Al Ram­sawack

To­day, like the prover­bial, "Phoenix ris­ing out of the ash­es," the New Cav­a­liers Steel Or­ches­tra is be­ing formed. Fre­quent meet­ings are be­ing held at Mo­hammed's home against the back­ground of a full room of steel­pans. The steer­ing com­mit­tee com­pris­es, apart from Mo­hammed, his three vet­er­an play­ers-Mervyn Diljohn (tenor pan), Elvin Mar­tin (dou­ble tenor) and David John (trum­pet). Even though the fo­cus will be on the pan, there will be a fu­sion or mar­riage of the wind, string and oth­er per­cus­sion in­stru­ments. The fu­sion of this en­sem­ble will pro­duce the big sound of a com­plete or­ches­tra. The reper­toire will com­prise clas­si­cal, Latin, lo­cal, re­li­gious and oth­er mu­sic, and will be struc­tured to in­clude vo­cals. The New Cav­a­liers will be hav­ing a grand re­union of mem­bers of all those bands who have touched the life of the old Cav­a­liers, at the pop­u­lar Skif­fle Bunch Steel Or­ches­tra Pa­n­yard on Cof­fee Street, San Fer­nan­do, on March 12, at 3 pm, to share the mem­o­ries of the past and to re­store that south­ern broth­er­hood and ca­ma­raderie among the bands. The Sun­day Guardian wish­es the New Cav­a­liers all suc­cess in the fu­ture.