A CASYM Christmas Carol - Christmas Dinner & Show 2018
Brooklyn, New York, USA - “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go” or so the song goes. But everyone like knows it isn’t really Christmas until the annual CASYM Christmas dinner and show has taken place.
With colors of red, white and green everywhere, on December 23, 2018 the St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York was abuzz with the excitement of the youth of Class One and Class Two looking forward to their night’s performance. Past CASYM students/members, family and friends of years gone by, CASYM’s present students and young ones who will undoubtedly be in CASYM’s future - locked in a life cycle of CASYM’s past, present and future. The show displayed a reality version of “A CASYM Christmas Carol,” but minus the ghosts and Ebenezer Scrooge, of course. Instead, all present were gathered to witness, feel and live the experience of what is almost always one of the organization’s two annual signature concert events, shining the music spotlight on steel orchestra performances while also incorporating the element of dance.
CASYM Class Two
For many years When Steel Talks has followed the growth of CASYM Steel Orchestra as both a community-based music educational organization and as a performing arts institution.
CASYM Class Two
With the CASYM legacy firmly in place it is all about the generations now. Generations of Pan players that reinforce the established success and tradition of the organization. CASYM’s investment in self and community has come full circle. Michelle Williams-Pierre-Louis, a CASYM executive, player and pan mom has brought this story to life. She began playing with CASYM as a youngster and in later years moved into an administrative role within the music organization, and also became an educator herself, while maintaining performance prominence as a pannist with the steel orchestra. As an educator, one of her young charges she taught in CASYM, Rico Hunte, has in turn grown up as an educator and performing artist himself, and is now teaching Williams-Pierre-Louis’ own son.
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