As they do every year overseas-based Guyanese artiste John ‘Slingshot’ Drepaul and his wife Ingrid were back in Guyana last month for Mashramani with a new song and a Mash band. Unfortunately though, events conspired against them and few of their many supporters got to see them in the Mashramani Day parade.
Slingshot’s new song launched this year was called “Guyana Fun Time” and according to him it tried to incorporate everything Guyanese had fun doing before the advent of the computer age. He said today’s children know about twittering, iPhone, iPad and iPod, but as a child in his times they had bat and ball, dominoes, swimming, cards. Yes, they had telephones, he said – “two tin cups attached to a rope”. He added that they also used to run about rolling a bicycle rim.
“That’s what we tried to portray on the
