Over 40 young rock music enthusiasts equipped with guitars and drumsticks, whose ages range from eight-18 years, took over Cinema 10 at MovieTowne to participate in the Orange Sky School of Rock, sponsored by Digicel. The ten-week program was launched on June 12, 2011 by Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston "Gypsy" Peters. Each week the students will learn the fundamentals of rock music. The students will be placed into six bands and from here will compete against one another to the end of the competition when one rock band will be formed. The day began with a drum roll, followed by a huge puff of smoke rising from a "coffin" and Orange Sky's Nigel Rojas dressed as a "mummy" appearing out of it, belting out rock music on his electric guitar. The children, who were awestruck, stood up and cheered and this set the stage for their lessons of the day.

Orange Sky is a rock band with a twist, they spice their music with layers of reggae, metal and everything in between. Their lyrics are sheer poetry. The quintet, vocalist and lead guitarist Nigel Rojas, brother Nicholas Rojas on bass.
Musicians worldwide seem to have one thing in common-- the need to make a living while honing their craft and Rojas is no exception.

"Pain in the ass," quips Rojas. "No, it's a dream come true, we've been jamming together for life and I still get a little feeling inside when I see him when we're on stage. Every now and again I see him right next to me and we're jamming together and it's a dream come true. We have a common goal from childhood and now here we are. We're jamming and we're doing this thing and people are responding and we live in a dream, we really live in a dream."

Always beside Nigel on stage is his younger brother, Nicholas Rojas, the band’s bass player. Although they look alike in many ways, they couldn’t be more different. Nicholas is shy and somehow uncertain — not of his talent, but of his ability to communicate directly to an audience. Happy to defer to Nigel, Nicholas says, “I prefer to be in the background and just play music.” And the two have been doing just that since they were little when an aunt (who is also a nun) taught them hymns like How Great Thou Art and Hail Mary on the guitar.

[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]

Officially, the band’s name is the Orange Sky, but in ordinary conversation everybody drops the definite article. To some longtime fans, they’re simply “the Sky”. But what does it mean?

“Orange Sky” immediately calls to mind the image of a vivid tropical sunset, the moment of calm exhilaration when the whole world seems to glow with the sun’s last rays — and, sure enough, that image is where the name came from in the first place. “To me, it’s like sunrise, sunset,” says Nigel Rojas. “Infinity, ultimately.” A kind of over-the-rainbow state of mind, in other words — in which wrongs are righted, sorrows smoothed away, and everything in its right place — a state of mind summed up by a brief song with which the band used to start all their live sets:

Why are we alive? To heal the wounds inside.
Why are we afraid? To heal the pain we’ve made.
Far beyond the hills lies the other side
Where the horizon meets the Orange Sky.

As this article was going to press, the Orange Sky’s management announced that the band was entering into contractual negotiations with a US record label, but that it was too early to release any further details.

With their unique soul-strumming rock-reggae sound and easy-going calypso vibe, the Orange Sky are the stars of Trinidad’s local rock music scene. Now they're making their most ambitious move yet: trying for an international breakthrough.

This channel is based in Trinidad and Tobago, island country of the southeastern West Indies. It consists of two main islands—Trinidad and Tobago—and several smaller islands. ... Extending diagonally from southwest to northeast, Tobago is about 30 miles (50 km) long and more than 10 miles (16 km) across at its widest point. The content here is created by Michael Ramsingh, and the aim of the channel is to create content that would help represent Trinidad and Tobago culture and People to the world. #trinidad #michaelramsingh #monemedia #mikeonthemictt #orangesky
#schoolofrocktrinidad #orangeskyschoolofrock
This channel is based in Trinidad and Tobago, island country of the southeastern West Indies. It consists of two main islands—Trinidad and Tobago—and several smaller islands. ... Extending diagonally from southwest to northeast, Tobago is about 30 miles (50 km) long and more than 10 miles (16 km) across at its widest point. The content here is created by Michael Ramsingh, and the aim of the channel is to create content that would help represent Trinidad and Tobago culture and People to the world. #trinidad #michaelramsingh #monemedia #mikeonthemictt

свернуть