The Daily Herald
Focused junior steelpan players at the Philipsburg Community Centre
Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, W.I. - Dow’s Musical Foundation’s (DMF’s) five-week Melodies and Adventures Summer Camp came to a close with a two-hour Grand Finale Concert at Philipsburg Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon.
Isidore “Mighty Dow” York, founder of the foundation with its main objective to educate, preserve and promote the art form of steelpan music in St. Maarten, said at the start of Sunday’s show that 120 students had participated in the summer camp, ranging from age seven to persons in their 60s.
....Even though steel pan music is the main focus of DMF and its Ebony Steel Orchestra, other musical instruments were featured during the first part of the show, with students showing what they had learned on piano, (bass) guitar, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and also in song and a wide range of percussion instruments.
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