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Steel band wins at national festival
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FLINT The Mott Middle College High School Concert Steel Band took top honors at the Heritage Music Festival held recently in Chicago. The band won the gold award for a score of 90 or above, the adjudicators trophy for a score of 95 or above and the outstanding band trophy for the highest score of all groups. The competition included 14 bands and orchestras from eight different states. This was the fifth time the MMC band has competed in the event. The group earned the highest score in each of the previous Heritage Festivals as well. The 10-student band's director is James Coviak, who also is director of Steelheads Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band, a collaborative venture of Mott Middle College, Mott Community College and the University of Michigan-Flint. The percussion ensemble has been recognized for excellence in concerts across North America and Europe. It was also featured as the cover story in the November 2003 issue of School Band and Orchestra magazine.
Brooklyn, New York
Utopia Pan Soul-
CASYM dropping tracks... Brooklyn, New York - May 2004
May 20, 2004 08:51 AM US Eastern Timezone 3rd Annual Caribbean-Style Parade Returns to Philadelphia's Fairmount Park PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2004--Philly Carnival, a FREE, multi-cultural street festival and parade, organized by the Philadelphia Multi-Cultural Carnival Association (PMCCA), will return to Fairmount Park's Memorial Hall in West Philadelphia, on June 19th, for a day full of excitement, laughter and fun for the entire family. The festival starts at 11 a.m. and the parade starts at 12 p.m. All are invited to attend. Click for more info NOTE TO EDITORS: Web Posted - Fri Jun 11 2004
PanGang PanGang is made of teenagers who started playing at age
six...
http://www.pangang.de Web Posted - May 2004 By When Steel Talks WBGO
Plants Seeds for the Future of Pan and Jazz through it's Free Children's
Jazz Series
Newark Museum - May 2004
Click
for full story and video Max Roach speaks on pan, technology and the music business... Part one of an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks Click on link to view video >>
Birmingham England - May 2004
The Birmingham School of Pan
Web Posted - May 2004
Emmanuel Riley - Pan
Tuner and Renowned Pan Soloist
You've heard of Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe and Robert Greenidge,
two of the best steelpan players on the planet. Now in an exclusive When
Steel Talks interview meet Emmanuel “Cobo Jack” Riley - the man who
influenced them and a generation of top pan players.
By Rick Bird Post staff reporter Publication Date: The hottest teen band in these parts, this month at least, will likely get little airplay on radio and certainly won't have any MTV videos. You won't find members of this group in skate punk garage bands or playing at clubs or raves. But their new CD, "Music in Our Blood," is as
accomplished as any national effort and it shows how the steel drum can be
hip.
Web Posted - May 2004 (PanJazz at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center) This June will be an extremely special Black Music Month. Two of the greatest musical achievements - Jazz and the Steelpan - of the 20th century will come together on June 20th, 2004 to produce one of the most magnificent musical concerts in New York history. A pleasant surprise awaits in the form of a Father’s Day show at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The steelpan instrument’s humble origins notwithstanding, pan has played many genres of music, if not as many venues. The show on June 20th marks the debut of the Pan Jazz format at Lincoln Center. The Steelpan, the only musical instrument invented in the 20th century, meets Jazz - the greatest and only American music art form. Jazz music, an American art form and international phenomenon, is among America's greatest cultural achievements. It is a powerful voice born out of the African American experience. Moreover, Jazz unites people across racial, religious, cultural, regional and national divides. The Steelpan, a modern marvel is an instrument that was born out of a struggle. It embodies the best of the human spirit – which is the ability to survive and conquer the elements in one's environment. The Pan ‘Saga’ is the classic Cinderella story that is commonly embraced by all cultures – that is - what is perceived as bad and ugly, becomes good and beautiful.
