Saturday at Tradewinds
Tradewinds Night Club, 5859 Allentown Way, Camp Springs, MD 20748

Val "Tina Turner", Stacey, Connie (still celebrating her birthday with another cake - it was really delicious), Shawn, Boo, Sanisse, and Cindy were there.

Junior worked the sound.

Familiar Faces
First Set
James sang backup.
Donnell did a birthday shout out to Darlene.
1) They started to perform the music to Faith Evans' Again / Instrumental (guitar riffs - NORE's I'm a G?) / Halima-led Faith Evans' Again / Percussion solo - the crowd shouted, "Wind me up, Smoke"
2) Mike-led Toto's Georgy Porgy - intro / Bobby Valentino's Slow Down
3) Donnell-led "___ Is in the House"
4) Halima-led Beyonce's Check on It
5) Donnell-led 50 Cent's In Da Club (tease)
6) Donnell-led "Hey ay, Ho oh"
7) Donnell-led "Do it for the ladies/fellas, Oh my God!" - Halima held her mic to fans
8) Halima-led Faith Evans' Mesmerized - the PA went out and they fixed it, Funky Stuff guitar riffs
9) Donnell-led NORE's I'm a G / Donnell chanted, "___ Is up in here"
Sean (Kal'el) Gross was there.
10) Mike-led Prince's Take Me With You
11) Alternating Donnell-led Hold the Note / Donnell & Halima-led Sade's No Ordinary Love (tease) - altered lyrics
12) Mike-led Eric Benet's I Wanna Be Loved

I kidded Sean that he forgot he was done subbing. I didn't know that he would be hired permanently as an additional singer between this show and rehearsal.

Los, Arielle, Nece (Simone and JoJo's sister), JoJo, Mike Smith, Slick Rick, and Tiffany F. were there.

Second Set
1) Sean-led Jamie Foxx's unpredictable - Sean sat in just for this, there was a nice crank
2) Donnell & Halima-led Lil Kim's Lighters Up - it went dark
3) Donnell-led Vinnie D's $55 Motel (tease)
4) Donnell-led Rare Essence's Overnight Scenario (tease)
5) Mike-led Lisa Stansfield's All Around the World (tease)
6) Alternating Mike & Donnell-led Rare Essence's Lock It / Mike-led Sam Cooke's Chain Gang (tease)
7) Donnell-led "Unh, unh unh"
8) Halima-led Mariah Carey's It's Like That - interrupted by a fight that broke out between some girls, Halima said, "Hey ladies" repeatedly, Donnell said, "Take their picture. They might have a long stripe, a learner's permit. I don't know why ladies fight."
Simone was there.
9) Donnell-led "25, 25, 25" / Rare Essence's Work the Walls - the house lights came on, Donnell shouted, "Yes!" repeatedly
10) Donnell & Halima-led It Is What It Is - Donnell chanted, "They don't want to see me."
11) Halima-led Mary Blige's Be Without You - Donnell said, "Call us back, you know you need us, Waiting to exhale. You know you got to sing this to your man, you f*cked up.", Halima made faces, Donnell playfully pulled her hair
12) Stomp played samples
13) Donnell acapella Tina Turner?s (Credence Clearwater Revival?s) Proud Mary (tease)
Stomp said, "Tonight, Charlie was 0 for 40."
Donnell said, "Omar, can you take the chastity belt off? Can you take off the seat belt?"