Pan, mas and a king’s farewell

It was more a cel­e­bra­tion than a fu­ner­al yes­ter­day, as steel­pan mu­sic, tra­di­tion­al mas and the red, white and black of na­tion­al flags brought the streets of Port-of-Spain alive for Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co’s farewell pa­rade.

From In­de­pen­dence Square, along Fred­er­ick Street to the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), peo­ple lined the route, flags in hand.

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Stu­dents from schools across Trinidad joined tow­er­ing moko jumbies and blue dev­ils, while mu­sic trucks and the All Stars Steel Or­ches­tra pro­vid­ed the sound­track to a farewell filled with the cul­tur­al con­tri­bu­tions Spar­row had car­ried to the world.