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Web Posted -
Friday
April 29,
2005
When Steel Talks -
Pan , Calypso and the Calypsonian Special
A TRIBUTE TO PAN AND CALYPSO
PIONEERS
By Dr. L. Trevor Grant
The history of music in Trinidad and Tobago is rich and exciting and
continues to be influential in the potpourri of musical genres
throughout the musical world. The calypso, soca, chutney and parang are
all musical expressions that were given meaning to in Trinidad and
Tobago and continues to make an impact throughout the Caribbean region,
America, Canada and England.
The steelpan, which endured many negative influences from its inception
in the tumultuous 1940s, has progressed to become one of the most
dynamic and enthralling musical instruments of the 21st century.
The
steelpan is now a permanent fixture in most orchestras and big bands and
could be heard as a solo instrument on television and radio programs.
Pan giants like Len Boogsie Sharpe, Robert Greenidge, Clive Bradley, Jit
Samaroo, Pelham Goddard, Bertie Marshall and Ellie Mannette have taken
the innovative instrument to the top of the musical ladder and it is
beyond one’s imagination to tell the future of this acoustic instrument.
[Full
Story]
Web Posted - Thursday
April 28,
2005
When Steel Talks
- Exclusive
Pan Jazz Moves to
Uptown
Garvin Blake and
Friends to perform
at the Uptown Renaissance Restaurant
New York
- Pan
Jazz is moving uptown, literally, to the Uptown Renaissance
Restaurant in Harlem on Sunday May 1. Making the move for the
day, or rather the evening, are
Garvin Blake and Friends who received critical acclaim at
Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on Father's Day last year and
wowed the audience with their performance.
Uptown Renaissance restaurant
opened its doors a little over a year
ago on April 9, 2004.
The
establishment astutely recognized the importance of their community,
and therefore remained sensitive to its needs. Subsequently
the Callistes have opted to carry on in the tradition of the
preceding establishment, and ensure that clientele from their
surrounding community continue to feel welcome, while simultaneously
catering to consumers from all areas.
World Steelband Music Festival finals for
New York
London's loss will be New York's gain, as the World
Steelband Festival finals will now be staged in New York City after
the London organisers wanted Pan Trinbago to reschedule the event,
which was carded to take place in London at the end of next month.
Pan Trinbago president Patrick Arnold told the Tobago News: "The
persons who are charged with the responsibility for organising the
festival in London wanted us to push back the date to October, but
we want the Festival to be held during the summer when the weather
conditions will be more conducive."
Four Trinidad bands, Exodus, Laventille Sound Specialists, Defence
Force and Skiffle Bunch have already qualified for the finals.
They will compete against one band from the Virgin Islands, one from
Grenada, one from the University of Illinois, one from Chicago and
three from England. [Full
Story]
Web Posted -
Friday
April 29,
2005
When Steel Talks
Catch the internet premiere of Japan's leading
steelband Panorama Steel Orchestra -
with their latest CD - on PanRadio @
www.PanOnTheNet.com on Cool Steel this Friday.
Web Posted -
Wednesday
April 27,
2005
Trinidad Express
WeBeat to honour 'PG'
Terry Joseph
Pelham Goddard...to be honoured by WeBeat 2005
Organisers
of the annual WeBeat St James Festival have decided to honour master
musician and homeboy, Pelham Goddard, for his contribution to local
culture and the mosaic that is the City That Never Sleeps.
Born on Clarence Street, St James on December 12, 1946 and from soon
thereafter known to all in the village as "PG", Goddard started his
schooling at St Crispin's EC in Woodbrook and ended studies with a
music programme offered at Berklee College of Music, in
Massachusetts.
He is perhaps best known as musical director/arranger of the
phenomenal soca band, Charlie's Roots, which produced some of the
finest musicians in the genre and introduced us to the extraordinary
vocals of Christopher "Tambu" Herbert and David Michael Rudder but
PG is much more.
Full Story
Web Posted -
Friday
April 22,
2005
When Steel Talks
- Exclusive
ADLIB's Andre White
Wins Double Seconds Competition
New York -
Andre White of New York's ADLIB Steel
Orchestra captured Aquarium's annual steelpan competition. This
year's competition focused on the male Double Seconds category.
