Signal Hill Alumni choir goes to South Africa - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Signal Hill Alumni choir goes to South Africa - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

FOLK MUSIC has long been an integral part of the Signal Hill Alumni Choir’s repertoire. But the choir’s interest in the “music of Africa” took on a new dimension many years ago when its musical director John Arnold stumbled upon a book of freedom songs from South Africa, which he later learnt, were popular during the apartheid period. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Afric…