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Not just jazz

For Release Upon Receipt - April 25, 2014

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – On Saturday May 3, 2014, a mélange of instruments and their talented music-makers come together for “More Than Just Jazz”, a concert by The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Caribbean Contemporary Workshop featuring the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) Student Jazz Ensemble, hosted by the Musical Arts Unit of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts. 

The UWI Caribbean Contemporary “Workshop” Ensemble marks sixteen years of music-making with a tribute to its first lecturer and the founder, former UWI lecturer and jazz musician, the late Mervyn Williams. Director Rellon Brown is a recipient of the Cacique Award for musical direction (The Catalyst, 2005), is a graduate of the UWI DCFA and Trinity College of London, and has distinguished himself as a first call trumpeter in the local music scene for a broad spectrum of musical genres. 

The UWI Jazz Ensemble is headed by Mr. Khion De Las, a distinguished graduate of the music departments of The UWI St. Augustine and Northern Illinois University. He is also a gifted pannist, composer and arranger.  

“More Than Just Jazz” takes place at 7pm, at the Daaga Auditorium of the St. Augustine Campus. Tickets are $50 for adults and $30 for students, and are available at the DCFA, Agostini Street, St. Augustine.

For more information, please contact MichelleWellington@sta.uwi.edu at 663-2141, or Mr. Joseph Drayton at 645-1955 

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