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Sheppy The Concert promises to mesmerise

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Artistes for Sheppie The Concert in descending order: Darren Sheppard, host, Moricia Cagan, Sherma Andrews, Alicia Jaggasar and Vaughnette Bigford.

Artistes for Sheppie The Concert in descending order: Darren Sheppard, host, Moricia Cagan, Sherma Andrews, Alicia Jaggasar and Vaughnette Bigford.

SAN­DRA L BLOOD

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The 220th Com­mon­wealth Point of Light hon­oree of Her Roy­al High­ness Queen Eliz­a­beth II—head of the Com­mon­wealth, di­rec­tor and arranger for the NL­CB Fon­claire Steel Or­ches­tra, Dar­ren Shep­pard, said he and his four-man cast are prepar­ing to mes­merise pa­trons on Au­gust 26, with his event that cel­e­brates his liv­ing, Shep­py The Con­cert, at Na­pari­ma Bowl—The Cul­tur­al Soul of South The Cul­tur­al Soul of South—9-21 Par­adise Pas­ture, San Fer­nan­do, from 8-11 pm with gates to be opened at 7pm.

Al­so to be fea­tured are in­ter­na­tion­al parang queen, Ali­cia Jag­gasar, for­mer Miss T&T Tal­ent, song­writer and artiste, Mori­cia Ca­gan, jazz R&B and pop singer, song­writer, pi­anist, record­ing artiste Sher­ma An­drews, jazz con­nois­seur Vaugh­nette Big­ford, and NL­CB Fon­claire Steel Or­ches­tra.

Shep­pard is cel­e­brat­ing his 50th birth­day and has been a loy­al mem­ber of Fon­claire Steel Or­ches­tra for 42 of those years.

Ear­li­er this year, Shep­pard was iden­ti­fied for his ex­cep­tion­al vol­un­tary ser­vice ex­tend­ed to chil­dren, youth and se­niors via his pan mu­sic ed­u­ca­tion pro­grammes, said a British re­lease, where in ex­cess of 1,000 chil­dren span­ning schools in south Trinidad ben­e­fit­ted.

The award will be pre­sent­ed to Shep­pard at Fon­claire’s pa­n­yard on Au­gust 23 at 6pm by the British High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T, Har­ri­et Cross.

The Com­mon­wealth Points of Light awards ap­pre­ci­ates and cel­e­brates acts by vol­un­teers rep­re­sent­ing the 54 Com­mon­wealth na­tions, in­spir­ing oth­ers to do well and as­sist­ing in bet­ter­ment on a whole. One vol­un­teer per week is recog­nised.

The lone steel orchestra for Sheppie The Concert, NLCB Fonclaire Steel Orchestra, performs at an event with musical arranger, director Darren Sheppard, left, playing the tenor.

The lone steel orchestra for Sheppie The Concert, NLCB Fonclaire Steel Orchestra, performs at an event with musical arranger, director Darren Sheppard, left, playing the tenor.

Shep­pard said the award doesn’t on­ly shine a light on him, but al­so on the mag­nif­i­cent pow­er of T&T’s steel­pan mu­sic and the amaz­ing com­mu­ni­ty that gave birth to “our” steel­band.

He said he con­tin­u­ous­ly thanks God for be­ing at the cen­tre of his work, and will al­so for­ev­er thank Her Majesty, Queen Eliz­a­beth II for the re­spec­tive ho­n­our be­stowed up­on him.

In a re­lease from the British High Com­mis­sion, High Com­mis­sion­er Cross said she will be de­light­ed to present Shep­pard with the award on be­half of Her Roy­al Majesty.

She de­scribed Shep­pard as “an ad­mirable ex­am­ple of some­one who works con­tin­u­ous­ly to em­pow­er his com­mu­ni­ty through his work with young peo­ple. In ad­di­tion to high­light­ing Dar­ren’s work which dri­ves pos­i­tive change in San Fer­nan­do, I hope this award in­spires peo­ple to ded­i­cate them­selves to im­prov­ing their own com­mu­ni­ties and their coun­try.”


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