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The Banchikilli music, or song-form, which in Arawak means 'to dance to the violin and banjo' is a hybrid of Arawak-Lokono Mari-Mari melodies superimposed on the Joropo, a Venezuela Creole genre. The Banchikilli migrated to Guyana (then…

St. Lucians migration to Guyana commenced in the mid 1940s, the first, Cyril Francis or 'Gasso' who originated from Dennery on the island. Until the late 1960s St. Lucians arrived via air or on the famous 'banana boat', cargo…