The Steelers from Treviglas Academy in Newquay play to 1200 primary schoolchildren at the Hall For Cornwall to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the Windrush generation
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00:00Very quickly, I've always wanted to try this with more than five children, okay, so let's try something.
00:08Ogi ogi ogi! Oi oi oi!
00:11Ogi ogi ogi! Oi oi oi!
00:15Ogi! Oi! Ogi! Oi!
00:18Ogi ogi ogi! Oi oi oi!
00:22Have you had a good day? Yeah? Fabulous.
00:27Well, welcome, welcome to the Black Voices Cornwall first ever celebration of Windrush Day.
00:35It's great to see so many of you here today.
00:38I'm going to count to three and you're going to shout out the name of your school.
00:42One, two, three.
00:47I heard St Mary's.
00:50Noise on at the back there.
00:53Well, we are here. We are here to celebrate Windrush today.
00:57I know some of you have taken part of some fantastic activities.
01:01There has been some art workshops going on, some music and movement workshops.
01:06There's been some really impactful conversations going on.
01:11It's really important for people like myself and some of my team at Black Voices Cornwall to celebrate Windrush
01:18because we are part of the Windrush generation.
01:22So, my grandparents, some 75 years ago, came over from the Caribbean
01:30and that's why I am here in Britain today.
01:34I've lived in Britain all my life. I've been in Cornwall for most of my life
01:38so it's really, really pleased to be here with you.
01:41Are any of you reading any special books about Windrush at the moment?
01:47Lots of hands.
01:50What are we reading?
01:52What are we reading?
01:54Windrush generation?
01:56The Windrush Child?
01:58Anyone else reading Windrush Child?
02:00Fabulous. Great, great.
02:02Give me a cheer if you think this is a brilliant book.
02:05Fabulous.
02:07Give me a louder cheer if you were part of the workshops today.
02:15Fabulous. I'm really enjoying making some noise.
02:18So, you've probably noticed a few people behind me with some fantastic instruments.
02:26These are steel pans. These are the Steelers. Give us a big cheer for the Steelers.
02:35So, apparently you've got to sing along a bit later on as well.
02:41So, the Steelers are a 25 piece band. Have you got 25? Have a quick count up.
02:54So, slightly fewer than 25 but there are no refunds.
02:59No refunds today.
03:01So, how long do you think the Steelers have been going for?
03:09Somebody said 25 years down the front here. Who was it?
03:12All of you. Great.
03:14They have been going indeed for 25 years.
03:17They are from Trafiglas Academy.
03:22This is a really special moment for me for a number of reasons.
03:26My grandad, when he came over, brought one of his steel pans with him from the Caribbean and used to play.
03:33And it's still in our family today.
03:36That same steel pan that was crafted over in the Caribbean over 80 years ago.
03:42So, really, really excited to be here today.
03:44They perform at all sorts of festivals. Has anyone seen the Steelers before?
03:50A few of you. A couple of you. That's fabulous.
03:54But we're going to hear some fantastic music from them.
03:56So, without much more chat from me, I want the biggest, the loudest, the most Cornish roar you have ever heard and ever delivered.
04:07Ready? If you're sensitive, brace yourselves.
04:10But let's hear it for the Steelers!
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08:11Thank you very much.
08:13So welcome.
08:15These are the Steelers from Mewki in Cornwall.
08:17give you another song now that you might recognize some lucky people heard a
08:21little version of this before this is a song take it away for these drums by
08:25Taylor Swift
08:47Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
09:17hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
09:47Hey ho! Hey ho! Hey, ho! Hey ho! Hey, ho!
10:01Get up, girls! Get up, girls! Let's get it on!
10:13Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
10:43hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
11:13Thank you very much!
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12:19The singing's amazing!
12:21So, we are going to do a song now
12:23that's a little bit more traditional
12:25This is a song made famous by a chap
12:27called Harry Belafonte
12:29Err... What an amazing man he was
12:31Look him up if you don't know who he is
12:33Harry Belafonte
12:35so this song begins with the drums and it gives us the typical soca rhythm that you associate with
12:44all of the kind of calypso steel band movements so have a little listen to the drums here
12:54and you might recognize this rhythm because this rhythm is all out of the pop music your
12:59singer songs your Ed Sheeran songs your Dua Lipa and let's make it a little more traditional here
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