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High notes to end Bocas Lit Fest evenings Mervyn Morris - Despite continued restrictions on gatherings, the 2021 NGC Bocas Lit Fest will stay true to its usual social and cultural evening fare in its 2021 all-virtual festival. The three festival days – April 23-25 – all close with engaging celebrations of music, Caribbean literature, and prize-winners’ announcements. After a decade of annual literary celebration, festival-goers have become accustomed to nightly wrap-up sessions fitting o...

RIFF: The Shake Keane Story, a biography of the Vincentian musician and poet, was launched during a virtual event on January 28   Watch the launch of the book here: Its author, Philip Nanton, will appear at the Bocas LitFest on April 23 at 8 pm. St Lucian writer John Robert Lee, interviewed him.  What inspired you to write this biography of Shake Keane? Is it a first biography of Keane? The short answer is that Shake’s life contained many elements of a good story: up from humble beginnings ...

Philip Nanton, author of RIFF: The Shane Keane Story will appear at the Boca Lit Fest. - RIFF: The Shake Keane Story, a biography of the Vincentian musician and poet, was launched during a virtual event on January 28 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANehsC28xoI)Author Its author Philip Nanton will appear at the Bocas LitFest on April 23 at 8 pm. St Lucian writer John Robert Lee, interviewed him. Q: What inspired you to write this biography of Shake Keane? Is it a first biography of Keane?...

The Shake Keane riff: genius of Vincentian jazz musician Riff: The Shake Keane Story by Philip Nanton - Shake Keane is another musical genius, hardly known in his native Caribbean. He died in Norway in 1997, undeservedly unrecognised by most of us, because, like so many of our other impressive artists, musicians, writers and performers of the last century who strutted across the international stage, contributing to the new era of music and entertainment, he lived a life that was hard to keep t...

“The thing split Good Friday in two And that good new morning groaned and snapped like breaking an old habit (The Volcano Suite – Shake Keane) With the volcano acting up as we say I imagine that many persons, particularly those in the foothills of the volcano, will be thinking about and hoping that on Friday we will not have a repeat of that fateful event, 42 years ago. I …

In a chapter captioned “The View from Tiffany’s Lounge” the author looks at Shake’s New York experience, the US being his final port of migration. Tiffany’s Lounge which was near to his place of residence, was where he spent much of his time, a spot whose patrons became subjects and inspiration for his poetry. It was one of the low points of his life. His illegal status affected his ability …

The Shake Keane Story (Part 2) Social Share The Shake Keane Story provides not only narrative but analyses his poetry, and jazz, paying particular attention to the link between his poetry and jazz. The author describes the political context which Shake seemed to have underestimated or misunderstood. He left St. Vincent one year after Adult Suffrage and was unfamiliar with the development of party politics. His fate as director of culture was sealed because of his relationship with ...