Caribbean
Stevie Wonder, Dave Mason jam at St. Thomas resort
Imagine how the customers felt getting this kind of free show.
Bolongo Bay Beach Resort on St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, has live and free entertainment every night at Iggies, its beach bar. A couple months ago, Stevie Wonder was eating there, and a local band was playing "Living for the City," a cover for one of Wonder's songs. Well, Stevie got up to join the group on stage and played his harp to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun," then sat back down and posed for photos with fans.
Not done yet. Later, Dave Mason stopped by (he was staying at Bolongo and is a friend of the Doumeng family which owns the resort). He and Stevie got on stage for a blues jam, and there are two videos on Bolongo's YouTube channel showing the fun: http://www.youtube.com/user/BolongoBayResort/feed. There are also some photos that are on Bolongo's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/bolongobay
In addition to the occasional star spotting, Bolongo is noted for diving, and now through Aug. 31, when diving conditions are idea in the area, Bolongo is running a stay-and-dive package which includes five nights for two in an ocean-view room; two six-dive passes with the St. Thomas Diving Club, a five-star PADI training facility on site; free scuba rental; and free sail on Bolongo's 53-foot cat, for either the swim with the turtles half-day snorkel trip or the sunset harbor cocktail cruise.
The five-night package is $1,731 (34 percent off regular rates) for room only or $2,870 (23 percent discount) for all inclusive. Rates are for two and include taxes and resort fees.
For information, visit www.bolongobay.com or call 800-524-4746 - and ask what star has been spotted at Iggies lately, a popular spot voted Best Beach Bar in the Caribbean by readers of Caribbean Travel & Leisure for 2012, the second time it's snagged the honor. Maybe the star power is part of the reason why.
Foundation helps Sandals guests become reading volunteers
Ever go by a school in the Caribbean, see some cute kids and wonder if there was any way to maybe help them out in some way? Now you can.
The Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts, is asking guests to lend a hand when they're on vacation through a "voluntourism" literacy program aimed at improving listening, reading and comprehension skills of local Caribbean children.
Available to all guests at Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts or Grand Pineapple Beach Resorts, the "Reading Road Trip" program is a two-hour adventure that takes guests into the community to one of the foundation's participating adopted schools in Saint Lucia, Antigua, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos or Jamaica, to engage small groups of kids in active reading strategies.
The cost is $20 per guest, which covers round-trip transportation and all supplies. Children ages eight to 12 can participate at no costs and all minors must be accompanied by an adult. Volunteers are encouraged to bring along a favorite new or used book (in good shape) to donate to the library of the school they visit.
For information on the Sandals Foundation and its programs, visit www.sandalsfoundation.org
Legends heat up Caribbean jazz scene
There are some pretty big names heating up the Caribbean music scene this month and in late summer, heavy hitters in the world of music in general, jazz in particular.
Saint Lucia Jazz, now in its 21st year, runs through May 13, with main-stage performances on May 13 by powerhouses Diana Ross and Toni Braxton, with nearly 150 million records sold between them, and performances by more than 50 artists in all, playing in locations that include Pigeon Island National Landmark, Rudy John Beach Park in Laborie, Pointe Seraphine in the heart of Castries, and Fond D'Or in Dennery.
Other big names playing include Hugh Masekela, Ziggy Marley, Joshua Redman and Melanie Fiona, along with Saint Lucia's own Luther Francois, Ronald "Boo" Hinkson, Richard Payne, Derek Yarde Project and others.
The festival is presented by the Saint Lucia Tourist Board, and is said to be one of the top five jazz festivals in the world. For information, including ticket prices, visit www.stluciajazz.org and for info on the island and places to stay, check out www.saintlucianow.com
Another event, the third annual Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival, runs Aug. 31-Sept. 1, headlined by the legendary band, Santana. Other world-class performers scheduled to appear include Mana, Ruben Blades, Sergio George's All Star Salsa Friends and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band led by Paquito D'Rivera.
The festival runs at the World Trade Center Curacao in Piscadera Bay. In the week before the festival, concerts with local musicians are held on various locations throughout the island, including the popular party spot, Mambo Beach. Last year's festival drew names performers like Sting, Dionne Warwick, Earth, Wind & Fire and Juan Luis Guerra.