The youthful multi - talented Andre performed his own arrangement of
the required test piece (Pan In A Minor by Lord Kitchener). Mr. White leads the upper echelon
contingent of New York Steelpan music players. Moreover, these
players represent some top tuned percussions players in the North
America. [Full
Story]
Web Posted - Thursday
April 21,
2005
Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA Steel uses Trinidad experience for performances By
Lauren Hillery
Arizona - Remember when field trips in
grade school consisted of touring milk factories, going to the park and
visiting retirement homes? The UA steel drum's field trip in January
make those grade school trips look, well, childish.
UA Steel, as they are called, is open to all UA students. The only
requirement is that they have to love to play steel drums.
"They love the music. It's an escape from biology and chemistry classes
all day, and they just want to come play music," said Gary Cook,
director of percussion studies. "They love the energy and the style of
music."
CHRIS CODUTO/Arizona daily wildcat
"Steel drums" - Illustrations senior Michael Tierney practices
on the steel drums last night in the Music building. He and 24
other students will be performing Sunday in a steel drum concert
hosted by the music department.
Web Posted - Friday
April 22,
2005
When Steel Talks - Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT - When Steel Talks - Special
PANWAVE STEELBAND
Ask anyone in Cambridge ( Ontario, Canada ) about
steelband music and they will all tell you, Panwaves steelband......
This steelband was established in 1989 by Clyde Dookie
in the little community village of Hespeler, now part of the City of
Cambridge. When it started, there were only 5 members, all of them,
part of the Dookie family.
Web Posted - Thursday
April 21,
2005
Arkron
Beacon Journal
It's panned out
nicely
UA's storied Steel Drum Band, marking a big
milestone, entertains many, launches good careers
By Connie Bloom
Beacon Journal
staff writer
Ohio - When Larry
Snider strikes up the band, he does it with trash cans and the odd
car part.
``When we play gigs, people look at the steel
drums and say this sound can't be coming from trash cans, but
Mia Gormandy,
16, a Trinidadian high school student with ``intense ability''
when it comes to steel drums, will make her U.S. musical debut
Saturday night with the UA Steel Drum Band.
that's what they are,'' he said. The pacer
of steel drum bands is the iron -- a brake drum.
You probably know Snider's name. The esteemed
professor of music at the University of Akron has earned high praise
for having launched uncounted careers along with the steel drum
program he initiated 25 years ago.
Web Posted - Thursday
April 21,
2005
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Steely Pan alumni reunite after 20 years
by Ryan Finn
Staff Writer
North Carolina - More than 40 people
will soon be filling up the stage at Farthing Auditorium and playing
more than 60 steel drums. If this sounds impossible, perhaps you
need to make arrangements to see it for yourself.
Appalachian State University will host the 20-year reunion concert
of the Steely Pan Steel Band Saturday. Alumni from the band’s
history and special guests will join current members in a one-time
only concert.
“To them, this was
the best experience they had in their college education, and they
want to share that with the kids we have now,” Sharpe Chair
professor and Steely Pan director Dr. Scott R. Meister said of the
band’s alumni.
Web Posted - Thursday
April 21,
2005
Arizona Daily Wildcat
YOUNG MUSICIANS DIG CARIBBEAN TUNE OF A
DIFFERENT DRUM
Panmaster Ray Holman told Stricker student
Jeremy Smith (left) that he's "a natural" on the steel drum.
photo by Marge Neal
Maryland -
Tropical-style instruments provide flair
by Marge Neal
A local middle school steel drum band has come a
long way since six students started playing ragtag, hand-me-down
drums at 7 a.m. on Fridays.
General John Stricker Middle School's Carib-bean-inspired
musical group still has its original "starter kit" of instruments
donated by Catonsville High School's music department five years
ago, but the group has added new drums each year, increased its
repertoire and taken its show on the road.
This week, the young musicians are under the
tutelage of "panmaster" Ray Holman, a composer, arranger and steel
drum performer from Trinidad.
