Redemption Sound Setters Performs in Washington DC at Independence Celebrations

Rbtt Redemption Sound Setters will head a Tobago cultural delegation to Washington D.C. to perform at festivities in commemoration of the country’s 45^th Anniversary of Independence.

The invitation was issued by Trinidad & Tobago Ambassador to Washington D.C. Marina Valere and will include Sweet Fingers Tambrin Band, calypsonian Wendy Garrick, Aquisia Fredericks Limbo Dance troupe and the Prembroke Folk Dancers.

The 58 member contingent will spend eight (8) days in the State capital performing at a series of events organized by the Ambassador. Among which are T&T Men Can Cook at the Inter-American Defense Board Headquarters (25^th August), A Cultural Evening at the OAS Headquarters (27^th August), Washington DC and Wilmington, Delaware (28^th August), and an outdoor performance at the National Sea Aquarium, Inner Harbour, Baltimore, Maryland (26^th August).

In Wilmington, the group will meet with State officials including the Governor of Delaware and members of the business community. Later that day, members of the steel orchestra will demonstrate the art to school children.

Rbtt Redemption Sound Setters, nine-time Tobago House of Assembly Pan Champs, has the distinction of being the only band from Tobago to win a National Panorama title and to have the first female elected as captain of any steel orchestra.

Just recently, the band was the opening act at the first ever Pan Jazz in De Yard. 

The Tobago contingent is expected to return on Independence Day, August 31^st.