Both Sides of The Coin: The Story of The Central Bank of Barbados 1972-2017

194 Sing-Out Barbados performing in the Frank Collymore Hall. Barbados Dance Theatre Company, the Cavite Chorale, the Landship, the Bank’s in-house pianist, Adrian Clarke, the Choir of St. Michael’s Cathedral and concert pianist Janice Millington-Robertson. Since then, City Nights in various forms has been offered intermittently, usually during celebrations of the Bank’s significant anniversaries. In 2014, the event was held in the Church Village Green. Charitable and non-charitable organisations were given every opportunity to showcase cultural talents in the Bank’s new facilities since they were allowed access at no or low cost. In its first year of operation, the Hall started to offer monthly free lunchtime concerts by local and foreign artistes that ran from midday until 2 p.m. and attracted city workers, schoolchildren and Bank staff. In addition to usual offerings of music, dance and drama, the Hall has also been used for lunchtime and sunset concerts, graduations and other award ceremonies as well as a variety of memorial lectures. Among those attending performances in the Hall were Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, when on their second visit to the Bank in March 1989 they attended a performance of Barbados Growing Up by George Francis. Princess Alexandra and her husband were special guests at a cultural presentation in November 1992. Before she became world-famous, Barbadian singer Rihanna performed at the Hall in November 2004 at a concert staged by the Combermere School Old Scholars Association. Exhibitions of art and craft in the Grande Salle started in September 1986. Fielding Babb, Arthur Atkinson, Karl Broodhagen, Ras