A time to Blame Adam

Right after she bit that fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden through the prodding of the mischievous snake and later enticed Adam into taking a bite himself, the world had always been a “blame-it-on-Eve” kind of thing.

And although scores of women organizations the world over have separately pushed forward the ideologies of female liberation, it took only one vibrant group of five women from Guam to tell the world the opposite sex should share the blame.

Don’t get them wrong though. Their group is not the kind you see marching off the streets crying for gender equality, or the type that lobbies at the Congress for equal rights.

The name appears to send strong feminist messages but it’s only in the name.

Blame Adam, which groups five career and musically-gifted women from Guam, is never a failure in sending its audience to frenzy through their intense repertoire whenever they perform.

All five members of the band work in their respective professions during daytime. They group together after office hours and on weekends to do what they do best: perform.

They have performed before a full-packed crowd at the Hyatt Regency Saipan’s Gilligan’s Entertainment Center when they first brought their music and style into the island.

Since then, Marianas Pacific Distributor had been flooded with request from enchanted music enthusiasts, who are mostly locals, to bring Blame Adam back to Saipan.

Marpac promotions manager Regina Andres says Blame Adam could have returned to Saipan earlier had the band’s tight schedule of gigs allowed it. “But they had been booked so we had to wait this long to bring them back in.”

It may be worth the waiting, however. Marpac, which distributes Budweisser and Budlight in the Northern Marianas, has reserved Blame Adam for one of the biggest party of the millennium on Saipan.

Dubbed Dance Party 2000, the two-night dance concert by the sizzling all-female band at the GIG Disco Club is expected to draw huge crowd of party animals from all over the island.

Marpac will also bring Guam-based disc jockeys, Music XTC, to complement Blame Adam’s exquisite performance for the two-night concert party, slated this Friday and Saturday.

According to Ms. Andres, a one-of-a-kind dance competition where winners for each night receives $250 cash highlights the concert-party.

Participants to the contest will not be given a solo performance but will be asked to merely wear a band, which separates them from all the other guests at the GIG Disco Club dance floor. (AR Fajardo)