There used to be a time when you could not get a top currently popular act to open a major concert or perform early in the running order.  The opening segment of a major ‘live’ show production was reserved for the not so popular or the new and up and coming acts.  Now, over the years, that phenomenon has began to change and more and more one finds that the top billed and more popular acts are now fighting among themselves to work early in the order.

     A number of factors have contributed to this new development, one being the fact that most of the top acts are now being billed on more than one major event slated for the same date in several parishes.  Another is that one popular act might see it advantageous to work before another in order to upstage his/her rival.

     Major acts that usually garner top billing on these events and were usually expected to anchor the respective event by appearing close to the climaxing of the event are now focusing on working as early as possible.  Acts such as, Beenie Man, Bounty Killa, Turbulence and others are now stipulating that they desire not to be the closing acts on these events which would often see them taking the stage at 7:00, 8:00 and even 10:00 a.m. the following morning.