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Calypso band gives Caribbean flair to holiday concert - Oregon, USA

The Observer 

Students who are part of the Elgin High School Calypso band prepare Tuesday during class for The Observer's upcoming Holiday Music Festival at Eastern Oregon University.

by Sabrina Thompson

Elgin, Oregon, USA — The sounds of Trinida

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Philharmonic's holiday concert features community talent - Binghamton High School Steel Drum Band performs

PressConnects.com

Binghamton, NY, USA - The Christmas season is all about getting together with family and friends to have a fun time — and that’s the spirit behind the Binghamton Philharmonic’s holiday pops concert Saturday.

In addition to the symp

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No Pan For Indian Arrival Day.

No pan for Indian Arrival Day.

Just Indian dancers and an' tassa like it was Hoosey

(Who say?)

Yeah, but Jack Warner was dey

(I doh know what Jack Wanna be...)

Buh, he coudda warn ah brudder!

Yuh mean tuh tell me that it ain't have one pan side, made

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Labor Day In New York - Work It. Work It. Work It.

This Labor Day, while my peers "win'in' down de place" and "hittin' de rum" (puncheon, anyt'ing!) on de Parkway in Brooklyn, we are reminded of the origin of this US federal holiday, the offspring of the working-class and organized unions. Ironically

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