WORLD STEELBAND MUSIC
FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL CHANGE OF VENUE
Trinidad -
PAN TRINBAGO - WORLD STEELBAND MUSIC FESTIVAL SINCERELY APOLOGIZES
FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED WITH THE LATEST CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE
STAGING OF THE FINALS OF THE WORLD STEELBAND MUSIC FESTIVAL -
2004-2005 - ORCHESTRA CATEGORY.
On April 1st 2005 - whilst in the midst of preparations, Pan
Trinbago was informed by the London Secretariat that they were
unable to deliver the Event as planned in the timescale - with the
Event scheduled for May 28th to June 4th 2005.
It is to be noted that the London Secretariat had recommended the
re-scheduling of the Event from October 2001 to the new dates in
May/June 2005.
Given that the cancellation of the Event in London, England was not
Pan Trinbago's preferred option, and in our commitment to fulfill
what we know as our obligation to the hundreds of dedicated
pannists, and supporters have opted to pursue the Event in New York,
U.S.A. as an alternative location for the Finals. Additionally, Pan
Trinbago recognizes this as a more feasible proposition.
OUR NEW DATE FOR THE ORCHESTRA FINALS - JUNE 19TH 2005
THE NEW VENUE: PARAMOUNT THEATRE, MADISON SQUARE GARDENS, NEW YORK
U.S.A
Again, we regret any inconvenience and thank you for the continued
support. Please continue to check for up-dates via
our websites:
www.worldsteelbandfestival.com and
www.pantrinbago.co.tt
Patrick Arnold
President Pan Trinbago
Chairman WSMF Committee
Web Posted -
Monday
April 18,
2005
When Steel Talks
- Exclusive
Desperadoes Win This
Round...
Bradley prevails in
Pan In the 21st Century
Trinidad - In
Pan Down Memory Lane La Horquetta Pan Groove with Duvonne
Stewart's arrangement of J. C. Lodge's Someone Loves You Honey
took first place honors. World Wide was in second position, and Ice
Water Pan Ensemble (the single pan band incarnation of conventional
Merrytones Steel Orchestra) had to settle for third place. The latter
had been in the lead coming out of the preliminary phase. The show got
underway shortly before 7:00 PM, a bit later than the advertised 6:00 PM
start.
In
an exclusive follow-up with Clive Bradley, arranger for Desperadoes, the
ace musician told
When Steel Talks
that "in all
my experience, I was never called upon to do that type of work, changing
tempos and stuff. The selection (the version I worked from) was made
for that type of thing. In the [John Legend] video, the guy is playing
a piano, and there is a bass and a drum as well, and the guy is singing
his ass off. And there are only three chords in the whole tune, but the
way he [John Legend] put the chords together, it suited my liking. It
was the first time I had done that type of work, and everybody seemed to
be enthused. The band did a good job."
Web Posted - Monday
April 18,
2005
When Steel Talks
The Master Does It Again...
Desperadoes Take Pan In The 21st Century
Trinidad - On Saturday night Desperadoes
Steel Orchestra won the Pan In The 21st Century competition with their
rendition of John Legend's Ordinary People arranged by master
musician Clive Bradley. It was just one of those performances. The
audience seemed to know within the first 30 seconds that it was going to
be special. When it was over the audience erupted with applause and a
partial standing ovation. They knew indeed that it was one of those
memorable, very special performances and Clive Bradley and Desperadoes
had done it again - with a classic performance and
arrangement that will be talked about for the ages. The love-hate
romance that has endured for over 30 years has again reproduced a gem.
Desperadoes beat into second place, this year's 2005 panorama champion
Phase II Pan Groove, who did a version of Michael Jackson's Billie
Jean arranged by the great Len "Boogsie" Sharpe.
Desperadoes at the
semi-finals of the 2005 Panorama
In an exclusive follow-up, Bradley told
When Steel Talks that "In all my
experience, I was never called upon to do that type of work, changing
tempos and stuff. The selection (the version I worked from) was made for
that type of thing."
Web Posted -
Monday
April 18,
2005
Trinidad Newsday
Despers goes Pan in the 21st Century
Trinidad -
THE 15 minutes of fireworks which started at 11.00 pm was the perfect
celebration for what followed one hour later. There was jubilation on
stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Saturday night as WITCO
Desperadoes and La Horquetta Pan Groove were crowned winners in the TSTT
sponsored Pan in The 21st Century and Pan Down Memory Lane competitions.
