two hours of waiting for Hill, the festive mood at Meyer Amphitheater shifted to impatience. Hill's eight-piece band was onstage, but the elusive singer was nowhere to be found. The Philadelphia-based Roots wound up performing next, rocking through a top-notch set of hip-hop, funk and jazz, with nods to old-school artists and a surprise performance by rapper Talib Kweli.

Hill finally went on at 9:42 p.m., nearly three hours late, and her underwhelming, confusing set was decidedly not worth the wait. Her over-the-top rearrangements of Lost Ones and To Zion made the songs nearly unrecognizable; compounding her obvious lack of preparation was her refusal to leave the stage after the time limit was up. "They're telling me I'm out of time but I'm going to stay until they shut me down," she said.

Which they did. Ten minutes and two songs later, singing to an audience that could barely see or hear her (except the faithful few up front), Hill reluctantly exited, amid boos and chants of "We want Al Green!"

Enter Green, whose classy brand of soul was hot enough to evaporate memories of Hill's attitude. Backed by a swinging band, Green began with 2003's I Can't Stop and worked his way back through the '80s and '70s, serving up classics that sounded surprisingly fresh.

Inhabiting that space between the sensual and the spiritual as only he can, Green took the crowd to church with Amazing Grace ("Well, it's almost Sunday," he said), and back to the bedroom on Simply Beautiful.

"Don't act like you don't know me," he said. "I've been in your car, your house, your truck, your den..."

"...And your bedroom," the crowd responded.



Fayola Shakes can be reached at fashakes@sun-sentinel.com.

It's just bits from the videos.

Then what do I type in to see te videos? lol!

check the media section, but if you're too lazy :P :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXaJnBfaLA...h=lauryn%20hill


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or3tVB3JnWU...h=lauryn%20hill