Day tickets start at $195. For more information, check out www.curacaonorthseajazz.com and for information on the island, including places to stay, visit www.curacao.com
St. Lucia's Silk Artist
Why do St. Lucians seem warmer and livelier than some of their island neighbors? My guess is their fusion of African, Carib, Amerindian, French, and English ways. With a touch of Dutch Jewish heritage and a love of silk and rich dyes, Daniel Jean-Baptiste paints with quintessentially Lucian sunniness -- even though, or maybe because, Canada for many years was his home. But Baptiste, who returned to the island with his family in 1995, is about to grow his island presence. He's been restoring a beautiful house in northerly Cap Estate and will soon open his own gallery. Recently he also began leading 4-day silk workshops for small groups. His work is in the collections of Paul Simon and Lucian-born Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, among others.
Photos courtesy Daniel Jean-Baptiste 
E-mail: artofsilk@yahoo.com
Phone: (905) 202-1501
Curacao wins Readers' Choice Award
Now in its fifth year, the About.com readers' awards honors the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to parenting. About.com is owned by The New York Times Co., which also owns The Boston Globe and this website.
For info on Curacao, visit www.curacao.com
Bahama Beach Club has spring/summer savings
Yes, it's hot in the Bahamas in the summer -- but it's also cheaper.
The Bahama Beach Club, a resort overlooking Treasure Cay Beach on Great Abaco Island, a beach Caribbean Travel & Life dubbed the best in the Caribbean, is offering a trio of limited-time offers to save money.
The first is an instant savings air credit, which gets you $400 in instant savings on stays of six or more nights, per villa, or a $250 instant savings on stays of four or five nights, when booking by May 14, and staying between April 15 and Oct. 31. The offer must be booked for a minimum double occupancy and in conjunction with an air-inclusive package when flying from any city in the United States or Canada.
The resort also offers two free plane tickets from Nassau to Abaco when booking a four-night or more stay, with air travel from Nassau. Three nights gets one free ticket. Offer must be booked by June 30 and is valid on double-occupancy stays through Oct. 31.
Lastly, the resort is giving private pilots a $300 fuel credit when they fly to the island. You must book a minimum four-night stay at the club, and it must be booked in conjunction with an all-inclusive package at the resort by June 26, and is valid through June 30.
Rates at the resort, for a two-bedroom, two-bath villa start at $300, and include Internet and free phone calls to the United States and Canada. For more info, visit www.bahamabeachclub.com, or call 800-284-0382.
St. Lucia resort chops prices
All-inclusive Morgan Bay Beach Resort on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, now part of Elite Island Resorts, is offering pretty deep discounts on stays booked by April 8, good for travel from now through Dec. 20. The offer is $119 per person per night, with a free automatic category room upgrade ($50 value) from standard to deluxe category, and 50 percent off your next vacation. The resort's regular rates are about $340 a night, per person, based on double occupancy. Other room upgrades are available starting at $25 per person. Additional guests can be booked for $75 per adult per night, and $50 per child, ages 2-16.
Morgan Bay Beach Resort sits on 25 acres in a private cove on the northern coast of St. Lucia. For more information, visit http://www.eliteislandresorts.com/st-lucia/morganbay/index.html or call 800-858-4618.
Multi-generational and group travel an emerging trend
Traveling in groups isn't limited to families, either. Luxury travel operator Abercrombie & Kent also reported that 11 percent of its reservations in 2011 were for groups of five more, compared to eight percent the year before.
