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NY Pan Stars 2017 competing in annual event. Leah Clark-Brisard
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By Nelson A. King
The Crown Heights, Brooklyn
based Carlos Lezama Archives
and Caribbean Cultural Center
(CLACC-C) will host, on Saturday,
Aug. 28, its 8th Annual Children’s
Festival & Youth Pan Fest, showcasing
New York City’s junior steel pan
talent.
The free festival, sponsored by Target,
will include games, entertainment,
food and giveaways; and runs
from 1:00 pm. to 8:00 pm.
It will be held at the CLACC-C
museum grounds at St. John’s Place,
between Kingston and Brooklyn avenues,
in Crown Heights.
CLACC-C said all CDC protocols
will be in place “to ensure a safe
experience.”
The junior steel pan competition
includes some of New York City’s
youngest steel band members and
attracts pan aficionados across the
five boroughs, CLACC-C said.
It said performing steel bands will
include Tonic X, Harmony, Pantonics,
Radoes, Crossfire Youth, Pan Evolution
Steel Orchestra (PESO), and
defending champions Metro Steel.
“We’re back outside, and it’s exciting,”
said Yolanda Lezama-Clark,
CLACC-C president and daughter of
the late Carlos Lezama, co-founder
and former president of the Brooklyn
based West Indian American Day
Carnival Association (WIADCA).
“It is exciting to celebrate the children’s
commitment to playing and
practicing steel pan this year and also
to be outside as intended,” she added.
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Jamaican international reggae icon,
Buju Banton. Shawn Theodore
By Nelson A. King
Grammy award-winning, multiple
Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping and
international reggae icon, Buju Banton
has dropped a new single “Summer
Body” with the overall message of having
“a little fun” and enjoying life.
“As we enter the hottest season of
the year, this track is set to be the premier
anthem of the summer,” Ronnie
Tomlinson, the Jamaican-born, Brooklyn
based entertainment publicist, of
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By Nelson A. Kin
Bernard “Bonni” Browne, leader of
the defunct, top Vincentian band, Clymax,
has added his voice to the glowing
tributes to Vincentian Cultural Ambassador,
Winston Soso, renowned as the
“Rolls Royce of Calypso,” who died on
July 18.
Evan Lockhart, Soso’s son, confirmed
to Caribbean Life that his dad,
the former lead singer of Clymax, died
of multiple medical complications at
State University of New York (SUNY)
Downstate Medical Center and University
Hospital of Brooklyn. He died a few
days after his 69th birthday.
“Today, as reality seeps in the soul, I
pay tribute to another icon of SVG (St.
Vincent and the Grenadines), a man of
many talents/skills, who was blessed
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