[Caribbean Musicians\St. Kitts & Nevis]
Each Music Talk program highlights the contributions and celebrates the achievements of some of the region’s leading musicians, who will serve as mentors to the young musicians. The program hopes to stimulate emerging musicians to pursue careers in the music business and to find pathways to success through mentorship and artistic development.
Photo: OECS
The fourth installment of the OECS Music Talk continues in St. Kitts and Nevis today, Thursday 23 January, from 6:00 pm at the UWI Open Campus, The Gardens, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis. The show will highlight musical talent like Azem "Royal" Bailey above.
The OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States) Competitive Business Unit’s (CBU) Music Mentorship and Artiste Development Programme will feature a strong panel of well-known music professionals representing various aspects of the music industry in St. Kitts and Nevis, along with a guest presenter from Martinique.
The OECS Music Talk is a program conceptualized by the OECS CBU that targets emerging musical talent in the OECS and connects musicians 30 years and under with well-established and experienced music professionals in a series of discussions across Member States.
Each Music Talk program highlights the contributions and celebrates the achievements of some of the region’s leading musicians, who will serve as mentors to the young musicians. The program hopes to stimulate emerging musicians to pursue careers in the music business and to find pathways to success through mentorship and artistic development.
The St. Kitts and Nevis Music Talk is being coordinated by the St. Kitts and Nevis Association for the Performing Arts (SKNAPA) in partnership with Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO) Inc., The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus (St. Kitts and Nevis), The Intellectual Property Office of St. Kitts and Nevis (IPOSKN); and Screen IT – using the template developed and provided by the OECS CBU.
In commenting on the event, Vernalderine Francis, ROOCOO Co-Owner who is also a founding member of SKNAPA and Chairperson of ECCO remarked:
“We are delighted to be working with the CBU to host the Music Talk Programme in St. Kitts and Nevis," said Francis. "This is a continuation of our work with the CBU to build a solid foundation and to strengthen the music ecosystem in St. Kitts and Nevis. We firmly believe that Music Talk will contribute to inspiring our young musicians, and music professionals in general, to examine how they conduct their business and to look at new ways to produce and market quality music to the region and the world.”
“We are also extremely pleased that we will be joined by veteran Martinican producer, Fred Jn. Baptiste, who will speak on his experience working in that market. We are hoping that Fred will join us in March to work with our producers and to provide skills and knowledge to help them with their music production as well as to learn how to create music to target the French West Indies market,” added Francis.
The St. Kitts and Nevis Music Talk will feature six of the island’s top music professionals in the persons of Michael “Stokes” Hyliger, Collin Wyatt, King Socrates, Gregory "Mr Mention" Hobson, Azem “Royal” Bailey and Hansil “Richie” Buntin. Martinican music producer Fred Jn. Baptiste, is the featured speaker and will speak on the development of the music industry in the French West Indies.
OECS Music Talk is part of the CBU overall program to enhance the competitiveness of the creative industries sector and to provide support to MSMEs in the sector to increase their exports of creative goods and services to global markets.
About OECS Music Talk:
The OECS Music Talk is the first of a three-phased Mentorship and Artiste Development program being undertaken by the CBU in an effort to help inspire a new generation of musicians to realize their dreams to become music professionals. The program hopes to stimulate emerging musicians to pursue careers in the music business and to find pathways to success through mentorship and artistic development. Phase two of the program will focus on a more structured mentorship program with mentees in each member states being offered with critical advice, guidelines to building their music careers and new knowledge to encourage them to develop proper habits and professional approaches to becoming successful musicians. The third phase will involve a coaching program for a select group of mentees drawn from across Member States where they would receive coaching and artistic training from skilled music professionals. The third phase will also attempt to develop the necessary skills in these emerging musical talents to prepare them for the regional and global music markets.
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