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Somebody shout "They Kill Bou-Cou-Meh, Oh God He Dead! He Dead!"

The warfare between two rival gangs Tokyo from Marabunta territory and Desperadoes was not anticipated to culminate in murder, but it did, after months of rioting for turf and prestige with the occasional buss-head and cutlass slashes, in this instance, in this clash, a dagger made from the fabled Stingray poisonous bone, found a home in the heart of Bou-Cou-Meh. He lay there on the pavement bleeding out as…

The UWI Community mourns the passing of Dr Anthony Achong who passed away on June 29, 2020. DR Achong was an academic who devoted much of his research to steelpan technology.



He began his academic career in UWI Mona in 1970 where he started as a Part-Time Tutor in 1970 and then worked his way up to become a Lecturer in Physics in 1975 where he…

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Don't forget to register by clicking on the link below for "Music While We're Inside Free Concert XXIV" to catch Sean & Ruby duet performance featuring spoken word by Ruby accompanied by Sean on double seconds steel drums & drums.

Date: Sun, August 23, 2020

Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

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When Jordan Played

A poem inspired by the music of jazz pianist Irving "Duke" Jordan

Words - Ruby Boddie
Voicing - Ruby Boddie
Steelpan accompanist - Sean Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfn8VNnrHk4&t=2s

A poem remembering Abbey Lincoln, poet & jazz vocalist

Words - Ruby Boddie

Voicing - Ruby Boddie & Sean Thomas

Drums - …

An Ode to Anika
Words - Ruby Boddie 
Voicing - Ruby Boddie
Steelpan accompanist - Sean Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guw9iMhNGwI

Reilly Digital Series: https://www.reillyartscenter.com/live/

Thursday, May 7, 2020 -…

Friday, April 17, 2020 | 7:00 PM | The Sean Thomas Quartet

The Sean Thomas Quartet will present a STAY at HOME repertoire for all to enjoy.

The repertoire will touch on selections by Stevie Wonder, Sonny Rollins, Bob Marley, Duke Jordon & Miles Davis performed by a cast that's passionate about making music. The Quartet features Kayton Lane…

Click on the following links. In this time of Lent, it may be a good time to clean up your act, and end your disobeying of the "Commandments". I know I have. May you be governed accordingly, and judged according to your own works.

George D. Goddard. …

TO JEREMY DE BARRY: Mr. de Barry, this is a second notice, that you remove all content of the book,"Forty Years In The Steelbands, 1939-1979" by George "Sonny" Goddard, (ISBN 9781854650344). You continue to violate my mother's rights as the copyright owner. I verified with her that she never gave anyone, you included, permission to reproduce the book. This is what she wrote and is in the process of notarizing:

Tuesday January 21, 2020

DISCLAIMER…

PA N  _ _ _

Has come a long way

But do you know::

How we got where we are today ???

++

The Boys 

Didn’t read music

So how did they teach it???

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Well, listen up -  Listen up

Ah go tell you today

CHORUS

Watch "meh" hand boy

Ah, say watch meh hand!! (ping ping ping pong ) 

Ah doing it slow --- For you to understand Boy

----

Watch meh…

It was Carnival Monday

I wasn't Jumping up in de Band

I was playing Spectator

Hugging up "may" partner Worman

When this old girlfriend Spot me

And - Darling "before meh head could ah tun"

She "start" bathing in powder

And drag me in de band -

Singing (CHORUS)

C1

Doh tell me you can't remember

When all ah we used to run

Doh tell me you can't remember

Darling - Dem days was real - "real"…

V1,

Tell Me Again & Again

Please Help Me Understand,

The Evaluation

Of The Steel Pan

Those Stories Told

Of Days Of Old

Really Fascinate Me

So Ah To Ask "May" Granny

Who Sat Me Down & Explained Me

    -CHORUS-

(pick-up) Son, It Was        

IT Was Pan Better Pan-

Man Better Man -

Band Better Band

(Sub Chorus)

Lord Help You

If You Touch We Flag…

A podcast featuring conversations with Caribbean jazz and pan jazz musicians based in the islands and the diaspora. [LINK HERE]…

Tuition available as well...

What is the situation re The CAZIQ Music  to  which DESPERADOES had aligned themselves ?

The first Panorama in Brooklyn was held in 1972, and on August 31st, 2019 was the 45th in the 5 decades. The winning arrangers & bands:

1972<>TROPICANS with DENZIL "Belt" BOTUS

1973<>PAN MASTERS with DAVE LA BARRIE

1974 Panorama was rained out

1975<>BROOKLYNAIRES with LEON STERLING

1976<>EXIBITS with ANTHONY LYNCH

1977<>MOODS with LEN "Boogsie" SHARPE

1978<>SATISFIERS with TREVOR KING

1979 and…