60 Years of Carnival: A history of Steel Pan pioneer Jit Samaroo

This special African Odysseys event is presented as part of Windrush International Caribbean Film Festival for the 20th anniversary of African Odysseys monthly Black history film series

60 years of Carnival — Steel pan and the Jit Samaroo story Plus Q&A

The official WICFF Film festival continues with the untold story of Trinidadian pan legend Dr Jit Samaroo. Founder of the Samaroo Jets and the only arranger to win eight National Panorama Large Band titles with BP Renegades, Samaroo is presented not only as a champion arranger, but as a teacher, innovator and global ambassador for the national instrument

Jit Samaroo’s quiet, humble and virtuosic nature has meant that, while he helped to establish the musical precedent by which modern steelpan now lives, his life and journey is surprisingly unarchived, especially on video,” said director Michael Gibbing
Watch trailer HERE

Plus three short films: Entitled by Adeyemi Michaels , Roots by Don Letts and Pan Gyul by Juliette Jeffers

Other coming events ww.blackhistorywalks.co.uk HERE

• 60 years of Black British Civil Rights Professor Gus John

• Black history of Comedy and racism @BFI Update

• Trinidadian World War 2 Hero Ulric Cross

• Frantz Fanon weekender

• 20 years of African Odysseys: 19,000 people sign the petition

• We Were there Black Africans in Renaissance Art (1400s)

• Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies

• Mayfair, Hackney, Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks

• In search of Mami Wata : African Spirituality

• Black Liverpool film and book launch with Professor Stephen Small

These events are organised by Black History Walks as part of 61 Years Since 1965, the first ever Race Relations Act, and 20 years of the African Odysseys film series (2007) HERE