New Haven Independent
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Children crossed their drumsticks above their heads, hitting them together to start off a rendition of jazz legend Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man”—and they were off filling St. Luke’s Episcopal Church with steel-pan magic.
The song opened the Steel Pan Summer Camp’s concert at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Friday morning.
Students recruited from New Haven Public Schools played songs by artists from Mozart to Bruno Mars to the Seattle-based rap group Macklemore. As parents filmed on iPhones and cameras, the children got the audience swaying and clapping along as they showed off the results of two weeks of rehearsals sponsored by the St. Luke’s Steel Band.
WST note - The song in the video the kids are playing is the great Caribbean Soca hit “Roll It Gal” by Alison Hinds - not “Watermelon Man”...
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