Star-studded cast to honour Sparrow in final farewell today

A star-stud­ded cast of lo­cal artistes, in­clud­ing Machel Mon­tano, De­stra Gar­cia, Su­perblue, Crazy and Shur­wayne Win­ches­ter, will take the stage to­day to pay trib­ute to ca­lyp­so leg­end Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co.

The artistes are among 14 per­form­ers list­ed for the Na­tion­al Farewell and Cel­e­bra­tion of Life for the late Fran­cis­co, who died in New York on Sep­tem­ber 27 at the age of 91.

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The pro­gramme, or­gan­ised by the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, will al­so fea­ture Karen Fran­cis­co, Samuel Thomas Jr, Zachary Ran­some, Aaron Dun­can, Taz’yah O’Con­nor, Shel­don Reid, Chucky Gor­don, Kurt Allen and Sean Daniel.