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Steel band wins at national festival

HOMETOWN HEADLINES
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

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.

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Brooklyn, New York
Web Posted - May 2004
By When Steel Talks

Utopia Pan Soul-
The Next Generation - Opens Summer season with a blast...

Utopia Pan soul the next Generation got the New York summer Steelpan season started off with a blast...  The annual spring concert featured a slew New York's notables, Playing in front of a packed house...
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Pantonic Live!! gets a thumbs up review in Air Jamaica's SkyWritings


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CASYM dropping tracks...
Web Posted - May 2004
By When Steel Talks
 

Brooklyn, New  York - May 2004


New York's heavy weight CASYM Steel Orchestra records tracks for upcoming CD...


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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.

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Web Posted - Fri Jun 11 2004
By When Steel Talks
Germany - May 2004


Pan Spotlight

PanGang

PanGang is made of teenagers who started playing at age six... http://www.pangang.de

Pan In Germany... courtesy of Werner M. Weidensdorfer Foto: Birgit Mundhenke
http://www.steeldrum.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

WBGO continually cultivates the next generation of pan jazz music lovers through its Free Children's Jazz Concert series which is a huge hit.   WBGO is recognized as one of the nation's most respected Jazz stations, and by default, one of the world's.  Educational outreach is an important part of the station's programming.  WBGO's Children's Jazz Series, now in its 11th year, operates under the theme of building the future of jazz, through continued exposure to the young.  The Children's Jazz Concert series was started by
Ms. Dorthaan Kirk, WBGO's Special Events and Programs Coordinator.

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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 >>

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Birmingham England - May 2004

The Birmingham School of Pan
Teaching the true art of playing the Pan

 


The Birmingham School of Pan was founded by JAMMA - May 2003.

The inspiration came from my son Jamani; as a soloist, his performances would attract many young children to the pan instrument. In the area where we live, there are a lot of youngsters who would be playing football, and playing in general around the neighbourhood, but whenever Jamani and Rochella (my daughter), would be practicing - all the children would gravitate to our back garden and want to play. I had a drum kit and a few tenor pans, single seconds, and bongos (percussion instruments), so when we finished our own practice sessions, I would let the youngsters have their own session.

It was not long before I had about seventeen kids in the garden - all practising. They were so keen that as soon as they came from school they would come around to practice. Weekends and school holidays meant they would be knocking on the backdoor window from as early as 8.30 AM, asking if they could take the pans out.

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Web Posted - May  2004
By When Steel Talks

Emmanuel Riley - Pan Tuner and Renowned Pan Soloist
A When Steel Talks Exclusive Interview

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.

Emmanuel Riley, now based in New York, is one of the steelpan instrument's true living legends - he is a Master pan craftsman, tuner, and renowned soloist... Mr. Riley will be honored in New York at Lincoln Center on June 20th at the Acoustic Revolution Pan Jazz concert for pioneering the art of improvisational jazz playing and contributions to the steelpan art-form... Mr. Riley is one of the best of a special generation of young people who were both great players and master instrument makers.

Hear his experiences, his travels and his stories... Mr. Riley's steelpan feats have already been immortalized in song and the folkways of pan...

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http://www.panonthenet.com/masters/artist/cobo/CoboJack.htm



School's Steel Drum Band makes CD

By Rick Bird
Post staff reporter
Publication Date: 04-26-2004

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.
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Web Posted - May  2004
By When Steel Talks

A Special Black Music Month 

(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.

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Web Posted - May  2004
By When Steel Talks

Women In Steel perform
at Brooklyn Museum's gala celebration

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.

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UA Steel Band bangs with Trinidadian virtuoso

By Mark Sussman • Arizona Daily Wildcat
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, April 22, 2004
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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.  Click for full story>>
 

 

Steel pan jam for dad
 on his day

May 30, 2004

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.

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ADLIB Ready for
Historic Concert


ADLIB Steel Orchestra visits the grounds of Lincoln Center, New York as it prepares for the monster concert on June 20th 2004...

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eCaroh Caribbean Emporium

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...


Four New Releases from New York City

The New York pan sound is convincingly demonstrated in four recently
released CDs: Pantonic Live!, Pan in New York 2003!!!, Tonic For The Soul, and Evolution. The term first came to mind in 2001 when “USSA Panorama 2001” was released. Twelve different individuals including Clive Bradley, Jit Samaroo and Pelham Goddard arranged the twelve renditions of the finalists of the panorama competition. These three extraordinary musicians have dominated T&T’s panorama music with its frenetic pace common in all T&T panorama performances. Yet, Messrs. Bradley, Samaroo and Goddard have deferred to the “New York pan sound”.   
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Pelham Talks...

New York, NY -  May 20, 2004

Master Arranger, Producer and Musician visits Basement Recordings for an exclusive When Steel Talks interview...

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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.
http://www.steeldrum.de
http://www.pyrographie.de/steelmeetssteel.html


 

Pan Explosion 2004

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival.

London England - May 2004

The fifth annual British Association of Steel bands’ Pan Explosion was held on
Sunday 2nd May 2004 at the Tabernacle in Powis Square, London. Unlike the English weather at this time of the year, this spring day was perfect for hosting the event, bright and warm as if blessed by the heavens.  Dallaway Steelband performed in the foyer of the Tabernacle entertaining the crowd before the start of the show.

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.

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Web Posted - May  2004
By When Steel Talks

Korea - May 2004

BT Melodians Steel Orchestra visit to Pyongyang North Korea.
22nd April Spring Friendship Arts Festival

 

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.
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Pan players drum out Wash High educator in style
By Jeff Pikulsky
VALLEY INDEPENDENT
Thursday, April 29, 2004
 

WASHINGTON, Pa. - The strange sound band director J. Marc Svaline heard on a school trip years ago inspired him to create a historic movement back home.

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.

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Steel Band Jamboree
Pan players of all ages bring sweet tunes for Carnival crowd
By AYESHA MORRIS
Saturday, April 24th 2004

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.
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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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