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Philip Nanton, author of RIFF: The Shane Keane Story will appear at the Boca Lit Fest. -
RIFF: The Shake Keane Story, a biography of the Vincentian musician and poet, was launched during a virtual event on January 28 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANehsC28xoI)Author
Its author Philip Nanton will appear at the Bocas LitFest on April 23 at 8 pm. St Lucian writer John Robert Lee, interviewed him.
Q: What inspired you to write this biography of Shake Keane? Is it a first biography of Keane?
A: The short answer is that Shake’s life contained many elements of a good story: up from humble beginnings in St Vincent, international acclaim in the jazz world, especially in England and Europe of the 1960s; a triumphal return home that went sour because of political machinations, followed quickly by a struggle to survive his last years in New York. ....

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