Reggae In The Fields
Saturday May 3rd, 2014 with Junior Smith
Featuring two Caribbean authors, Ewart Walters, Jamaica and Kamalo Deen, Trinidad and Tobago.

Interview with Ewart Walters, author "We Come from Jamaica: The National Movement 1937-1962" Ewart Walters, CD, MJ, is a triple Seprod Journalism gold medalist who published his autobiography "To Follow Right" - a Journalist's Journey in 2011. As a journalist with the newspapers Public Opinion, the Daily Gleaner, the Daily News and The Spectrum, Ewart Walters was Bureau Chief, Gleaner, Western Bureau, Montego Bay: covered parliament, politics, church, court, popular music, theatre and education, and was a diplomat in Ottawa and New York, serving Prime Ministers Michael Manley and Edward Seaga - all solid preparation for this brilliant story of the National Movement and the patriots who were its magnificent principal characters. Here in an account that bespeaks extensive reading combined with personal interviews and his own exposure to many of the personalities, Walters presents a riveting, authentic and persuasive tale in his attractive, easy-to-read style (Book back cover) Interview with Kamalo Deen Curry Cascadoo Kamalo Deen was born in 1944 in the village of Preysal in Trinidad & Tobago, and grew up in the village of Gasparillo. Kamalo has travelled extensively and has worked and lived in Trinidad, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New Jersey and New York where he presently resides. He has worked at various professions, including schoolteacher, waiter, composer, director, taxi driver, businessman, actor, courier, writer and filmmaker. Curry Cascadoo tells the story of a tragic period in the life of a Caribbean immigrant to New York. Troubled by loneliness, failing health and a longing for life as he remembers it in his native Trinidad, he struggles desperately to complete work on a novel he’d been writing for many years. As he stumbles towards his ultimate goal, he’s haunted by memories of past relationships and thoughts about the true significance of his life. The story is told in the form of letters, poetry and recollections. Curry Cascadoo combines strong feelings of joy and suffering, love and loneliness, nostalgia and doom and provides compelling storytelling throughout. (amazon.ca)