THE 2022 JAMAICAN-AUSTRIAN FELSTED CELEBRATION
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Thanks to Music Unites Jamaica Foundation's close collaboration over many years with Argentinean / German musician, author and publisher Manfredo Zimmermann, the Oratorio 'Jonah' and the Six Voluntarys for Organ or Harpsichord' by Jamaica's first composer Samuel Felsted (1743 - 1802) are available at: 
​https://elopage.com/s/music-ornaments
Purchase Samuel Felsted: Complete Works
Live Recordings of Oratorio Jonah
​by Samuel Felsted
Recorded with the kind sponsorship of Saubermacher Dienstleistungs A.G.
Beverley Henry
Designated Recipient
Jimmy Tucker Music Scholarship 2023
Beverley Henry is a Jamaican singer, music teacher and musician. Born on December 22, 1983, in Port Maria, St. Mary as the eldest of four siblings, she grew up in the community of Guy’s Hill and is a past student of Guy’s Hill High School. Besides her skills in vocal teaching, choral conducting and performing on the steel pan, Beverley plays several classroom instruments including piano, percussions, conga drum and the recorder.
For the past 15 years she has been a full-time music teacher at St. Andrew Technical High and has won several prestigious awards and prizes with her students. These include: winning the 2015 JBSB Band Competition; earning gold, silver, and bronze medals in the JCDC School Festival Competition; and in 2014 being the 3rd place finisher in the TVJ ‘All Together Sing’ school choir competition.
In the year 2007 Beverley obtained a diploma in Music Education, and decided to further her studies in completing the Bachelor’s degree in this field at the School of Music / Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, guided by Ms. Gay Magnus, her Steelpan Lecturer and Mentor. 
As a single mother of two she is working assiduously on completing her studies, in order to stay true to her passion for teaching and performing music, as well as unearthing new musical talents in the nation’s children.

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MUJF Conducts Research on
​Jamaican Composers
Was it because of the amazing outburst of Popular Music creativity in Jamaica (which has now lasted for over half a century), that the documentation of all other Jamaican composers has been overlooked?

Music Unites Jamaica Foundation (MUJF) saw the necessity to offer Jamaica and the world an attempt at creating a more complete picture, especially in regards to the Music History syllabus being taught here and in the wider Caribbean. Simply put, we owe it to the many Jamaican composers, starting with Samuel Felsted (born 1743), to pull their outstanding works out of obscurity and from the shadow of Reggae Music! Continue Reading Article Here
Jamaica Jazz & Blues 2021

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JN Awards MUJF with funding for Research on Jamaican Composers