{"id":21167,"date":"2024-07-08T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21167"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:40:32","slug":"amity-steelband-festival-returns-showcasing-guyanese-student-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/amity-steelband-festival-returns-showcasing-guyanese-student-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Amity Steelband Festival Returns, Showcasing Guyanese Student Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Amity Steelband Festival made a triumphant return after a five-year hiatus, offering a platform for Guyanese students to demonstrate their musical prowess on the steelpan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held at the Seawall Esplanade, the festival featured performances from seven schools across the country, highlighting the vibrant cultural heritage and musical skills nurtured in local educational institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholas Fraser, Administrator of the Education Ministry\u2019s Unit of Allied Arts, emphasized the festival&#8217;s significance beyond music, noting its role in fostering teamwork and valuable life skills among students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed the Ministry&#8217;s commitment to expanding music programs in 18 schools nationwide, despite facing challenges such as the need for more instructors and trained tuners to support these initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participating schools included West Demerara Secondary, St. Roses High, Dolphin Secondary, Buxton Steel Orchestra, President\u2019s College, Berbice High, and the Bishops\u2019 High School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fraser highlighted the festival&#8217;s non-competitive nature, focusing instead on celebrating the students&#8217; talents and promoting cultural enrichment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Unit of Allied Arts also announced plans to introduce a steelband program at the Cyril Potter College of Education, in collaboration with UNESCO through Kross Kolor Records, aiming to further integrate cultural education into the national curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Amity Steelband Festival, which previously ran for over a decade before its hiatus in 2019, stands as a testament to Guyana&#8217;s rich musical traditions and the ongoing efforts to empower young musicians across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amity Steelband Festival made a triumphant return after a five-year hiatus, offering a platform for Guyanese students to demonstrate their musical prowess on the steelpan. Held at the Seawall&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21169,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions\/21169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}