Da Pond Band members mourn bandmates killed in Bahamas plane crash

On a Friday in July, a small Flamingo Air plane went down over the Bahamas, taking ten lives with it — among them, members of Da Pond Band, musicians who were not distant figures but part of the living texture of their community. When artists are lost, something beyond biography disappears: the particular harmonies they carried, the celebrations they made possible, the ordinary moments they soundtracked. Those who survived are now doing what the living must do — speaking the names of the gone, so that grief does not collapse into mere statistics.