St. George’s, July 21, 2010 (GIS) – Junior Culture Minister, Senator Arley Gill, has paid glowing tribute to the local cultural delegation that represented Grenada at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China.
“Our cultural artists did us proud. They were simply fantastic,’’ Sen. Gill told the Government Information Service on his return to Grenada.
The contingent of artists included multiple award-winning calypsonian, Edson “Ajamu” Mitchell, and Royal Grenada Police Force Band Master, Brian Hurst.
Among the engagements of Grenada’s musicians and dancers, who included poet and drummer, Nigel De Gale, and the Bel Air folk group, was their participation in CARICOM Day activities. Their performance was witnessed by hundreds of guests, including Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and his wife, Sandra; President Nicholas Liverpool of the Commonwealth of Dominica; and CARICOM Secretary General, Dr Edwin Carrington.
Other performances included a steel orchestra from Trinidad and Tobago; Barbadian limbo dancing; dancers from Haiti and a Jamaican reggae band.
Grenada also staged two full-length performances in the American Square in Shanghai.
