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Karen Vernon, Threater Director - Bliss Center
"We are having this celebration "celebrating Leela" Monday here at the Bliss center celebrating the life of Leela Vernon and the legacy that she left for all of us as Belizeans. We have a lineup of artists, because artists have been calling wanting to perform either here in Belize City at the "celebrating Leela" or in Punta Gorda at the concerts that will be there as well."

"As can say that so far we have Ernestine Carballo, Drums Not Guns, drumming group, the National Kriol Council, Omolewa Osain, the Belize National Dance Company performing. Actually we want it to be a nice lively celebration. Leela was vibrant and full of life and we want to keep that memory alive like that. So yes, most the groups will be performing. Of course some of the bands will be doing their own stuff or other brukdown music as well."

"This is a free concert. We want people to come out and celebrate with us. So it's open to the general public. It's on Monday at 6pm. So if you're an artist and you want to perform, contact us here at the Bliss or if you just want to come to the concert, come on out at 6pm, it should run for 2 hours, but of Couse if other musicians come we will have them on stage as well."

Alex Courtenay, 7News
"If you could talk to us a little bit about Miss Leela's influence, but also how NICH would be planning to her memory alive in terms of her performance and her music?"

Karen Vernon, Threater Director - Bliss Center
"I don't think that will be too difficult, because as you can hear in the background, that her music playing and that's not just a coincidence, that's all the time. You could walk around and you can hear her music playing and I am sure that now it will be even more so. To keep her music alive, we need to instill it in our younger people and we need to teach them who Leela is, who Leela was and what her music means to us."

The concert is free and will be held on Monday.