BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - SUMMERTIME is here again and, as promised, the Cultural Doctor, Winston ‘Zack’ Nisbett, is once again putting on his Fife, Banjo, Quatro and Guitar Workshop.
The Delisle Walwyn sponsored four-week workshop officially began today (July 30) and will be seeing over 40 children learning about, and how to play the Guitar, Quatro, Fife, the Tenor Banjo and the Ukulele banjo.
The students will be taught by a number of talented, musically oriented persons including Bobby Martin, who, in a short opening ceremony today sad that his aim is to teach the children and ensure that they learn and understand the instruments they wish to learn about.
During the course of the workshop, Zack will be having a number of inspiring individuals coming to speak to the students including Commissioner of Police CG Walwyn, Superintendent at the Her Majesty’s Prison Franklin ‘Weatherman’ Dorsette, Tapley Seaton Q.C., and Sir Probyn Inniss on a variety of topics.
At the end of the workshop (August 25), a closing ceremony will be held where the children will be showing off what they learnt to their parents and other persons in attendance.
They will also be presented with certificates of participation.
In 2010, the Instrumental Workshop was held right after the Easter break with some 53 students attending and Nisbett said that the response was so great that another was held during the Summer to accommodate those children that were not able to attend the first due to the size of the classes.
At the end of that workshop, Nisbett chose some of the students to form a band which has turned out to be very successful as they have been called upon to play at several events.
He promised that at the end of each workshop he would choose the most outstanding students to join his band and has done so following last year's workshop which saw some 51 students from as young as three years old attending.
This year's workshop has seen not only children but parents and even some elders accompanying their children and grandchildren with as much eagerness to learn as the children
This workshop is the seventh to be held after the first that took place some 15 years ago and will continue as an annual event catering to children from as young as four years old right up to the elders.