As might be expected, resorts are focusing on the large-group angle, creating programs and specialties for families and those traveling with a crowd. The all-inclusive Curtain Bluff Resort in Antigua is running a multi-gen package valid from May 15-July 28, based on two interconnecting junior suites for seven nights, and includes private sunset sail on a 49-foot sail boat; private family cocktail party at The Bluff House; and photographer for family portrait, to include CD of the shots, for a cost of $8,950. Additional junior suites are available at $4,325 for the week. Check it out at www.curtainbluff.com
Villas are ideal for family travelers and on the 1,400-acre private island of Mustique in the Grenadines, there are 74 rentable villas, from two to nine bedrooms, fetching anywhere from $6,000 to $150,000 a week. Mustique's only resort, the Cotton House, has 17 suites and babysitting services. Anyone staying on the island has access to nine beaches and a downtown market, and kid activities including pony camp, tennis camp, sailing classes and movie nights. Check it all out at www.mustique-island.com and www.cottonhouse.net
In Turks and Caicos, the upscale The Somerset on Grace Bay has 53 villas and estates and new this year is the "Caicos Kids Club," a free program for kids ages five to 12 and run by certified teachers from a local school, a day program that offers a variety of changing, kid-friendly activities. They also have a group kids' dinner on select evenings to give their parents some alone time. Rates at the resort, with accommodations ranging from 1,400 to 5,000 square feet, start at $900 a night. For more info, visit www.thesomerset.com
Zora of St. Thomas makes way for parking garage?
Cruise ship passengers arriving in Charlotte Amalie, USVI sometimes miss Zora Galvin's little shop on Norre Gade, because they have just enough time to prowl the beautifully restored Royal Dane, Palm Passage and Riise Alley shops, and be seated for lunch at Gladys's Cafe. (The line for Gladys's Caribbean homestyle plates runs out the door of # 28A Dronningens Gade and far down the alley.) Zora's is located a little off the beaten path west of the mall, and her most famous wares -- custom-fitted, handmade leather sandals and limin' shoes -- take two days to complete. After over 50 years and thousands of customers, the historic storefront shared by two other businesses was to be torn down for a new parking garage, according to a Virgin Islands Daily News report.
"They can't tear down the building. It is historical," Galvin responded in an e-mail.
If the new structure goes forward, will Zora's relocate within it, or elsewhere? If you're headed to St. Thomas, it's worth the time and a few extra blocks for sandals that fit and last a lifetime. Now more than ever.
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Renaissance Aruba named best hotel
The Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino was named Aruba's Best hotel by Monarc.ca, the largest database of hotel reviews in Canada. The AAA 4-Diamond resort was picked as the "Best Resort in Aruba" for having the best views, quality-to-price ratio, and restaurants of any other resort on the island. The resort is located in the middle of the island's capital city, Oranjestad, and also has a 40-acre private island open exclusively to resort guests, located off shore and accessible by boats that leave the resort every 15 minutes. The resort has 15 restaurants, two casinos, a six-theater cinema, and a 3,500-square-foot spa. Monarc.ca rates more than 1,000 hotels in the most popular sun destinations for Canadian travelers and last year compiled more than 47,000 reviews and ratings to establish a list of best-rated establishments as voted by monarc.ca members.
Jamaica hosts Caribbean Yoga Conference
Jamaica is hosting its first ever Caribbean Yoga Conference Feb. 2-5 in Montego Bay, bringing together people from around the world who are inspired by the practice of yoga. Instructors will include Seane Corn, Simon Park, Toni Bergins and Sadie Nardini, and the music of MC Yogi and his band.
Workshops will be offered for all abilities.
Behind it all is Kim Moon, who first started by developing a yoga consulting business, Bella Luna Yoga, offering resorts help with creating yoga programs, kicking off with places like Club Med.
The latest one with Jamaica includes a community outreach component: In partnership with Shakti Mind Body Fitness in Kingston, Jamaica, the conference will give a Shakti Love Scholarship, inviting Jamaican youth counselors, social workers and teachers to the conference at no cost.
The conference cost is $345 per person, and it will be at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa in Montego Bay, which is offering a noninclusive group room rate of $239.93 a night to conference participants (the resort's usual all-inclusive rate is $291 for a single room, $343 for double occupancy). Conference cost includes all events, selected classes, morning meditations, noon yoga sessions, evening events and keynote and closing addresses. For information, visit http://caribbeanyogaconference.com/
A 100-year event in Barbados
Pack your bags! Haley's Comet is visible from earth once every 75 years, but the flowering of the Talipot palm in Barbados's Andromeda Gardens is a 100-year event. Thanks to local Patrick Watson for the photo of this fan palm beauty, whose stalk bearing a million clustered flowers is the largest of any plant in the world.