Web Posted - May 2004
Women In Steel
perform The Brooklyn Museum occupies a special place in history as the one that was slated to be the largest in the world - larger than the famed Louvre in Paris - had it been built to its original specifications of 3,000,000 square feet. Brooklyn's annexation to New York City brought about the scaling back of those plans to one sixth that size. Women in Steel who have made their own mark as Brooklyn's only all-female steel orchestra, became part of the institution's history as it marked yet another epoch in its existence. Saturday April 17 heralded the official public unveiling and celebrated opening of the Brooklyn Museum's New Open Front Entrance and Public Plaza, and free admission to the facility and the day's events facilitated a constant audience flow in the tens of thousands. Click for... Full Story UA Steel Band bangs with Trinidadian virtuoso
By
Mark Sussman • Arizona Daily
Wildcat If any instrument has been maligned within Western music,
it is the steel pan. Most American music fans are introduced to the
instrument via the laid-back sounds of Jimmy Buffet. That’s usually where
the relationship stops. But the UA Steel Band is trying to take the pans out
of “Margaritaville” and back into the concert hall where they belong.
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story>> |
Steel pan jam
for dad Steel pan music will be the star of a special Father's Day celebration for deserving dads - and music lovers of all persuasions - at Lincoln Center in Manhattan next month. Pan greats Garvin Blake, Andy Narell, Arturo
Tappin, Liam Teague and the ADLIB Steel Orchestra will be featured
performers at "Tropical Sensation," a Father's Day Pan Jazz concert at
Alice Tully Hall on June 20 at 6 p.m. ADLIB Ready for Busting Out with New York CD's eCaroh Caribbean Emporium, one of the leading online steelpan music outlets will now add what is known as the New York "Sound" to it catalogue of steelpan music offerings...
Pelham Talks... Fire and Steel Germany - May 20,2004 The qualification for this largest German orchestra competition
represents a kind of "culture revolution" in itself! BängBäng is an
orchestra, that plays instruments, which are not at all acknowledged in the
official music-science, although they are already played virtuosly for well
over 50 years. PanKultur e.V. in Dortmund was founded in 1994 - that means
10 years of music-education. BängBäng consists almost exclusively of
amateur-musicians, who gained their first musical experiences partially in
this SteelOrchester. Now it will show up whether the work of Eckhard C.
Schulz, Martin Buschmann and Jürgen Lesker is honored by the experts too.
Pan Explosion 2004 Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival. London England - May 2004 The British Association of Steelbands (BAS) is proud to have initiated and developed this competition. Its concept is to encourage younger players under the age of twenty-five for the ensembles competition and thirty for the soloist’s competition. 2004 being the fourth year the soloist’s competition is in existence. Web Posted - May 2004 Korea - May 2004
BT Melodians Steel Orchestra visit to Pyongyang North
Korea. The
festival was first introduced 22 years ago and has continued to develop
and welcome performers from around the globe. This year 80 groups and
soloists representing 46 countries participated. BT Melodians from
Battersea performing on steel drums, the national instrument of Trinidad &
Tobago, was the UK representative. Presenting performances
to the people of Korea throughout the trip the BT Melodians found the
attendees to be curious and impressed with the steel pans (the only
instrument of the 21st century) and constant press coverage
from both TV and Radio interviews ensured that the people of North Korea
were all given the opportunity to be introduced to the wonderful sound of
the steel pans.
Pan players
drum out Wash High educator in style It was 1975, and Svaline was five years into his career as the band director for Washington High School. He and his students were visiting Walt Disney World while in Florida to play at college football's Orange Bowl. "That's when I heard my first steel band - out in front of the Pirates of the Caribbean. I was blown away by the sound, so I started to research it," Svaline said.
Steel Band Jamboree ST. THOMAS - Bass pans rumbled and the melodic sounds of the tenor shrilled in the night air at Lionel Roberts Stadium on Friday to tunes of soca and calypso played by children's and adults' groups at the Steel Band Jamboree. Although the popular Territorial Court Rising Stars were not on the program Friday night, 11 steel-pan orchestras from schools and communities on St. Thomas and St. John entertained the audience during the Virgin Islands Carnival Committee-sponsored event. "They say they can't play on a Friday," Steel
Band Jamboree chairman Eduardo Corneiro said of the Rising Stars. 18th annual Rivertown Jazz & Blues Festival at Conway's Riverfront Park The Taiko Drum Ensemble and Conway Elementary Steel Drum Band Ensemble | Both all-percussion units, composed of Conway Elementary students, and under the direction of music teacher Tim Peterman, will perform a variety of tunes, including Tito Puentes "Oye Como Va," Latin party favorite "Tequila" and several Japanese compositions. Peterman will accompany the ensembles on steel drum in
addition to conducting. "I'm not going to let them have all the fun," he
said. |
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