For the third year running, arranger Duvonne Stewart placed the
Arima-based La Horquetta Pan Groove in winners’ row in the Pan Down
Memory Lane competition. Stewart took JC Lodge’s “Someone Loves You
Honey” and made it into a gem for pan while his charges executed the
arrangement with minor flaws. After their performance it was all over,
bar the shouting.
Not so many years ago, Hyacinth Forrester suffered a
massive stroke that left her unable to move one side of her body.
The 11 female members of the
Blenman Steel Sounds, of the Christopher Blenman Senior Center, with
two friends and band leader Alston Jack.
But today, as she taps her toes and sways to the music while jamming
expertly away on a steel pan, you'd never know it.
"Now I play everything," said Forrester, 75, who is originally from
Jamaica and prefers to call herself "a recycled teenager" rather than a
senior citizen.
Metamora, Illinois - One of the world's leading steel drum players
will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Metamora Township High School
auditorium.
The performance by Ken "Professor" Philmore of Trinidad is part of a
two-day gathering of steel drum enthusiasts next weekend at the high
school.
The group, known as the International Association of
Pan Enthusiasts, is an organization dedicated to the preservation,
promotion and development of the steel pan. Convention attendees will
include a wide spectrum of pan enthusiasts, ranging from professional
players and manufacturers to casual pannists and spectators.
Web Posted - Wednesday
April 13,
2005
Valley City Times Record
Steel Drum
Band, Handbell Choir will be featured in Sunday concert
North Dakota - A concert featuring small
music ensembles from Valley City State University will be held Sunday,
April 17, at 3 p.m. in Foss Hall's Froemke Auditorium. The Steel Drum
Band and the Handbell Choir will perform, followed by a demonstration of
the new VCSU Drumline.
Sigurd Johnson, PhD, director of bands, started the Steel Drum Band in
2001. A generous donation from Harvey amd Diane Shilling allowed Johnson
to purchase the steel drums. The ensemble, with its distinctive
Caribbean flavor, has been a popular addition to VCSU's music program.
"Although I conduct large ensembles, directing small ensembles also
provides a great deal of satisfaction," Johnson said. "Students interact
in a personal way, and the interdependence of the small group fosters
real fellowship within the group."
Web Posted - Wednesday
April 13,
2005
The Herald (Harare)
Chipawo Launches Steel Band
Zimbabwe
- CHILDREN Performing Arts Workshop (Chipawo) launched its steel
band last week at the National Arts Gallery of Zimbabwe.
The launch ceremony coincided with
the 200th anniversary celebrations of the great Danish writer, Hans
Christian Andersen, a prominent fairy stories writer.
The band uses drums that previously
contained oil or paint.
The drums are unique in that they
are tuned differently to suit modern musical instrument requirements
like alto, bass, turner and soprano to complement each other when music
is being played.
Web Posted - Wednesday
April 13,
2005
Trinidad Guardian
13-year-old Stuns Seasoned Audience
By Yvonne Webb
Trinidad -
Adrianna, daughter of the famous steelband captain Steve
Achaiba, who holds the distinction
of leading the only south band , Hatters, to win a national Panorama
competition, left for Ohio to audition for a place in the School of
Creative and Performing Arts on April 5.
Prodigy pannist Adrianna Achaiba plays War 2004 as a tribute to De
Fosto’s 2004 Panorama contribution.
The Naparima Girls’ High School
student’s dream is to become a lecturer of music while continuing to
perform and compose music. She also plays the piano.
Born a musical prodigy, Adrianna has
three CDs, the first (Steelband Prodigy at 9), and Merry Little
Christmas and Hands of an Angel. She has also won numerous local
competitions and has toured England and Canada where she played at the
opening of Caribana.
Web Posted - Tuesday
April 12,
2005 Beaver County Times
Allegheny Times
University of Notre Dame band to perform with
steel drums in Ambridge
Robyn Russo, Times Staff
AMBRIDGE - Maybe it was
the balmy, at-last-it's-spring weather. Maybe it was pent-up energy
from a morning spent hunched over the bubble forms for state
standardized tests.
