Podcasts about 3canal

Four extraordinary stories that explore the thrills and chills of live music performances. PJ Powers, the South African singer who became the first white pop star to perform live to a black audience in Soweto during the height of apartheid. (This interview was first broadcast in 2016) Marjorie Eliot, the Harlem jazz pianist who for almost 30 years has been holding free concerts in her living room every Sunday – she does so to honour the memory of her son who died on a Sunday. (This interview was first broadcast in 2015) Luca Parmitano, the Italian astronaut who became the first DJ in orbit, after playing a live set from the International Space Station to a cruise ship of clubbers in Ibiza. The rapso band 3Canal on the origins of J'Ouvert Morning, the pre-dawn dance through the streets of Port of Spain that opens one of the biggest festivals in the Caribbean – the legendary Trinidad Carnival. (This interview was first broadcast in 2016) Presented by Emily Webb Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com Picture: Luca Parmitano Credit: World Club Dome/ESA

Four extraordinary stories that explore the thrills and chills of live music performances. PJ Powers, the South African singer who became the first white pop star to perform live to a black audience in Soweto during the height of apartheid. (This interview was first broadcast in 2016) Marjorie Eliot, the Harlem jazz pianist who for almost 30 years has been holding free concerts in her living room every Sunday – she does so to honour the memory of her son who died on a Sunday. (This interview was first broadcast in 2015) Luca Parmitano, the Italian astronaut who became the first DJ in orbit, after playing a live set from the International Space Station to a cruise ship of clubbers in Ibiza. The rapso band 3Canal on the origins of J'Ouvert Morning, the pre-dawn dance through the streets of Port of Spain that opens one of the biggest festivals in the Caribbean – the legendary Trinidad Carnival. (This interview was first broadcast in 2016) Presented by Emily Webb Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com Picture: Luca Parmitano Credit: World Club Dome/ESA

Dean Williams Short Bio 2019 Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, Dean Williams began his journey in music during his studies at his high school, Hillview College. He began playing all instruments in the school band, drums, bass, keyboards and the guitar. He further studied and performed onstage on the trumpet and double bass. He has studied classic guitar with Anthony Williams, Graham Newling and Anders Kappel and completed grade 8 ABRSM certificate in classical guitar. He completed the final level Jazz guitar certification at Berklee online with Bruce Saunders and UTT with Dave Marcellin. He has completed both his Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) and his Masters of Arts (MA) degrees at UTT. He has taught music theory and guitar at both BP RENEGADES and BIRDSONG and the Holistic School music academies. Dean has lectured in Music Theory and instructed in guitar at Community College COSTAATT and works in their outreach programme. He worked at the UTT Academy of Performing Arts from 2014 to 2017 as adjunct instructor of contemporary and classical guitar. Dean has toured extensively across Asia, Europe, North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. His career of recording, touring and performing with music acts include Kitchener, Sparrow, Rose, Machel Montano, Destra, Atlantik, Xtatik, 3Canal and Kindred. Shaggy, Wyclef Jean, Sean Paul, Ray Holman, David Rudder, Bp Renegades, Ras Shorty I and the Love Circle, Isaac Blackman, Vashawn Mitchell, Luther Francois, Ronald Boo Hinkson, Michele Henderson, Michael and David Boothman, Clive Zanda, Etienne Charles, Larnell Lewis (Snarky Puppy), Jonathan Scales and Leon Foster Thomas (Ropeadope Records). He has recorded in genres including Pop, Jazz, R&B, Calypso, Soca, World Beat, Rapso, Gospel Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Calypso Jazz, Rock/Blues, Classical and Folk music. Dean as a composer and producer has won the Silver Addy Award in the Caribbean Region for his suite of music composed for a major ad campaign in Trinidad. Guardian Peter Ray Blood calls Dean the ‘eclectic jazz guitarist.’ and Guardian Tennille Alleyne praises his “masterful touch.” Guardian Simon Lee says Dean ‘delivered a set of sensual George Benson - inflected smooth guitar, marking him as one of the young local musicians who embraces the challenge of taking his instrument to ears beyond our shores.’ He is a featured Jazz artist and composer on The TriniJazzProject CD 2014 debut album on Parlemuzik label. Dean recently led his quartet to three major jazz festivals; St Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival 2016, Mt Irvine Jazz on the Beach 2015/2016 and the Jazz Artistes on the Greens Festival 2016. He has been the band leader at North Coast Jazz for 2018, 2019. Dean Williams Artist/Composer/Educator 1-868-681-3326 1-868-338-5756 triniguitarman@hotmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alicia-joanne-nelson/support

In this episode, of Talk 'Bout Us, we are into the second part of our special Carnival 2019 series - The Re-Release. The men of rapso collective 3canal tell us about the songs that have meant the most to them over their more than 20-year career and which songs they think could do with a second outing.  1n 1998, 3canal gave the rapso genre a shot in the arm with their monster hit Blue. In the years that followed, Wendell Manwarren, Stanton Kewley and Roger Roberts (original member John Isaacs passed away in 2000) have been shining a light on society with a style that stays true to a uniquely Trinidadian oral tradition.   

Producer Jake Hochberger brings us to the southernmost island in the Caribbean, Trinidad. Trinidad is the birthplace of the steel drum, calypso and soca music, and is home to the largest Carnival celebration in the world. Here we encounter the musical and philosophical movement called rapso--an infectiously danceable rhythmic oration style that comes with a philosophy championing a Trinidadian identity in the face of a colonial history and a globalized present. We meet three generations of artists, from the founding King of Rapso, Brother Resistance, to the emerging musicians behind the American hip-hop influenced trapso sound. Brother Resistance shares stories of how local rhythms and participation in Trinidad’s Black Power movement influenced him to define his music as the most recent manifestation of an ancient oral tradition, as passed down from the West African griot. Omari Ashby of Kindred, Wendell Manwarren of 3Canal, and Ataklan bring us into the Trinidadian cultural matrix, where speed-rapping Carnival masquerade characters come to life through this music of rebellion and social uplift. Producer: Jake Hochberger Follow Afropop Worldwide on Facebook at www.facebook.com/afropop, on Instagram @afropopworldwide and on Twitter @afropopww. Subscribe to the Afropop Worldwide newsletter at www.afropop.org/newsletter/ Afropop Closeup [Distributed 12/06/2016]

Producer Jake Hochberger brings us to the southernmost island in the Caribbean, Trinidad. Trinidad is the birthplace of the steel drum, calypso and soca music, and is home to the largest Carnival celebration in the world. Here we encounter the musical and philosophical movement called rapso--an infectiously danceable rhythmic oration style that comes with a philosophy championing a Trinidadian identity in the face of a colonial history and a globalized present. We meet three generations of artists, from the founding King of Rapso, Brother Resistance, to the emerging musicians behind the American hip-hop influenced trapso sound. Brother Resistance shares stories of how local rhythms and participation in Trinidad’s Black Power movement influenced him to define his music as the most recent manifestation of an ancient oral tradition, as passed down from the West African griot. Omari Ashby of Kindred, Wendell Manwarren of 3Canal, and Ataklan bring us into the Trinidadian cultural matrix, where speed-rapping Carnival masquerade characters come to life through this music of rebellion and social uplift.