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A Cuban drummer has joined a top Bermudian teacher to stage a two-week percussion camp. Angel Luis Ruiz will help Eddie Ming teach before a gala production of Latin jazz next week. He said: “I love drumming, I love the connection I have with my instr...

Callum Smith’s first real gig was at a massive nightclub in Mexico City. “Nerve-racking”, is how he describes the period before he got on stage; there were more than 1,000 people at LooLoo Studio waiting to hear him play the saxophone and sing a few ...

At the age of 8, John Burch was called into the kitchen where his three brothers and his father, Reginald, waited. Told to stand on a chair, he was handed a bass fiddle and given a chord to play; his father accompanied him on guitar. “We probably pla...

Roddy Nesbitt leads a double life. By day he’s an excess casualty broker; at night he’s Rowdy Piper, boisterous singer with DIA. “Sometimes it feels like both are alter egos with ‘me’ tucked in somewhere between but I try to be myself regardless,” th...

Jamaica’s iconic Half Moon Hotel will pay tribute to Bermudian musician Lance Hayward by naming its new oceanfront bar and grill “Hayward’s”. Sylvia Hayward, Mr Hayward’s daughter, was delighted by the news. She said: “I immediately began to cry. I w...

The saxophone was Tino Sax’s third choice, but it stuck. Then in middle school in Texas, he wanted to play the drums until the band director warned he would have to learn all the instruments in the percussion family. “My mother said that may be a lot...

They’ve spent decades on the stage but this performance is a special one for Gita Blakeney Saltus and Sheila Smith. The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts opens Saturday with women as its focus. Lifestyle spoke with the two singers about it. Q: ...

Bobby Zuill wears bandanas wherever he goes. It’s not because the 72-year-old is living on the memories of his days as one of Bermuda’s “rock stars” and thinks it’s cool — it’s because he’s losing his hair. “I need them to keep the sun off my head,” ...

Phiemma Caisey’s father, Albert, put her on stage at the old Rosebank Theatre “and that was it”. Then 8, she didn’t consider all the potential pitfalls of performing before a crowd — that they might not like her voice; that she might forget the words...

The quartet is called Leviticus and, if music is your thing, you’ll want to hear them play. They take traditional tunes and rearrange them, infusing bossa nova, Afro-Cuban and traditional jazz rhythms. “We’re a jazz quartet that plays primarily hymns...

15th Annual Bermuda Guitar Festival Presented by the Bermuda School of Music at St Andrew’s Church Jake Reichbart, guitar Master teacher and arranger Jake Reichbart was on his first visit to Bermuda. His repertoire of jazz, rock and pop standard...

The Wall Street Band officially formed in September 2008 — a month before the stock market crashed. Their reputation was growing and a change of name would be confusing, so the band laughed it off. “The seed started with the Bermuda Music Festival,”...