Andromeda Gardens clings to a hillside of Bathsheba in St. Joseph parish facing the aqua windward sea. Iris Bannochie started it with her husband John on eight 18th century acres of family land, returning from her world travels with seeds and seedlings in her pockets to which the customs authorities turned a blind eye. Perhaps the Talipot, a native of southern India, came to Barbados that way. The personal, often whimsical garden was bequeathed to the Barbados National Trust which Bannochie helped found. Basheba's other attractions -- the iconic Soup Bowl for surfers and long, golden Cattlewash beach -- are a breezy downhill walk from here. Across the road from the ocean you'll find Sea Side rum shop with a sociable crowd and wonderful cutters (sandwiches).
But you'll have to hurry. The Talipot blooms only once, then dies.
Andromeda Gardens
Admission: US $10
Phone: (246) 433-9261 or (246) 433-9384
Nisbet Plantation Beach Club in Caribbean offer free-night deal in Jan.
Nisbet Plantation Beach Club on Nevis, in the Caribbean West Indies, is offering a "January Thaw" deal this month, giving a free night on a six-night stay in cottage-style accommodations for two. Package rates start at $3,350 per couple include full daily breakfast, daily afternoon tea, nightly three-course dinners at the AAA Four Diamond-rated Great House, built in 1778, and airport transfers from Nevis or sister island, St. Kitts.
Usual amenities at the resort, accorded the title of one of the world’s best by Travel + Leisure, Conde Naste Traveler and TripAdvisor.com, include the use of Flip digital cameras, kayaks and snorkeling gear, and resort-wide WiFi. The resort has 36 cottage-style accommodations on 30 acres.
For information and booking, visit http://www.nisbetplantation.com or call 800-742-6008.
Spend Thanksgiving in Grand Cayman
Included in the $890 per night special rate are accommodations in a Cayman-inspired beach cottage, with full kitchen, free Wi-Fi and roomy living spaces; the option of booking a spa treatment in an open-air pavilion surrounded by sea grape trees; pre-stocked selection of coffees, water, tea, milk, juice and assorted cereals; use of the swimming pool, fitness center, yoga, bicycles, media library, water sports, hiking, and culinary and art classes; and one-way airport transfer. Concierge, in-cottage catering, sommelier and wedding and business services are also available, at extra cost, to further customize a holiday.
Cotton
Tree is on the northernmost point of Grand Cayman, 10 minutes from the island’s
fabled Seven Mile Beach. To make a reservation or for more information, visit http://www.caymancottontree.com/
and mention promotion code CT375 when booking the Thanksgiving special.
(Photo courtesy of Cotton Tree)
Saint Lucia launches health and wellness retreat
Taking place in the island town of Soufriere, the retreat cost is $1,000. Participants buying before Oct. 15 get a $200 discount. Several area luxury accommodations are also offering special packages, including Jalousie Plantation, Fond Doux Holiday Plantation, Still Beach House, Hummingbird Beach Resort, Stonefield Estate Villa Resort & Spa, La Haut Plantation, Hotel Chocolat, Ladera Resort, Anse Chastanet Resort, Jade Mountain and Mago Estate Hotel.
The retreat will be structured around a series of seminars from people like Iyengar yoga teacher John Schumacher, feng shui consultant William Spear and Dr. Stephen Brewer, medical director at Canyon Ranch in Tucson. Participants can take part in yoga and feng shui workshops, pottery, art and photography classes, or get more active with hiking, climbing the famous Piton Mountains, kayaking, biking, snorkeling and bird watching. Guests can also indulge in spa treatments, starting with the fabled mineral and mud baths in Soufriere. Lunch will be an interactive event with local chefs
For more information, visit www.saintluciahealthandwellnessretreat.com
Resorts offer Veterans' Day deals
Red Mountain Resort in St. George,
Utah, is giving active or retired military packages like two 50-minute massages,
an adventure trip to Zion National Park, and a discount for a retreat package
of three nights or more, all with the price of $111.11 each. The offer is good
for the month of November. Visit www.redmountainresort.com, or call 877-246-4453.