The
Ambridge High School marching band and steel drum band will be
performing a special concert with the Notre Dame band. Student
Erin Wozniak, 17, practices the steel drum.
The Times / Lucy Schaly
Or perhaps it was just the knowledge that they'd be leaving for a
Myrtle Beach concert the next day that left the members of the
Ambridge Area High School Steel Drum Band literally bouncing around
the basement band room Wednesday morning, putting each other in casual
headlocks, debating shoe styles and showing off impromptu drum solos.
But when Ambridge band director Sal Aloe and steel drum director Todd
Hartman took their place in front of the 30-some steel drum players,
the teenagers quickly trained their eyes on their sheet music and
drums. They don't just play, they perform in the full sense of the
word - dropping low over their drums to start one song with just the
softest tones, spinning around with their hands raised during a break
in one melody.
Web Posted -
Monday, April 11th 2005
Trinidad Express
Renegades out Pan in 21st Century final
...Ice Water tops single-pan
prelims
Terry Joseph
A young bass
player during WITCO Desperadoes Steel Orchestra's
performance of "Ordinary People" at The Pan in the 21st
Century competition at the band's pan theatre in Laventille
Trinidad
- Former Pan in the 21st Century
champions, bpTT Renegades, whose rendition of Joey Lewis'
"Pint-a-Wine" won the contest two years ago, is among the
power-bands eliminated after the preliminary round of the
competition for conventional orchestras closed Thursday.
Topping that category was
reigning national Panorama title-holders Petrotrin Phase II Pan
Groove, playing Len "Boogsie" Sharpe's treatment of Michael
Jackson's "Billie Jean", with a tie for second spot between
Sagicor Exodus doing the Simon & Garfunkel classic "Bridge Over
Troubled Water" and Witco Desperadoes, who opted for the
phenomenal current smash hit by John Legend, "Ordinary People".
Web Posted - Thursday
April 7,
2005
westfaelische-rundschau
The Largest Steelpan Ever
By by Peter Ring
Germany -
Steeldrums
with 1.15 meters of diameters. The instrument does not look shining
only, it has also a outstanding sound volume. (WR picture: Franz
Luthe)
"alone I would have created, say that
never" Schulz, which is pleased about support of the University of
Dortmund, their production point and that Dr. Werner Hombergs. They all
helped to bring the drums at least roughly in form.
Web Posted - Friday
April 1,
2005
Trinidad Newsday
Pan goes down memory lane in Tobago tonight
By SEAN NERO
Trinidad - FIVE steelbands
in two categories will set the stage for pan music action in the 2005
edition of Pan Trinbago�s Pan Down Memory Lane, and the TSTT-sponsored
Pan In the 21st Century competitions, in Tobago tonight. Showtime is 7
pm. Joint conventional defending champion Katzenjammers will come up
against NLCB Buccooneers and Our Boys Steel Orchestras, while Dem Boys
and Metro Stars are the featured groups in the single pan band segment,
in the first of six-preliminary rounds of competition. Conventional
contestants are required to play tunes selected from a contemporary
world beat repertoire, and the respective arrangers adapting the desired
musical items should be innovative and creative according to a release
from Pan Trinbago.
Web Posted -
Thursday
April 28,
2005
When Steel Talks
- Exclusive
Merrytones Steel
Orchestra - Trinidad
Then, Now and Beyond
Eric
McAllister -
former Captain,
Merrytones Steel Orchestra
Trinidad - Former captain
Eric McAllister takes pride in introducing his band, Merrytones Steel Orchestra in
Trinidad, to the global pan community. He presently plays the quadraphonics,
a physically demanding instrument. McAllister is now part of
the executive management of the band. Merrytones Steel
Orchestra is a three-time winner of the Panorama title in the small
conventional steel orchestra category - 1995, 2004, 2005. In the years prior to 1995 Merrytones was a large band,
the category which usually fields up to one hundred players and over.
The majority of
players in Japan are women. Many Japanese like the sound of
the steelpan. It is my private opinion the sound of the
steelpan is similar to the "koto" which is a Japanese traditional
instrument. It's arrangement is also similar to the samisen of the
northeast district. Steelpan is in its beginning stages in
Japan but with the festival coming it will continue to grow.
