canouanmusic by paddycorea

Canouanmusic (my music publishing company) is the

umbrella under which you will find all my involvement

in caribbean cultural activities beginning early 50's

(music, mas, ideas, steelpan, info, etc) and there

will be lots of photo's, CD's, & Demon Fuzz bio.

Obviously this is a very personal statement by me,

virtually a biography, so please understand and

allow my indulgence. Enjoy.

this will give you

a quick synopsis

of my involvement.

This journey starts in St. Vincent back in the 40's.
My mother got me into carnival at age 4 and since
then its been like a disease. I was born on new years
morning and that in itself tells the story. In those
days you had "string" bands going arount the town
and from house to house (and ofcourse rum shop to
rum shop) playing music (night and day).
A "string" band was comprised of all sorts of string
instruments (guitars, banjo's, violins, quatro's etc)
now add the bamboo flute, iron, shack shcak several
drums and anything else that could make music.
Thats the environment into which I was born.
My steel pan involvement came around 1957 when
I bought a "pan" from Sparrow Duncan (a vinci legend)
who taught me how to play and how to build a pan.
My sax playing came by accident sometime around
1963 when Mambo sold me an old beaten up alto
for seven pounds. I was sooo ignorant of the
instrument that for 2 or 3 months I played it with
the mouthpiece upside down. It was Rex Williams
a violinist friend who corrected it. In 3 or 4 years I was
playing with a local band in Stoke Newington (London)
The photo's will tell you the rest.

1958

Tribute to RAMESES 2nd.

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1959 Vikings and their Mythology.

Feast of the Aztecs 1960

zambesi

Warriors

of Ithaca.

VIVA PORT ROYAL.

I brought the first VINCI mas
in NY in 1972, thanks to
Sam DeBique's insistence.
We used his living room as
a mas camp.

First Vinci mas in NY.

My band 1972 Circles & Squares Zambezi 1973 (2nd year)

3rd year

KABUKI

I was married on my birthday (new year's day)

Jan 1st, 1966, in London. Pics of my kids in

Plumstead (south London) late 60's then NY USA.

Jamal died in 1989, Juanita still in US Army (Iraq).