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SpotlightPapa Creole!
Ian JacksonJuly 4, 2019Well, many of us won't see it again, this once-in-a- lifetime event where three icons grace a Dominica stage each observing half a century of music. In fact it won't ...
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SpotlightDoing it solo
Ian JacksonJuly 4, 2019At one time music was all about bands; the Exile's , Grammax's, Groovers', Stars and Belles, to name a leading few. At one time one would think that our musical ...
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SpotlightWriter's block
Ian JacksonJune 27, 2019Two weeks ago ended a three-part series on the rise and fall of literature in Dominica and heralded were Edward Sobie Lawrence, Jean Rhys, Ralph Casimir, Dr. Lennox Honychurch, Phyllis ...
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SpotlightMore than words
Ian JacksonJune 26, 2019DOMFESTA painting exhibitions still demonstrate some of the best is to be found on island as I witnessed a couple weeks ago at the Old Mill Cultural Centre. I am ...
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SpotlightMama Creole Sizzles
Ian JacksonJune 26, 2019Bravo to Ophelia and show organiser Wadix for an entertaining weekend at the Strip. Even as great as the artiste's performance was the behavior and discipline of a predominantly mature ...
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SpotlightLet us Recognize the Notre Dame of Song
Ian JacksonMay 3, 2019Yes, in case you did not know, Notre Dame is French for "Our Lady" or "Our Mother" as in the Blessed Virgin Mary. So it's no wonder that the Christian ...
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SpotlightSound Engineering: What are we doing to improve?
Ian JacksonMay 3, 2019As far as I can recall not even one young person has been offered a scholarship far less encouraged to do sound engineering as a vocation. Sure we have about ...
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SpotlightThe Voice
Ian JacksonApril 11, 2019Yes, indeed there are those who are born with it and we must listen when they talk. It has nothing to do with charisma or style or good looks; it's ...
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SpotlightNasio and Calypso a Must for WCMF 2019
Ian JacksonApril 10, 2019It's been a cry, seemingly unheeded, since no clarifications have been given to explain why Dominica's premier Reggae artiste, and one of the world's greatest, is yet to grace the ...
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SpotlightFamalay lay, lay, lay
Ian JacksonApril 2, 2019'Famalay'-a song written and performed by Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano from Trinidad and Tobago and Skinny Fabulous from St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been breaking record views across ...
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SpotlightAsh in the Mas
Ian JacksonApril 2, 2019In his January 2019 article entitled "A Brief History of Carnival in the Caribbean" Christopher Curley acknowledges that Carnival has mixed roots of African culture and Catholicism
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SpotlightCalypso: Put Your House in Order
Ian JacksonApril 1, 2019It will happen; it's just a matter of time. How long? One decade possibly is my prediction before Bouyon completely overhauls Calypso and then it will become merely a staged ...
