ummm...who are the citations...
and its unfair to call off people who have been dead for years...we talking current...And a number of the people that you have listed...few Bahamians know...or can name 3 original songs that these people actually sings...I still do appreciate your point though...but it would have been better appreciated if you had called modern song artist whose faces one can picture with the name.
Plus only two people on your list actually does sing their own songs.



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Man das what I said. How could you not know who 'Swain and the Citations" is ma bredder????

... and I ein dat old.... under 35....:screw:

There is nothing Bahamian about cricket...

Actually, we imported Sailing and Cricket from the same place.

Man das what I said. How could you not know who 'Swain and the Citations" is ma bredder????
... and I ein dat old.... under 35....:screw:

What song/songs do they sing?

Hold on!
Yinna don't know who "SWAIN AND THE CITATIONS" is?
SWAIN AND DA TICKETS??????? (as we jokingly call them...)
....what 'bout "Jay Mitchell and Hot Ice?"

yeah we know Jay Mitchell...still I don't have a clue who Swain is...but then again...I never use to go to the clubs. I am assuming his song plays on the radio

How is cricket a cultural thing as it origniated in the UK?

man cricket was our national sport for years...
Truly, I still think it is...I don't they they ever changed it to sailing.
Same way the Anglican Church is our national church, even though we have more Baptist and they control the Christian counsel.

ummm...
man give examples man...
young people love and appreciate a junkanoo
some conch fritters, and crack conch...
some even like skyjuice and thing.
chilling stay lighting off fire crackers on holloween....i think we are the only country that does do that...

The reason that Bahamians set off firecrackers at Halloween is that they are combining two imported events. Halloween from the US and Guy Fawkes (Bonfire Night) from the UK

The young man stated: "I don't think my parents could name off a Bahamian artist who played orginal songs much less rake and scrape"

So every artist that I quoted in that list referred to artists from his FATHER'S time!

My goodness people, if you are going to challenge something at least read the context of the response!

And the ridiculous nature of your quote that only two people on that list sang their own songs shows a state of ignorance that is appalling on so many levels. You put your foot in your mouth so deep that I can use it to kick you in your behind with it!

The artists that are dead on that list are probably rolling over in their graves right now and the ones that are alive are probably holding their heads in sorrow. Their own Bahamian people are ignorant of our rich Bahamian music history.

Knowledge is power. Visit this site please...

http://www.bahamasentertainers.com

And how could I forget (Sir) Ronnie Butler and The Ramblers, Pat Rahming, Ray Munnings, Dry Bread and Dr. Off...Culture is history remember that

Me? I just saying that smokey sang a lot of American songs...so does Jay Mitchel and the T Conections

The reason that Bahamians set off firecrackers at Halloween is that they are combining two imported events. Halloween from the US and Guy Fawkes (Bonfire Night) from the UK

they imported and made a completely original culture...something authentically Bahamian
Its still only done in the Bahamas...

What song/songs do they sing?

Check out http://www.goestores.com/catalog.aspx?Merchant=bahamianmusicdis&DeptID=226416

Check out http://www.goestores.com/catalog.aspx?Merchant=bahamianmusicdis&DeptID=226416

ah...it did not list the names of the songs...

ah...it did not list the names of the songs...

It does if you click where it says click for product description

the bahamas entertainers site is a good start, but where is:

courage band (two albums, internationally distributed)
percentie brothers (four albums, one just remastered)
charlie lofthouse ("island woman," "mama don't want no peas no rice")
brilanders (four no. 1 hits in the past ten years)
lighthouse chapel street choir (many singles, featuring uncle sam higgs and rocky saunders, two of the best guitarists to come out of the out islands in years, as noted by beres hammond and others)

include the out island artists! island fm does, and the regional out island news forums celebrate their music, too.

man cricket was our national sport for years...
Truly, I still think it is...I don't they they ever changed it to sailing.
Same way the Anglican Church is our national church, even though we have more Baptist and they control the Christian counsel.

I find it boring. Basketball might be more realistic.:)

the bahamas entertainers site is a good start, but where is:
courage band (two albums, internationally distributed)
percentie brothers (four albums, one just remastered)
charlie lofthouse ("island woman," "mama don't want no peas no rice")
brilanders (four no. 1 hits in the past ten years)
lighthouse chapel street choir (many singles, featuring uncle sam higgs and rocky saunders, two of the best guitarists to come out of the out islands in years, as noted by beres hammond and others)
include the out island artists! island fm does, and the regional out island news forums celebrate their music, too.

That site is an anthology done as part of a Master's Degree thesis by Christopher Justilien.

Don't know why the other artists were omitted off the list. Overlooked perhaps?

Just like that it can be seen how the documentation of our cultural history is fragmented and incomplete.

It's no wonder cultural erosion definitely is taking place. We have such a rich culture, but few are documenting it or caring to take notice of it in any real detail. Hence the misled conclusion by many of our youth that we have none.