DENNIS FRANCIS VISITS UTT CAMPUS

He's already president of the UN General Assembly, and now Dennis Francis says he's wants to learn to play the steelpan.

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00:00already president of the UN General Assembly and now Dennis Francis says he

00:03wants to learn to play the steel pan on Wednesday Francis stopped by the

00:08University of Trinidad and Tobago campus at Napa where he got an impromptu pan

00:13lesson while there he recommended is that pan is considered developing the

00:17religious music genre on the pan and he explains how this idea came out I was

00:24very privileged and gifted to have had an audience a private audience about a

00:33week ago with His Holiness the Pope in Rome well since Trinidad and Tobago is

00:40the home of the steel pan and it is now properly designated in life and in law

00:50as our national instrument I should take him a pan but there really wasn't enough

00:59time to get my hands on a pan small one so then I thought well maybe I could

01:05take him a CD of mostly religious music could I find it anywhere no