Selected News Clips

Time to rhyme: Dub Poetry Festival

Anti-violence educator Ras Mo Moses walked into a youth detention facility in San Francisco a few years ago to find a group of hardened teens listening to nothing but hard-core rap. A lecture from a podium wasn't going to cut it with this crowd, he soon realized. "I needed to speak a language they understood," said Moses. (Full Article)

Fontaine's natural rhythm unbeatable

André Jebbinson, Staff Reporter, Jamaica Gleaner
February 4, 2007 - Dominican singer, Nasio Fontaine, is only one of the many artistes who reggae icon Bob Marley has influenced. Though he grew up in Dominica, he was still under the influence of the flow of the music into his consciousness and it lifted his energy. (Full Article)

Independence Pan Fistival, 2006

The Dominica National Steelband Association in collaboration with the National Cultural Council and the Division of Culture present the Independence Pan Festival, 2006 - Pan By The Bay. (Full Story)

Dominica's Quiet Giant - Mr. Edward André

Roseau, Dominica - Often one can look back in history and identify a single event, time and/or a single person whose presence, sacrifices and deeds were so enormous and critical to a movement, that we are simultaneously happily amazed and

frightened - at the fragility of the survival of subsequent dependant events and cultural occurrences. There are similar stories throughout the Caribbean of steelpan people who were the only entities that stood between life and death of the steelband movement in their midst. (Full Story)