FEMALE INTERVIEWER TALKS WITH MEMBERS OF A TRADITIONAL STEEL-DRUM ORCHESTRA FROM ST. KITTS IN CARTEGENA- STEVEN HEWLETT, CAPTAIN OF THE BAND, WITH IAN HUTCH, TERRANCE BYRON. THEY DISCUSS DISCUSS HOW THE STEEL DRUMS CAME TO THE ISLAND IN THE LATE 1940'S, HOW THE BASIC STEEL DRUM BEAT WAS DERIVED IN AFRICA ORIGINALLY AND DERIVED ON THE DRUMS. THEY TALK ABOUT HOW THE DRUMS ARE SET UP AND HOW THE ARRANGEMENTS ARE WORKED OUT.

THEY TALK ABOUT HOW THEY WERE ASKED BY THEIR GOVERNMENT TO ATTEND THE FESTIVAL AS AMBASSADORS, AND HOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSIC IN JAMAICA HJAS GONE ON A DIFFERENT PATH FROM THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN.