US Youth Steelband Sets All-Time Audience Record

New York-based website www.panonthenet.com was first in reporting an audience of 7,000 (an estimate later confirmed by venue officials) for CYP’s outdoor concert at Philadelphia’s Mann Center for the Performing Arts. The band shared the bill with the city’s Spoken Hand Orchestra, a drumming group that explores rhythm traditions of West Africa, the Afro-Cuban experience, Brasil and Northern India.
Speaking on Friday to The Express from CYP’s Brooklyn rehearsal space, Trinidad-born founder and captain Joseph Gerald said: “It was truly overwhelming, in fact, unbelievable at first, when we saw the crowd that turned up to hear the band. We performed for about 45 minutes and the response was fantastic after every single song. The kids are still ecstatic about the whole experience.”
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