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Massachusetts, USA - April 6^th 2013 will be a historic day in the steel pan scene in Boston. Roland Hayes School of Music is hosting its second annual “Boston Public Schools Steel Pan Festival.”  It is shaping up to be the biggest steel pan event in Boston.

In 2012, the festival welcomed Boston Metro Steel Orchestra, the legendary Boston music group and the city’s last standing steel band organization. Also hosted in its inaugural outing - Zach Field Drum Studios Steel Band, a group from Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Planet Pan Steel Band out of Blue Hill, Maine, which stole the show. The event was a success, enough for organizers to proclaim at the close of the show “See you next year!”

This year the musical magic will be recreated as crowd favorites make their way back to Boston.  BPS (Boston Public Schools) / Roland Hayes Citywide and Mission Hill School roll out the welcome mat once more for Boston Metro, Zach Field Drum Studios and Planet Pan. In addition, St. Mary’s Heavenly Fire Steel Band unveils its first public performance in 12 years and from New York, USA East Side Symphony will perform. East Side has had an innovative and modern change in direction, and are eager to present the ‘new’ East Side - all youths, and with a new arranger at the helm.

The BPS Steel Pan Festival is on its way to becoming an important event not only in the Boston Caribbean community calendar, but also that of the wider steel pan fraternity. Festival organizers are proud to host this event, which is free, and look forward to all performing groups putting smiles on faces of all festival attendees, with the aim to bring the culture – the music and everything else – into the 21^st century.

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