Destra Garcia and her band will be performing in Belgium, Antilliaanse Feesten Hoogstraten-The Largest Caribbean Festival In The World- August 14/15,2009. The Antilliaanse Feesten festival started in 1983 as a small garden party and became the only festival in the world (besides Colombia's "Festival de Musica Caribe" in Cartagena) which brought together all the different Caribbean music styles. It is ironic that all of his should occur in Belgium, a country located very far away from the "islands" tropical sun, rum, coconut trees and home of the kindest people on the globe! Antillaanse Feesten is  a weekend full of exhilarating music in an unique festival setting.The Caribbean Festival: sparkling, passionate, vibrating, heavenly and earthly, trespassing boundaries, Caribbean and exotic, sweltering and sensual, pure, nocturnal, exuberant, pleasurable, profane and paradisaical delicious... or just the best that is on offer. (http://www.antilliaansefeesten.be/nl/index.html)

Destra 2009 hit song "Hott" that seems to be appreciated globally and which is gaining her more international recognition will be featured on the Caribbean Beat CD 2009 (music of festival). The CD is a compilation made by the festival's promoter Louis Verschueren.All songs on the compilations are performed by artists or bands that performed in Hoogstraten, Belgium on the Caribbean Festival. Louis said "This compilation does not give a complete overview of the Caribbean musical landscape. It does not offer a scientific analysis nor a bare catalogue. "Caribbean Beat" presents a diverse collection of authentic, danceable songs from artists who are famous and well-respected on their own islands and regions, and who best represent their respective musical traditions.The common factor between all the artists appearing on this compilation , is their performance at the "Antilliaanse Feesten", the Caribbean Music Festival in Hoogstraten, Belgium".

Destra first performance in Belgium was ten years ago where she was the lead vocalist of Roy Cape All Stars.

This year Destra will be performing on both days by public demand to perform her hits from 2003-2009 on August 14th and 15th 2009 along side some big names and spectacular shows of Willy Chirino, a salsa star from Miami with Cuban roots and Bamboolaz, a group from Martinique which mixes rock with zouk, Kewdy de los Santos, bachata, dominican republic, Magia Caribena,salso Venezuela, Bamboolaz, zouk-Martinique, Desorden Publico,ska,latin-rock-Venezuela,Havana d'Primera,timba salsa-cuba,Michael Stuat,salsa Puerto Ricao, Milly Quezada, merengue-Dominican Republic, KASSAV-zouk,Guadeloupe, TEGO CALDERRON, reggaeton-Puerto Rico, App'tijt- kaseko-Suriname, Elio reve- sals-Cuba, Aimelia Lias, soukous- Congo/Paris,Youth X-treme-soca-Aruba.

Destra's determination to  take soca international has not stopped and  is becoming more a reality with her recent upcoming tour performance in Belgium,which she is very excited about, to make Trinidad and Tobago proud.

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