The Vincentian
SJCK gets new steel pans
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - The student body of the SJCK celebrated the arrival of new pans for the St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown Pan Starz Orchestra, to the tunes of ‘We Jammin’, ‘Billy Jean’, ‘Differentology’ and more.
The celebration marked the Pan Against Crime Committee’s donation of pans to the school, Monday 3rd June.
Calma Balcombe, the School’s principal, addressing the gathering at the School, expressed “gratitude to the Committee of the Pan Against Crime organization for considering us to receive new steel pans to complement our steel orchestra – the St Joseph’s Convent Pan Starz.”
....The enthusiasm of the students to receive the new tenor, double tenor, double guitar, triple guitar and high bass pans could be easily felt as the students celebrated with steel pan, song and dance. The Pan Against Crime movement has accumulated over 2500 persons and has seen children excel academically as a result of their involvement.
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