By Crediton Courier Newspaper in Local People
IF anyone needed reminding how important music is in life, they need only have gone along to the recent concert of Caribbean music given by pupils of Yeoford Primary School.
They have been working with Richard Miners who runs Mid Devon Music based in Copplestone. Yeoford is one of the schools where he tutors regularly, at others he runs workshops.
At Christmas he worked with the school to produce their seasonal CD. Since then they have been looking at the music of the Caribbean - good music to look at in January and February.
At the concert in the village community hall, Richard explained a little of the background to the music to the audience of parents and friends.
He said it had developed through the slaves at the sugar plantations discovering how the hollow sugar cane could be used as bamboo to make music, how metal biscuit tins had led to the steel drums and bands.
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