The internationally-renowned Kanneh-Masons musical family and members of the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra (ABYSO) thrilled the audience at a special performance at the Mill Reef Club on Saturday night.
Dubbed ‘An Evening of Music’, the concert featured all seven siblings of the Kanneh-Masons family performing several classical music pieces together, or duets and even solos displaying their mastery of their several instruments, violin, piano and cello.
Guests including the Governor General, Sir Rodney Williams and Lady Williams and the Antigua and Barbuda UK High Commissioner, Karen-Mae Hill along with members of the Miff Reef Club and other invited guests enjoyed a lovely evening enjoying the musical renditions, all of which were performed at a particularly high standard.
Also performing were members of the ABYSO who performed four contemporary musical pieces which demonstrated their growth as musicians. All in all, it was a wonderful evening for all.
HC Hill said the performance at Mill Reef Club is one way of showing appreciation to members of the Club who have been major sponsors of the Kanneh-Masons musical tours to Antigua and Barbuda for the seven years that they have been performing in the country. “The Mill Reef Club, along with Jumby Bay, have been with us since 2017 and this concert that we do here every year is about saying thanks to them and to show how their investments have been used, to show the growth of the young people as well as to expose our young people to performing before mix audiences and to know that their place in the world is not defined by geography or race, but that they are children of the universe,” she remarked.
The performance comes one week ahead of the annual must-see event, Playing to Inspire Seven, which takes place at the St. John’s Pentecostal Church’s House of Restoration on Saturday April 12 and which will feature a number of guest performances.
