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Stories from Palmento Grove

The family, the food, the drums and the lagoon — written by the people who live here.

From a milk pan to a drum

He did not start on a drum. There wasn’t one to start on. How Rayton Martinez learned the rhythm that guests now come here to learn from him.
Rayton Martinez, the drumming instructor, seated at a Garifuna drum in the music pavilion at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize

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