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The streets of Port-of-Spain tell many sto­ries. For some, they’re sim­ply a path from one place to the next. For oth­ers, they re­veal a harsh­er re­al­i­ty—one marked by noise, hus­tle, and mo­ments that aren’t al­ways easy on the eyes or ears. How­ev­er, one man is hop­ing to change that—not through protest or pol­i­cy, but with some­thing far more el­e­gant: clas­si­cal mu­sic.

Stan­ley Roach is an 81-year-old vi­o­lin­ist from Mal­abar, who spends some of his week­days on In­de­pen­dence Square ser­e­nad­ing passers-by with his vi­o­lin-play­ing.

“Some of them will nev­er go to a con­cert, and I can play [clas­si­cal mu­sic] for them,” he said.