The Specials hosted Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and parents at their show at Brooklyn Steel. The Brit ska legends were touring in support of Encore, the band’s first new music with vocalist Terry Hall since 1981. Artist/activist Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was one of the 17 students killed in last year’s Parkland, Fla., shooting, spoke to the sold-out crowd, and the Specials—including protester/activist Saffiyah Khan—incorporated the Instrument Of Hope (a trumpet made by survivors of the shooting from bullet casings) into their set. MAGNET photographer Wes Orshoski was there for this special(s) evening.
