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The music of the Bahamas is associated primarily with Junkanoo, a celebration which occurs on Boxing Day and again on New Year's Day. Parades and other celebrations mark the ceremony. Groups like The Baha Men , Ronnie Butler ,Kirkland Bodie and Twindem have gained massive popularity in Japan, the United States and other places.
In the Nassau Times, published on the 6th of April, 1878, an account titled, "Interesting Description of Life and Scenes in the Bahamas", mentions a band playing music for a couple recently married. He states: "we met the musical instruments going to this feast of love. They consisted in of a tom tom, a hollow log and a pipe".
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Joseph Spence (August 3, 1910 – March 18, 1984) was a Bahamian guitarist and singer. [1] He is well known for his vocalizations and humming while playing the guitar. Several American musicians, including Taj Mahal, [2] the Grateful Dead, [3] Ry Cooder, [2] Catfish Keith, [4] Woody Mann, and Olu Dara, as well as the British guitarist John Renbourn, were influenced by and have recorded ...
God Bless our Sunny Clime" is the national song of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Its music was composed by Timothy Gibson (composer and teacher) and E. Clement Bethel (composer, and Director of Culture of the Bahamas). The lyrics were written by the Rev. Philip Rahming, a Baptist minister and lecturer at the College of the Bahamas.
Butler began his career in music at the age of 16. He performed in Bahamian local nights spots such as Ronnie's Rebel Room, the Rum Key, Big Bamboo, the Trade Winds Lounge, and Nassau Beach Hotel and has toured throughout Europe, South America and North America.
Goombay is a form of Bahamian music and a drum used to create it. The drum is a membranophone made with goat skin and played with the hands. The term Goombay has also symbolized an event in the Bahamas, for a summer festival with short parades known as ‘Junkanoo’.
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