Web Posted -
Monday
April 25,
2005
When Steel Talks
-
Press Release
Global Steelpan Music News
BRIDGES CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET
New York - April 25, 2005
Global Steelpan Music News (GSMN) has quickly established itself as
the online version of the "CNN" of steelpan music news - 'Steelpan
news from any where in globe at a moment's notice.' GSMN is a division
of the already highly popular
www.panonthenet.com website.
GSMN is one of the most important news sources for steelpan-related
activities. It's news section delivers information on a constant
24-hour basis, with it's own special events coverage and exclusive
interviews. Through it's identification of current and existing news
media, it provides sustained, and up-to-the-minute coverage. GSMN has
become a favorite of steelpan music educators, and steelpan luminaries
such as Robert Greenidge, Pelham Goddard, Andy Narell, Liam Teague and
Clive Bradley among many others.
The music entertainment and travel industries pay particular attention
to the GSMN as its information translates directly to economic
advantages and financial windfalls. Global Steelpan Music News - GSMN
(
http://www.news.panonthenet.com ) specializes in providing
historical data, current facts, figures and trivia, and also utilizes
the necessary rich multi media technology in the delivery of its
content. For example the recent GSMN special tribute to Women and
Steelpan received high praise from the performing arts, educational,
historical and cultural sectors from around the world.
Web Posted -
April 18,
2005
When Steel Talks -
Pan , Calypso and the Calypsonian Special
Lord Kitchener - The Grand Master
1920 - 2000
A Tribute to
Kitchener,
our Beloved Griot
by Khalick J. Hewitt
New York - Kitchener
was a simple man. He was not charismatic as Sparrow or Duke (two
other top calypsonians) but what he lacked in charisma he gained in
lyrical superiority. Kitch was a master lyricist.
He
was a Griot (African storyteller) and displayed that inert quality in his
many classic calypsos like: ‘Old Lady Walk a Mile’ ‘Mango Tree’ ‘The Road’
‘Mama this is Mas’ ‘A New Born Nation’ ‘Mas in Germany’ ‘Belmont Young
Gals’ ‘Pan Night & Day’ ‘Trini & Bajan’ ‘Slippery Anne’ ‘When a Man is
poor’ ‘Pan in Harmony’ ‘Toco Band’ and the many beautiful gems that will
remain in the halls of classic calypso for ever.
Full Story
Web Posted -
April 16,
2005
When Steel Talks -
Pan , Calypso and the Calypsonian Special
Lord Relator and Robert Greenidge
Performing Live At Stage 2
Antigua
- Lord Relator and Robert Greenidge
represent two of the finest musicians to ever grace the calypso
and steelpan music genre. In our continued celebration of the Pan,
Calypso and the Calypsonian we have Lord Relator and Robert Greenidge
performing the Mighty Sparrow's Classic Jean and Dinah in
Stage 2...
Tonight’s edition of The Jazz Lime
on NCC-TV (Channels 4 & 16) features the work of pan virtuoso,
composer and arranger, Robert Greenidge,
performing with Ralph MacDonald and the New York All Stars.
The hour-long programme, produced by
Linus Pitt and Terry Joseph, was developed
largely from footage taken at the launch of
Greenidge’s CD, From the Heart, a travelling show, the
Trinidad leg of which took place at Hotel
NormandieUnder the Trees on
December 13, 2003.
For the launch,
Greenidge was surrounded by internationally acclaimed musical
talents, coming together as The New York All Stars, under the musical
direction of Ralph MacDonald, with vocalist
NadirahShakoor and additional
percussion from homeboy TambaGwinde, whose resume includes an extensive
tour of duty with the late Andre Tanker.
The band also showcases the talents
of some of the most revered names in contemporary jazz, including
guitarist Jeff Mironov, drummer Chris
Parker, keyboardist Clinton “JR” Crawford, Will Lee on bass and the
venerable Tom Scott on alto saxophone, with percussionist MacDonald,
backing Greenidge’s leads on the
double-second pans.