The Reefs in Southampton,
Bermuda, celebrates Veterans Day and the 11/11/11 date by offering travelers
booking a four-night stay, including Nov. 11, a rate of $11.11 for their room
on that night. Active duty and retired military members get an additional
15-percent off with valid military ID shown at check-in. Rates here start at
$410 a night, and include ocean-view accommodations and full daily breakfast
for two. For information, call 800-742-2008 or visit www.thereefs.com
Sandals and Beaches Resorts in Jamaica, Antigua, the Bahamas, Saint Lucia and Turks & Caicos honor the military with a special discount program, in which active and retired military get the usual military price break, plus an additional 10 percent this year, combinable with the current “Up to 65-percent Off” and “Free Night Stays” at any of their properties. Check it out at 866-726-3257 or by
visiting www.sandals.com
Norfolk, Va., is home to one of the largest naval bases in the country, and is honoring vets this year by hosting the inaugural Norfolk Freedom Half Marathon from Nov. 11-13, to raise awareness and support for the needs of vets and their families. The event includes a health and fitness expo Nov. 11-12, and a wheelchair invitational event and a Wounded Warrior and Family Run on Nov. 13. Events start at $65 for adults, $15 for kids. For information, call 800-368-3097 or visit www.visitnorfolktoday.com
For 11 days, starting Nov. 11, guests can reserve an ocean-front, two-bedroom
penthouse suite at the Atlantic Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale for $1,111.11 a night, a 20-percent price break. Other savings there are $11 per night valet parking and $11 in-room movies. Reference promo code is OCN11. To book, call 877-567-8020.
You get a $111 spending credit at Rayavadee, in Krabi, Thailand if you book and stay there before Nov. 11. Credit is good for spa treatments, food, drinks and select activities. For information, call 011 66 75 620740-3 or visit www.rayavadee.com
Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., is offering a variety of specials, including an $11 IMAX ticket to see “Real Steel,” with Hugh Jackman, an $11.11 one-pound bag of breakfast blend coffee from its Starbucks, and 11 percent off regularly priced items at Old Farmer’s Almanac, the resort’s old-fashioned general store. Check it out at www.tropicana.net or call 800-465-3222.
Planters Inn, in Charleston, S.C., is offering a two-night package for $1,111.11, which includes a stay in the Relais & Chateaux hotel’s luxurious Plantation King Room with its full living room and huge Italian-marble bath. Check it out at www.plantersinn.com or call 843-722-2345.
Club Mobay a new Jamaican airport respite
I travel a lot, but don't belong to any airline club because it costs too much and luckily most of my layover time in airports isn't that long. But in Jamaica recently, I heard about Club Mobay (Mobay is local colloquial for Montego Bay), at Sangster International Airport, a VIP lounge for all passengers that opened up in April, with another, Club Kingston, which opened in August at Manley Airport in Kingston.
I had a couple hours to kill and for $30, Mobay was the place to do it (it's free if you're a member of Priority Pass, Airport Angels or
Diner's Club, or a first-class or business-class ticket holder on several partner airlines). The clubs, under the umbrella of VIP Attractions, are the brainchild of former Digicel CEO David Hall, who founded them with business partner Carlos Moleon, the duo investing $170 million to carve out unused space into really spectacular airport lounges.
For your money you get a myriad of things, besides super-comfortable surroundings in four lounge areas at Mobay that have cozy rattan furnishings. You get food snacks, fruit, sandwiches), coffee, tea, soda and booze, and there's a mini-spa on site (costs extra) and a shower to freshen up.
FULL ENTRYGreat Inagua in pictures
Globe reader Jim Heath wrote to me recently in an e-mail: "I recently came across your article about your brief stay at Great Inagua island. I am retired from the Coast Guard and have fond memories of the island, but little else. I was wondering if you had a photo share site or some other means that I could view photographs of the island and it’s wonderful people."
Jim, this photo montage is for you and Great Inagua.
Midnight madness sale at Alexander Hotel
REDjet rising
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First it was $9.99 for a one-way ticket from Barbados to Guyana; then Barbados to Trinidad. Now the Caribbean's first low-cost carrier REDJet is reportedly breaking open a Latin American route that will take St. Lucians or Bajans cheaply and directly to Panama CIty to go shopping.
What might that mean for America? For one, with Panama City's fabled bargains a cheap flight away, Caribbean residents would no longer look to Miami for those weekend shopping sprees. For another, the Caribbean and lower Americas could become viable for the kind of multiple destination jaunts that former inter-island air passes promised but didn't deliver. (For example, a Caribbean Airlines flight from Barbados to Kingston, Jamaica can cost as much as $420.)
