Krista Henry, Staff Reporter

The Dream team has gone viral using the now popular Clifton Brown to promote the upcoming Dream Weekend.

The video surfaced on social networking sites Facebook.com and Twitter, as well as Youtube.com on Tuesday, showing Brown endorsing the Dream Weekend. Brown shot to fame locally and internationally after a TVJ news clip of him in Mavis Bank, St Andrew, was remixed by DJ Powa. The humorous remix was featured on overseas news network CBS.

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In the Dream Weekend video the popular Geico advertisement is used as an opener as the Geico man asks, 'Can the Dream Bus cross the water?' Brown responds, "Dream Weekend bus can swim through di wata, Dream Weekend people I know dem can hangle di riva, dem can hangle di wata, cause Dream Weekend bus can swim."

Dream team member Kamal Bankay told The STAR that he made the trek to Mavis Bank on Friday to find Brown. He said, "We were the first to cross the river and found Clifton Brown. Every year we do some form of social parody to promote Dream Weekend and when I saw the video of Clifton I saw the perfect opportunity."

He continued, "So we went to Mavis Bank and asked everybody for him, cause after the TVJ broadcast he was well known. Clifton Brown was a very good natured person and had no problem doing it."

According to Bankay, the response to the video has been doing good so far, with over 200 views within a few hours of being posted. "People have been putting it up on Facebook and forwarding it to people and generating more interest," Bankay said.

The Dream Weekend bus being talked about in the video can often be seen around Kingston. The bus is a coaster that features the Dream Weekend flyer wrapped around it that is used for promotional purposes.

The Gleaner Company- sponsored Dream Weekend takes place in Negril from July 29 - August 1 and features eight parties. The parties are: Flavours, Twisted Spiritz, Beer Vibes, Xtremme Wet N Wild, Yush, Daydreams, Smirnoff Xclusive and a mystery eighth event.

y Pen auditions have surpassed last year in both the quantity and quality of contestants.

Remaining audition dates after Savanna-la-Mar in the series which offers a million dollars in cash to the winner ($250,000 to the runner up and $100,000 to the third-place winner) along with mobile phones from LIME are; Saturday, August 13, 2011 in Montego Bay and Saturday, August 27, 2011 in Kingston. The next audition is Saturday, June 25, 2011, at Island Village, Ocho Rios.