Okay so this is my final entry for Le Weekend. It could be called the fringe event weekend really. None of these events were advertised, you had to know someone, or be on facebook or some such. Or be married to Varia. Not that everyone wasn't welcome, but you had to want to be there.
So here we are on Sunday night at Boo Husbands' rum shop in Chimborazo. Boo is a master musician, able to play anything that needs to be blown, including just about every recorder (he has an amazing collection). The objective of the session is just to jam. Pickled green fig and breadfruit is provided (as are drinks), but the real fare is the music. Several of Barbados' top musicians are there, in no particular order: Eyan, Nicholas Brancker, Mike Sealy, and of course, Boo himself. David Pilgrim is visiting from NY, as is songstress Ledawn who rocks some of our favourite standards.
Boo's shop is about as high as you can get in Bim - Chimborazo, a hidden away village up in the hills with beautiful views of the East coast, and constant breeze. Interestingly there is a surprisingly diverse collection rums on the shelf....
Eyan loses himself in the music
I don't know this guy's name, but he is a wicked drummer
Mike Sealy, veteran musician, played some amazing music, all the while looking like he was taking a Sunday stroll...
These two wait their turn to play, on the left, a budding young trombonist, on the right, pannist Mistral Baldeo
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