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Soufriere
$35.00 Select optionsNamed for the village home of a beautiful active sulfur spring and volcano in St. Lucia, Soufrière (pronounced soo- free-ay) is a haunting tune that combines a Folk aesthetic with Jazz harmonies and the Zouk rhythm of Guadeloupe.
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Hope
$20.00 Select optionsHope, written by composer, performer and educator Jeff Narell, weaves nicely between reggae and soca.
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Not a Care
$35.00 Select optionsThe melody is nice, easy and carefree.
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Hula Hoop
$30.00 Select optionsHula Hoop is a super fun samba reggae is an interlocking rhythm section tune that will eventually grab the audience and make them want to get up and dance.
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If I Only Had a Brain
$30.00 Select optionsAudiences will love this reggae treatment of the familiar tune from The Wizard of Oz.
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Carpe Diem
$35.00 Select optionsThis is a fun, high-energy calypso that will have the audience up on their
feet! I composed “Carpe Diem” during the time I had the Sons Of Steel
steel band. It was written with performance in mind with lots of room for
cool choreography, which the “Sons” were known for during our live
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Jean and Dinah
$35.00 Select optionsOriginally written as a jingle for a department store, Mighty Sparrow’s Jean and Dinah is a nice, easy laid back calypso perfect for beginning to intermediate bands.
Ranges:
Tenor: C4 – A5
Double Tenor: C4 – F5
Double Seconds: Bb3 – C5
Guitars: C3 – C4
Six Bass: Bb1 – Db3Skill Level: Beginner
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Trinidad
$25.00 Select optionsTrinidad is a slow tempo, easy groove that will introduce the typical rhythmic feel of “old-time” Calypso, a variation using the “two drop” Calypso feel and straight ahead Soca.
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Peanut Vendor
$25.00 Select optionsThe Cuban classic Peanut Vendor is one of the most popular of hundreds of songs based on a street seller’s cry. This Reggae arrangement is no exception in the song’s history of stylistic interpretations.
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Floating Serenade
$20.00 Select optionsFloating Serenade introduces students to classical music on pan.