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Daybreak
Daybreak – 23 April 2025
Today on Daybreak:
Tobi chats with The Link Up Podcast – big vibes, bigger plans ahead…
Beyond Basics shows us the latest in aesthetic treatments.
And musician and artist Randy Cholette plays a handmade log drum – tapping into its rich history and rhythm.
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Cayman Compass
Local artist turns discarded tree into work of musical art
With two drumming sticks in hand, local artist and musician Randy Chollette plays on the hollow pieces of his perfectly carved Cayman mahogany wood drum — an instrument that, for Chollette, is his most special creation to date and one that hits close to the heart of his beloved isle.
“This came from a tree that a lot of people used to hang out under, a gathering space for community so to speak,” Chollette told the Cayman Compass.
“This was in George Town. Certain authorities didn’t want the youth hanging there so they cut down the tree to ‘spite their face’. So, one of the young men who used to sit there and ‘reason’ about life, went there and took a piece of the trunk.”
That trunk was passed on to Chollette.
