SCENE REPORT A Guide to French Caribbean Popular Music By Rebecca Bodenheimer · Illustration by Darren Shaddick · February 12, 2020 The Caribbean is known for its fertile musical production, born of the encounters between diverse cultures—Indigenous, European, and African—that resulted from the violent Spanish, British, Dutch, and French colonizations of the Americas. That said,…

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The Caribbean islands are located in the region of the Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean Sea region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, north of South America and West of the Atlantic Ocean. The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, considered as the Lucayan Archipelago…

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – The Mosaic Steel Orchestra was founded 20 years ago by Dr. Anthony Hailey, an internationally-known percussionist.His goal was to bring Caribbean-style steel drum music to young people in Hampton Roads who may not have been exposed to it before.Xavier McGee plays steel drums in the orchestra.“I really like the sound whenever…