Minister of Culture Charles Maynard helps launch Fresh Paint as Charles Carter, host of the evening, listens. (Photo: Farreno Ferguson/ELife242)

Fresh Paint,
a new musical CD that has been described as a masterpiece of Bahamian
music, was released in Nassau at the end of October with the hope of
giving Bahamian music greater prominence around the world.

 

Top Bahamian musician
and composer Fred Ferguson developed the CD with the Ministry of Tourism
& Aviation in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, Sports &
Culture.  The collection of songs consists of 10 Bahamian tunes.
Nine are classics that Mr. Ferguson has re-made with an eclectic mix
of Junkanoo, rake 'n scrape, goombay and jazz sounds.  The songs,
such as

Shotgun Wedding,

Bahama Rock, and

Funky Nassau,
were selected from decades of Bahamian hits...