Movement for Social Justice Pays Tribute to Steel Pan Genius Bertie Marshall
Global - The Executive, Activist Council and members of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) join his family, the rest of the national community and the regional and international steelband movement in mourning the loss of Bertie Lloyd Marshall who left us last Wednesday 17th October. He was an ordinary man who did extra-ordinary things to advance the steelband instrument and its music.
Bertie was born in 1936 in the working class community of Laventille at a time when Trinidad was in industrial turmoil and the transition from Tamboo Bamboo to Dustbin was in full gear.
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