NEW YORK, N.Y. – Members of the world-famous Bahamas Brass Band on Thursday, August 24, 2023, paid a courtesy call on the Hon. Leroy F. Major, Bahamas Consul General to New York, at the Consulate, located at Bahamas House, 231 East 46th Street.
The group had lunch with the Consul General, who discussed matters related to the Consulate’s work and how is it assists Bahamians in its jurisdictions in the tri-state area as well as its out-reach efforts to various Bahamas diplomatic missions in the United States and internationally.
Twenty-one-members of the band traveled from The Bahamas to New York on Tuesday, August 22, to perform in concerts throughout the New York Tri-State area and Boston, Massachusetts. On Wednesday, August 23, they attracted an enormous crowd as they played impactful Bahamian gospel music alongside some of the most influential nation-wide musicians in the center of Time-Square.
The Bahama Brass Band has been interwoven in the fabric of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas since 1925 in New Providence and 1956 in Grand Bahama. The Band started with five men whose idea was to start institution to provide special gospel music for special services like conventions, revivals, crusades and the like. The Band has survived through World War Two and the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Today, almost 98 years later, the Band has over 100 members and continues to be a vibrant force for Christ, His Kingdom and true ambassadors for our beloved country traveling around the world to places such as Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Missouri and Toronto, Canada
Other international religious opportunities have been throughout Europe, such as London England; throughout Caribbean nations, such as The Turks and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, and St. Kitts, as well as the British and US Virgin Islands, South America Peru, Swaziland and to the Motherland, South Africa.
The Band has also played on stage with major gospel recording artist — such as Pastor Sherly Ceasar, Smokey Norful, Pastor Donnie McClurkin — and landed the opportunity to promote The Bahamas on Trinty Broadcasting Network (TBN).
The Band’s most recent tour of Houston Texas was so successful that the it became the buzz of the city. The Band has been able to impact over 200 million people through its music and has been interviewed on several television stations, such as, CBS, FOX, ABC and CNN.
HERE’S A LINK TO THE BAHAMAS BRASS BAND IN TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK, ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2023
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