New Haven Independent
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - They lifted every voice — and every violin, and every steel drum.
“You can put on your dancing shoes now, and take off your cold weather shoes,” the Steel Band’ s conductor/arranger, Kenneth Joseph, announced before the classical/ Caribbean cultural combo launched into a Motown medley of “My Girl,” “Stop (in the Name of Love”), “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “I’ll Be There.”
This is after the groups had already combined on such novel numbers as Stevie Wonder’s Duke Ellington tribute, “Sir Duke,” and “Africa” by ‘80s rockers Toto. Over a dozen Music Haven students joined Steel Band members for a couple of Bill Withers songs, “Lean on Me.”
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