The repetoire of the Bahamas National Youth Choir is wide-ranging, encompassing classical music, Broadway tunes, American contemporary, spirituals, folk music of the Caribbean and the world, and its specialty, Bahamian folk and calypso music most of which have been arranged by the founder/director and is presented with brightly coloured costumes, energetic and creative choreography and effective lighting.
 
 
 
 

The Bahamas National Youth Choir was established in 1983 and reestablished in 1990, and consists of some thirty-six people between the ages of 16 and twenty-seven years, who give voluntarily of their time without remuneration as a form of national service.

The Choir can be heard in concert annually during the week preceding Holy Week the Dundas Center for the Performing Arts. It has produced eight recordings.  To date, the Choir has sung in eighteen languages including French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Norwegian, Malay, Japanese, Latin, Haitian Creole, Fante, Hausa, Ga, Twi, Zulu, Yorua, Mandarin and English.
 
 
 

"You May Have to pinch yourself, because of the exceptional high calibre of the performance."

Anne Halkitis, The Tribune, March 1995
 

J.W. Robinson Horne writing in the Richmond Afro-American about the Choir's  performance at theJohn F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington D.C. stated, "This Choir is one of choral majesty and beauty, their harmony, diction and intonation are superb." September 1992