• 2nd North Tyneside Festival of Steelbands 2009 (supported by BAS).  Includes performances, group workshop featuring 85 musicians and band workshops. Time: 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.  Venue: Wallsend Memorial Hall, 39 Station Road, Wallsend, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, ENGLAND.  Info.
   
• North Tyneside Steelband - CD Launch Party.  Time: 7:00–11:00 p.m.  Venue: Wallsend Memorial Hall, 39 Station Road, Wallsend, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, ENGLAND.  Info.
   

• Caribbean Steel International (CSI) appears for the first time in The Netherlands at the 5th Festival Afrique-Carib, and they kick off the festival at noon.  Also appearing Benicia (Colombia), Bushman (Jamaica), Junior Kelly (Jamaica) & Soca Twins (Germany).  Festival time: 12:00–9:00 p.m. Venue: Stadhuisplein, Almere, THE NETHERLANDS.  Info: info@afrique-carib.nl; Tel: 0031 6 519 13 478 (Ylanga Blinker); www.afrique-carib.nl
   

• The Engine Room Collective features live and pan music, with performances by Kyron Akal and Samuel Dubois.  Special guest Hinda Hicks. Hosted by Cutty Williams.  Door opens: 7:00 PM.  First performance: 8:00 PM.  Venue: The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London W11 2AY, ENGLAND.
   

• Baltimore Education and Cultural Institute Inc. presents its 9th annual Harbor View Festival - ‘Pan On The Move,’ with Crossfire Steel Orchestra,  DC Pan Jammers, De Heart of Steel, Harmony, Oasis Youth, Pantonic, Panquility, Positive Vibrations, Sonatas, Utopia Pan Soul, Women In Steel and more, competing for the Carlos Lezama Challenge Trophy.  Time: 1:00–9:00 p.m.  Venue: Reedbird Park, Cherry Hill, Harbor View, (Hanover Street near Harbor Hospital), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  Contact: 1 (443) 854-2920;  1 (719) 629-1330.  More info.
   

• Crossfire,  Pantonic, CASYM and more perform at Steelband Jamboree.  Time: late PM.  Venue: D’Radoes Pan Yard, 80-39 Chase Court, between Ralph Avenue and E. 83rd Street, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
   

• Pan Neubean Steel performs as part of the Wood Park Summer Concert Series.  Time: 6:30 p.m.  Venue: Wood Park, Park Street, Hudson.  Rain location is Hudson High School auditorium, 69 Brigham St., Hudson, Wisconsin, USA.
   

• BAS/GLA Annual Steelband Blockorama features Caribbean Steel International, Ebony Steelband, London All Stars, Metronomes Steel Orchestra and Sounds of Steel.  Time: 3:00–6:00 p.m.  Venue: Trafalgar Square, London, ENGLAND.
   

• Panist Mia Gormandy appears in concert at “Jewels On Steel.”  Time: 8:00–10:30 p.m.  Venue: Queen’s Hall, St. Ann’s, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
   

• Grenada’s Annual Steel Band Panorama Competition.  featuring Grenada's top steel orchestras.  Venue: the Queen’s Park National Stadium, St. George’s, GRENADA, W.I.
   

• Leon “Foster” Thomas performs.  Time: 9:00 p.m.  Venue: the Vandyke Café, 846 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Performance will also be shown live on the internet.
   
• Panyard Steel Drum Ensemble performs.  Time: 8:00–9:15 p.m.  Venue: the Guy C. Myers Memorial Band Shell, Brookside Park, W Main Street & Parkside Drive, Ashland, Ohio, USA.
   

• ECTC Panners perform at the 33^rd Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival.  Performance time: 12:30 p.m.  Venue: Earth Day Stage area, Fred G. Bond Metro Park, 801 High House Road, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
   

• Preliminaries: Steelband competition billed as the “Forces Panorama” featuring orchestras from the Nigerian Armed Forces - paramilitary organisations (Army, Navy, Airforce, Customs, Immigration, Police, Road Safety, Prisons and The Nigerian Civil Defense Corps.).  Organised by Bowie S. Bowei.  Time: 9:00 a.m.  Venue: indoor Abuja Sports Complex, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, NIGERIA.
   

• Semi-finals: Steelband competition billed as the “Forces Panorama” featuring orchestras from the Nigerian Armed Forces.  Organised by Bowie S. Bowei.  Time: 9:00 a.m.  Venue: indoor Abuja Sports Complex, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, NIGERIA.
   

• Finals: Steelband competition billed as the “Forces Panorama” featuring orchestras from the Nigerian Armed Forces.  Organised by Bowie S. Bowei.  Time: 9:00 a.m.  Venue: indoor Abuja Sports Complex, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, NIGERIA.
   

• The Northern Illinois University (NIU) Steel Band presents its annual spring concert.  Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.  Venue:  Boutell Memorial Concert Hall (Music Building), 550 Lucinda Avenue, NIU Campus, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.

 
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