The Chocolate Dandies

The Chocolate Dandies was the toast of town as the leading orchestral band of the early 1950s. Amongst the greats in the band was Charles Carey, father of political activist Lionel Carey. George “God Bless” Symonette, (seen on the first tier next to Gladstone Christie) George is the father of the legendary Edmund Moxey, who would go on to create Jumbey Village. Another major star of the Chocolate Dandies was the legendary crooner George Symonette, seen here on the piano, who literally was the 1950’s star of the dinner clubs and night clubs of the day and reigned supreme in calypso and Goombay tunes on the radio. Another luminary was Freddie Williams, the husband of Eva McPherson Williams, the co-founder of the Miss Bahamas Beauty Pageant. The band played at the Royal Victoria Hotel, the Montagu