The Current Season


Baaba Maal with his 13 Piece Orchestra featuring Mansour Seck
Saturday-Sunday March 8-9, 1997, $30, $20, $12
From Senegal comes Baaba Maal's contemporary music, imbued with the purity of Fulani musical traditions and the cutting edge of contemporary Western music. His extraordinary performances are punctuated by elevating melodies, melancholy tones and remarkable rhythms.
STARfest III
Saturday & Sunday, May 10-11 & 17-18, 1997 - $25, $12, $8
The annual V.I. Talent Extravaganza is back, continuing to feature the island's best performers in a production you won't want to miss.


Reichhold Caribbean Repertory Theater Series


An Echo in the Bone
Fri-Mon, July 11-14, 1997 - $20
Mr. Charles, a white estate owner, has been killed and his presumed murderer is a black peasant farmer called Crew. Crew's wife Rachel believes he too is dead and in keeping with her religion holds for him a nine night ceremony, a standard death ritual that is practiced in Afro-Caribbean religions. Did Crew kill the estate owner and then himself? If so, why and how? The answers lie deep in racial memry, the echo in the bone, and throught the death ritual and possession ceremonies. The past is explored and the answers sought.

Man/Woman Business by Edgar White
Fri-Mon, July 25-28, 1997 - $20
The contemporary, romantic Caribbean-American musical speaks to every immigrant woman and man forced into a new environment and faced with the stresses of maintaining family unity and social and personal adjustment and adaptation.

Marilyn by David Edgecombe
Fri-Mon, August 8-11, 1997 - $20
Five persons, who together survive the powerful hurricane and its aftermath, meet years later to relive the experience. Is there some important message they have missed? Their lives and circumstances have all since changed and present realities make it difficult fo them to heed what seems to obvious message of the hurricane.

Past Events

Paquito D'Rivera & the United Nation Orchestra
Saturday, October 12, 1996 - $30, $20, $12
Founded by Dizzy Gillespie to showcase the various cultural influences that shape jazz, the U.N. Orchestra celebrates cultural diversity through the "oneness of music." African, Cuban, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Brazilian influences within the jazz tapestry are skillfully woven by the genre's outstanding young musicians from seven different countries.

Haworth Shakespeare Festival with Members of The Royal
Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre of
Great Britain in Romeo & Juliet

Friday-Saturday, November 8-9, 1996 - $40, $15, $5
An exciting, contemporary conception of Shakespeare's classic masterpiece set in South Africa. The universal themes of teenagae rebellion, youthful passions and first love are explored in new ways that resonate within our hearts and within our community.

The Howard Universtiy Alumni Club of St. Thomas & St. John
presents the The Howard University Choir

Saturday, November 23, 1996 - $50, $30, $20
The Washington Post called them "mesmerizingly beautiful." This famed choir has performed nationally and abroad for U.S. Presidents and at Notre Dame in Paris, and featured in TV specials with Leontyn Price. Come and be mesmerized by a repertoire that ranges from Bach's Mass in B Minor to traditional Negro spirituals and work songs.

National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
Saturday & Sunday Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 1996 - $35, $20, $12
Celebrating the rich heritage of the Caribbean through modern dance, the National Dance Theatre Company has become international ambassadors of Jamaican culture. Their signature pieces vibrantly symbolize the stuggles and triumphs of the Caribbean people.

New Year's Eve with Boston Pops
Traveling Ensemble featuring Rhythm and Brass

Awadagin Pratt-Classical Pianist
Saturday, January 25, 1997 - $40, $15, $5
One of classical music's most brilliant new stars, Awadagin Pratt combines technical mastery and emotional depth to create an evening of beautiful music and magnificent artistry.
Presented by the Birch Forum

4th Annual Virgin Islands Music Awards
Saturday, February 8, 1997 - $25, $15
The VI Calypso Association honors the achievements of the Virgin Islands musicians in all genres of composition and performance. Come celebrate the accomplishments of your fellow Virgin Islanders.
Sponsored by the VI Calypso Association.

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