Alpha brings collectively Caribbean band leaders for dialogue and Jam session
Jamaica’s Alpha College of Music presents the Inaugural Sister Ignatius Lecture and Jam Session that includes native and worldwide band leaders from throughout the Caribbean.
On Wednesday, Could 24, critically acclaimed Trinidadian jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles, and bassist Nicholas Brancker, from Barbados, will be part of native band leaders Peter Ashbourne and Omar Francis for a complete dialogue in regards to the state of band efficiency and training in Jamaica, throughout the area and world wide.
The occasion is open to the general public and is a singular platform to find out about the way forward for band music within the Caribbean and its implications for enterprise, training, and leisure.
Following the panel dialogue, on Thursday, Could 25, Mr. Charles and Mr. Brancker will hyperlink up once more with their native counterparts at The Jam Is Again, Kingston’s signature stay music occasion, held at 22 Jerk on Barbican Street.
There isn’t any cost to enter the panel dialogue or the jam session.
Because the supervisor of the Alpha Boys Band from the Forties into the twenty first century, Sister Mary Ignatius Davies (1921-2003), is an emblem of Jamaica’s music tradition, a tradition outlined by band efficiency.
A lot of Sister Ignatius’ college students modified the route of jazz and Jamaican fashionable music as members of bands just like the Skatalites, Zap Pow, the Wailers, and Black Disciples.
At this time, the Alpha College of Music is Jamaica’s solely tertiary establishment centered on ensemble, or band, efficiency.
For many years, band efficiency has been the best way that music was taught, carried out, and skilled in Jamaica and all through the Caribbean. Nonetheless, entry to band music and band training is more and more laborious to seek out for many individuals.
The panelists featured within the inaugural Sister Ignatius lecture can converse personally and passionately in regards to the influence of the band of their Caribbean communities in addition to in entrance of 1000’s of individuals on levels world wide.