The Wichita Falls Museum of Art hosted its last Live at the Lake event with a performance from the Caribbean steel drum band. The Museum of Art hosted these events throughout the summer. The museum has hosted the Live at the Lake events for the past seven years, and the last four years have been under the direction of Museum Director Francine Carraro.

“The mission of the museum is to serve the community,” Carraro said.

Carraro went on to say that they started the events back in May.

“We continued to have the free concerts all summer long,” Carraro said.

The Live at the Lake events are simply to promote community outreach and to offer free, fun events for everyone to enjoy.

“We want to bring the community together. It’s a fun family event,” Carraro said.

The event had over 50 people in attendance enjoying the live music, food provided by Gypsy Kit and beverages provided by the Falls Beverage Company.

The main event that captivated the crowd was the steel drum band. Many students were in attendance, saying that they came to show their support for their fellow Caribbean students and to hear the distinct sound of the steel drums.

“We came for the band, and we are Caribbean students, so we came out to support them,” Clivonne Jno-Baptiste, accounting senior, said.

The steel drum band played many songs including the songs of the Caribbean. They gave the audience a taste of what a party in the Caribbean would be like.

“The music reminds us of back home, because they play a lot of music from there,” Alix Matthew, biology senior, said.

Caribbean Students Organization was a big part of the live at the lake show.  CSO, in addition to providing the music entertainment for the event, was also selling T-shirts for to raise money for charity and promoting the upcoming Caribfest. At the Live at the Lake show, and for this year’s Caribfest event, proceeds will benefit Wichita Falls Independent School District and the Disabled American Veterans.

“We have been in existence for 23 years as a part of MSU, and Caribfest has been going on for 19 years,” Timon Thomas, sports and leisure junior, said.

The CSO hosts several events throughout the year and has the biggest footprints on campus.

“We are the largest student organization on campus with over 200 students,” Thomas said.

Caribfest, which is hosted each year by the CSO, will begin on Sept. 29 with the Soca Show. Soca stands for soul of the calypso. The Soca Show, for those who have not been in attendance, is described to me by Thomas as a singing competition in which groups or people battle while the band plays traditional soca music. The Caribfest will end Saturday night Oct. 1st with the glow fete. Thomas told me that the glow fete is an all white affair in which you put glow paint on and it is one big party.

“We party hard!” Thomas said.