Web Posted -
April 11,
2005
When Steel Talks
In
The Pan House
Live Performance
Jambalasi
featuring New York Stars Freddy
Harris, Andy Akiho and Kareem Thompson are featured in the Pan House with
show stopping performance...
On June 5th, 2004, Sesame
Flyers International staged their first "Steel Pan Extravaganza."
The show featured the composing, arranging and playing skills of young
talents such as Freddy Harris and Andy Akiho, among others. Remember
these names - you're going to be hearing them a lot in the near future.
Indeed, this event showcased the next generation of pan composers,
players and arrangers. And the future of pan is in good hands.
Hear
and see what makes New York Pan so special on this fabulous DVD direct from
the panyards of the Big Apple. Once again, Basement Recordings inc.
takes you on an audio visual experience unlike any other. This year,
Basement takes you to five of New York's most exciting panyards. 2004
NY Panorama champions, Sonatas, along with CASYM,
Marsicans, D'Radoes and Pantonic.
Exhilarating arrangements by
the likes of Yohan Popwell, Arddin Herbert, Pelham Goddard and Clive
Bradley. NY Panyards 2004 DVD takes you into the panyards like
only Basement Recordings can, using their exclusive "Box and One" audio
capturing technique.
Click on "see sample"
to review...
Web Posted -
April 7,
2005
When Steel Talks
Pan , Calypso and the Calypsonian Special
Sesame Flyers
International,
Frankie McIntosh & His Circle of Friends
deliver an Evening of Pan and Jazz
Brooklyn,
NY - The
mature audience present alternately sang, swayed and danced in their seats,
through the first musical set delivered by McIntosh and his musicians, which
opened with the classic Blue Bossa. The almost hour-long first
half included a well-conceived music mix for the palates of those present -
Breezin', Tay Lay Lay, a taste of Bob Marley's Jammin', a Medley
of Calypsonian Shadow's classics, the Lord Kitchener's Sugar Bum Bum,
and Knocking On Heaven's Door,
to name but a few.
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The
steelpan is now a permanent fixture in most orchestras and big bands and
could be heard as a solo instrument on television and radio programs.
Pan giants like Len Boogsie Sharpe, Robert Greenidge, Clive Bradley, Jit
Samaroo, Pelham Goddard, Bertie Marshall and Ellie Mannette have taken
the innovative instrument to the top of the musical ladder and it is
beyond one’s imagination to tell the future of this acoustic instrument.
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establishment astutely recognized the importance of their community,
and therefore remained sensitive to its needs. Subsequently
the Callistes have opted to carry on in the tradition of the
preceding establishment, and ensure that clientele from their
surrounding community continue to feel welcome, while simultaneously
catering to consumers from all areas.
Organisers
of the annual WeBeat St James Festival have decided to honour master
musician and homeboy, Pelham Goddard, for his contribution to local
culture and the mosaic that is the City That Never Sleeps.
He
was a Griot (African storyteller) and displayed that inert quality in his
many classic calypsos like: ‘Old Lady Walk a Mile’ ‘Mango Tree’ ‘The Road’
‘Mama this is Mas’ ‘A New Born Nation’ ‘Mas in Germany’ ‘Belmont Young
Gals’ ‘Pan Night & Day’ ‘Trini & Bajan’ ‘Slippery Anne’ ‘When a Man is
poor’ ‘Pan in Harmony’ ‘Toco Band’ and the many beautiful gems that will
remain in the halls of classic calypso for ever.
finest musicians to ever grace the calypso
and steelpan music genre. In our continued celebration of the Pan,
Calypso and the Calypsonian we have Lord Relator and Robert Greenidge
performing the 
Jambalasi
featuring New York Stars Freddy
Harris, Andy Akiho and Kareem Thompson are featured in the Pan House with
show stopping performance... 
Brooklyn,
NY - The
mature audience present alternately sang, swayed and danced in their seats,
through the first musical set delivered by McIntosh and his musicians, which
opened with the classic Blue Bossa. The almost hour-long first
half included a well-conceived music mix for the palates of those present -
Breezin', Tay Lay Lay, a taste of Bob Marley's Jammin', a Medley
of Calypsonian Shadow's classics, the Lord Kitchener's Sugar Bum Bum,
and Knocking On Heaven's Door,
to name but a few.