The REDjet promise is that "Your final payment amount depends entirely on you." Plan ahead, choose off-peak days, and book at their airport ticket desk, and the airline guarantees a one-way flight will cost $9.99 plus taxes.
Will Caribbean islanders finally be freed from over-pricing? Stay tuned.
Now, if only I could get to Barbados this Christmas for under $650 ...
Diving deal offered in USVI
Chill recipe from Jamaica
Was it actually cooler in Jamaica than Boston at the end of last week? An e-mail from Jason Henzell said it was. My thermometer showed it to be 101.6 degrees F in Beantown on Friday, versus 82 degrees F at his place, Jake's Resort, in Treasure Beach. There must be something about the Caribbean Sea that keeps things cool down there on the south coast.
Jason offered this homemade watermelon sorbet recipe as a pity present to help us chill. It's delicious, although I must say, Jason, we're a little annoyed with you for rubbing it in!
Jakes Homemade Watermelon Sorbet
1. Place following ingredients into a mixing bowl:
- 4 cups of seeded watermelon (We recommend buying organic. Jakes uses only local produce, and we want this to taste as close to the real deal as possible!)
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/2 lemon (peeled)
- 4 cups of ice
2. Blend at low and increase to high for 30 seconds until stiff peaks form. Serve immediately.
St. Thomas Sea Trek earns top honor
Sea Trek at Coral World Ocean Park in St. Thomas has earned the "Most Outstanding Sea Trek Operation for 2010" among 41 Sea Trek operations around the world, from Sub Sea Systems Inc., the entity that licenses them.
Sea Trek fits participants in a helmet attached to an air hose and which keeps the head dry, as they breathe normally and get a diver's-eye view of life underwater without having to be a certified diver. You also get gloves and booties to wear and you won't be alone down there: Besides the sea creatures swimming around, there's a professional guide with you at all times.
Photo courtesy of Coral World Ocean Park
Where in the world?
Three guesses where this picture was taken: No, No and No. It’s the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica where I stayed during a sustainable tourism conference. This particular view is the Rooftop Spa where magicians buff your skin with Blue Mountain coffee and brown sugar. You probably didn’t think Kingston looked like this, did you?
Much of it doesn’t. But Christopher Issa from a wealthy Jamaican business family turned a former shopping plaza on New Kingston’s St. Lucia Ave. into this hip small hotel, a Kingston first. (And trust me, it is a first, judging by my rounds of various 1970s-style lodgings on Knutsford Boulevard’s hotel row.) My conference friends who stayed elsewhere were exceedingly jealous. After hours of panel discussions, they were only too glad to kick back next to the pool on the hotel’s rooftop Sky Terrace with Appleton rum cocktails under the stars.
Spanish Court’s optimistic 2009 launch came at a time when the tourism economy was tanking worldwide and Kingston’s drug gang violence was at a peak. Unphased, Issa poured millions into the property and promoted 360 Kingston attractions either in or near the city. To those who say crime makes Kingston unsafe to visit, Issa said, “It would be a crime not to.”
As a cultural traveler, I agree.
Drums are Jamaica's heartbeat
The headliner band had gone home, the DJ was taking a break, and 2,000 Jamaicans in the audience had wandered off for fish and festivals at Jack Sprat’s on Treasure Beach. But that didn’t stop the music, as two young drummers spontaneously combusted on an empty grandstand, playing real good for free.
Spiritually as well as musically, Jamaica can be explored through its drumbeats, whether buying souvenir hand drums in Negril, or experiencing a kumina ritual on a guided tour with Maroghini, former percussionist for reggae icon Jimmy Cliff.
Thanks to a new wrinkle in Jamaica’s tourism, Rastafarian drums and drumbeats are part of a groundswell of Rasta homestays and tours. Even the famously remote hideouts of the Maroons (runaway African slaves and Taino Indians) have a new website – and an opportunity to hear drums in the communities of Accompong, Scotts Hall and Moore Town.
Too lazy to leave the beach? Try a local radio station on your smartphone. Jamaica’s drums are everywhere!
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