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Taking Pan from Siparia, Trinidad to Ontario, Canada

Siparia Deltones to perform and conduct steelpan workshops
for Canadian students


Siparia Deltones on Panorama Finals night, 2006 - San Fernando, Trinidad, W.I.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. – The Siparia Deltones Steel Orchestra will perform for audiences totaling approximately 40,000 in Canada next month. They will perform at the Barrie Caribbean Festival (Caribfest) and will also be the featured guests at the One World International Drumming Festival. The Trinidad and Tobago Entertainment Company Limited (T&T Ent) has helped to support the Orchestra’s two-month stay that will include performances and workshop facilitation. This comes on the heels of the Love Circle’s tour of Kenya and the European Tour both of which received funding from T&T Ent.

The Steel Orchestra has been invited by the Caribbean Culture Institute in Barrie, Ontario to perform at two large events that will highlight the dexterity and wonder of the steelpan.

The orchestra will also conduct a series of workshops for approximately 100 Canadian students during the six weeks of a Steel Pan Music camp. The President of the Brampton Community All Steel Percussion Concert Band visited the Siparia Deltones during the 2009 carnival period. He was so impressed with the Siparia Deltones’ curriculum and pan education methodology, that the format of the Steel Pan Music Camp in Canada was modeled around the program of the Deltones Pan School.

The workshop series will include elements of steelpan history, awareness and maintenance, making of the steelpan, steelpan playing techniques, the science of music, performance and steelband arranging. The workshops will be the pilot for a Pan in Schools initiative in Canada.  Over twenty members of the orchestra will make the trip to Canada - the majority of whom are still in their teenage years.  The similarity in age of members of the Siparia Deltones and the Canadian students will help to facilitate the learning process.

The Siparia Deltones Steel Orchestra was established in 1962 by pan pioneer Ellis Knights.

The musical director is the well known Carlton ‘Zanda’ Alexander who has been the driving force behind the band’s music direction for the past fifteen years. The Orchestra is comprised mainly of students carefully selected from their music school. 

For the 2009 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama competition season, the orchestra made the leap from the small conventional steel orchestra category, directly to that of the large, giving a very competitive performance of Alexander’s musical arrangement.  They placed seventh overall in the championship round on Finals night.

Interested persons can check out T&T Ent’s website at ttentonline.com to get updates on other projects that the Trinidad and Tobago Entertainment Company is involved in and to register for the national Entertainment E-registry.

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Trinidad & Tobago Entertainment Company Limited
49 Dundonald Street, Port of Spain
Trinidad, W.I.
1 (868) 624-0514
info@ttentonline.com
www.ttentonline.com 

 

 

   
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