Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 06, 2016 (SKNIS): During the 16th edition of Heart Beat, a drumming recital produced by the Department of Culture, the audience can expect to be taken on a journey into a world of imagination.
This is according to Royd Phipps, Drumming Specialist, who coordinates the free, annual event for parents of the performers, teachers, music-lovers and supporters in general.
“This year Heart Beat 16 is “Drums of our Imagination – where you’ll have somebody like a Griot (African historian who entertains with stories, poems, songs etc.), who’ll be setting the tone,” Mr. Phipps said. “He’ll say something like ‘imagine a world without music, then imagine what the sound would be like when we begin to play or imagine what it would be like to come together in peace.”
According to the coordinator, the audience will be encouraged to imagine positive possibilities that may not have been considered before. Heat Beat 16 takes place on Thursday, June 16 at the Methodist Church Hall, referred to as the Old Boys School, starting at 6:00 p.m.
“We have the primary schools (six) and we also have drummers from the secondary schools like Washington Archibald and Basseterre High School, and we have the National Youth Drum Corps made up of the best drummers from the primary schools and we bring them together,” Mr. Phipps said.
Positive things were also said about learning the art of drumming and the fact that the musical evening is free of cost.
“I always like to have a recital and it’s free because the objective is for you to come. Parents you have no reason to say you can’t come,” Mr. Phipps said. “It’s free, free, free. So come sit in the recital. Some of the parents when I see them after, they say they have a whole new perspective of drumming. So it can help, it can help a child in behavioural patterns, building self-esteem, things like that.”
The Heart Beat coordinator noted that over the years he has taught some students who are born with the drumming talent and so he has enhanced it, while others have had to learn the skill. This year, one of the highlights of Heart Beat will be a drum corps of past students.
“That is what I get satisfaction from, the art-form is really continuing,” he said. You don’t just want to do it and don’t see the fruits of it, the progress of it.”
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