New York - Enlightening, passionate, humorous, controversial, intense, confrontational, educational, emotional and engaging are just some of the words among many others that can be used to describe the forum "Examining the Roots of Steel Band Activity in New York". Indeed, this discussion provided by the Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute in conjunction with the School of Professional & Community Development at Medgar Evers College was absorbing.
The discussion was moderated by Les Slater, director of the Folk Arts Institute and featured panelists Rudy Estwick, Lennox Leverock, Jessie Lampkin and Roy Sangster.
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The years that I played with my mentor and friend, Rudolf King were 1950 to 1953 when I left the band to join the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1958 I started
my own Steel Band by the name Brooklyn Steel Harmonic. We were the first Steel Band to play on Television on a program called "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. The year was 1959. Out of eight (8) acts, we came in second. Through that showing we acquired a two year gig playing every weekend in Greenwich Villege at a club called the Cafe Bazzarr on West