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2006 Calendar of Steelpan Music
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Dec. 31, 2006 |
- Belfast's 'New Years by The Bay'
features performers mime and musician Scot Canon, the
Steelin Thunder Steel Drum Band, the reggae and hip hop
band, Straight Up, and more. Event time: 2:00 PM.
S teelin' Thunder performs from 6:00 - 8:30 PM.
Venue: the Belfast Boathouse, 34 Commercial St., Belfast,
Maine, USA.
- Pan Jazz Brunch features a
Caribbean-inspired menu to the beat of a s teel band
jamming to jazz music. Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
Venue: Crossroads Entertainment Complex, 4103
Baltimore Ave., Bladensburg, Maryland, USA
- The 12-member Delta State
University Steel Band performs in the 2006 Hometown
Gator Bowl Parade. Time: 3:00 PM. Venue:
downtown Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
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Dec. 29, 2006 |
- Steelpan festival and Salsa
Night. Featuring
Abracadabra, Extempo, Quilombo and Pan Phonics Steelbands,
and other special guests. Door opens: 6:00 PM.
Showtime: 6:30 PM. DJ will deliver salsa music after
performances. Venue: Kammgarn, Baumgartenstrasse 19, 8200
Schaffhausen, SWITZERLAND.
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Dec. 19, 2006 |
- Taurean Clarke Quartet CD Launch.
Featuring Taurean Clarke on
steelpans, Jasmine Jones on drums, Tim Ball on Electric
bass and Hayoun Lee on piano. Time: 9:30 PM.
Venue: the Central Restaurant, 603 Markham Street, (south of
Bloor Street and 1 block west of Bathurst Street), Mirvish
Village, Toronto, CANADA
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Dec. 17, 2006 |
- Carols On Steel featuring
Stardust Steel Orchestra, Ebony Steelband, Pantasia
Steelband and DJ Trendsetter. Time: 5.00 - 10.00
PM. Venue: Stardust's Pan Yard, Acton Vale Community
Centre, Beech Avenue, London W3 7JZ. For info contact:
07904 015933
- Robert Greenidge performs in
concert with Shadow in Gala Christmas concert.
Time: 6:00 PM. Venue: Richard Green MS, Barnes Ave.,
Bronx, New York, USA. Call 1 (718) 941-1879 for more
info.
- The Rising Stars Youth Steel
Orchestra celebrates their 25th Anniversary Christmas
Concert. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: the
Reichhold Center for the Arts, 2 John Brewer's Bay, ST.
THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
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Dec. 16, 2006 |
- Robert Greenidge performs in
concert with Shadow in Gala Christmas concert.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: York College Performing Arts
Center, Guy Brewer Ave., Queens, New York, USA.
Call 1 (718) 941-1879 for more info.
- CASYM Steel Orchestra presents its
annual Carols and Classics Christmas Concert featuring
performances by CASYM's Class I, Class II, Stageside and
many more. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: the
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York,
USA.
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Dec. 15, 2006 |
- Meyer Levin Junior High School
presents its Winter Concert. Featuring performances by
the school's choruses, Higher Levin steel orchestra,
and the school sixth, seventh and eight grade steelband
groups. Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue:
Meyer Levin Junior High, 5909 Beverly Road (corner
Beverly Road & Ralph Avenue), Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Dec. 10, 2006 |
- Percussion Ensemble /
Steel Drum Group and Trojan Pep Band / Wind Ensemble
- are all featured. Time: 7: 30 PM. Venue:
Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR,
2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
Call 1 (501) 569-3294 for more info.
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Dec. 7, 2006 |
- Oasis Folks Arts Academy present "The
Path", a Story About the Evolution of Oasis. Time for
the cocktail hour, preceding the show - 3:00 - 4:00 PM.
The Path, featuring performances by the Oasis Youth
Steelpan Ensemble, and the rest of the talented youths.
Venue: the former United Hospital in Newark, New Jersey,
USA. Contact Charlene Romano for more info and
tickets, at 1 (908) 397-1970.
- Salah's Steelpan Academy presents the
13th edition of its annual Winter Steelpan Fest
entitled "Classics To Calypsoes." The event brings
together the Steelpan groups from the public schools and
the local Montreal community. Special guest Pannists
from Toronto are Mark Mosca and Hameed Shaqq the PanPiper.
Time: 3:00 Pm. Venue: Royal Vale Auditorium,
5851 Somerled Avenue, N.D.G. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA.
- Vermeer Quartet Symphonic Center
Series presents Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703,
Deborah Fischer Teason: Cadences ( with Liam Teague, steel
pan), Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.
Time: 3:00 PM. Venue: Buntrock Hall, Chicago
Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois,
USA
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Dec. 5, 2006 |
- Vermeer Quartet NIU Series presents
Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703, Deborah Fischer
Teason: Cadences (with Liam Teague, steel pan),
Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132. Time: 8:00 PM.
Venue: Boutell Memorial
Concert Hall in the Music Building on Lucinda Avenue,
Northern Illinois University
School of Music, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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Dec. 4, 2006 |
- The Engine Room and Friends, featuring
performances by Robert Clarke and
Kyron Akal. Time:
7:00 - 10:00 PM. Venue: Inn On The Green, Thorpe
Close, Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5XL, ENGLAND.
Contact: 07850 715871 for more info.
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Dec. 3, 2006 |
- St. Mary's Central High School
present its annual Christmas Concert. The
school's steeldrum band will perform.
Time: 2:30 PM. Venue: School Gymnasium, St. Mary's
Central High School, 1025 North 2nd Street, Bismarck, North
Dakota, USA
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Dec. 2, 2006 |
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BAS (British Association of Steelbands) 8TH
ANNUAL AWARDS
Reception from: 7:00 P.M. Venue: Holiday
Inn Bloomsbury, Coram Street, London WC1, ENGLAND. For
tickets and more info: 07956 546724 or 07944 156006,
or email
info@panpodium.com
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Despers USA
presents Rags to Riches: A Fund Raising Bus Ride
to Atlantic City. Departure time: 7:00 P.M.
Departure venue: Despers USA Pan Loft, 621 Classon
Avenue, (between Atlantic and Pacific Avenues), Brooklyn,
New York, USA. For tickets and more info: 1
(917) 648-2491; 1 (718) 919-1893
- The Humboldt State University (HSU)
Calypso Band and Percussion Ensemble perform.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: the Van Duzer Theatre, Humboldt
State University, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata, California, USA
- The University of the Virgin Islands
Humanities and Social Sciences Division presents the Music
Program's Annual Christmas Concert, featuring the concert
band, directed by A. Venzen, the concert choir, by L. Reyes;
the jazz ensemble, by M. Lamkin; and t he steel pan
ensemble, directed by Shenelle Warner. Time:
8 PM. Venue: the Reichhold Center for the Arts,
2 John Brewer's Bay, ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.
For more information, call Lorna Young-Wright, coordinator,
at 1 (340) 691-1191
- The Alafia River Boat Parade & Chili
Cook Off features many fun activities and live music.
Performers include the Progress Village Singers, the
Bloomingdale Ambassadors Chorus, Dowdell Middle School Bell
Choir, Bloomingdale High School Orchestra and the Rodgers
Middle School Steel Drum Band. Time: 5:00 - 8:00
PM. Venue: Riverview Civic Center, 11020 Park
Drive, Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.
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Dec. 1, 2006 |
- The Percussion Ensemble and
Panoramic Steel Band perform. Time: 7:30 PM.
Venue: Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center,
BYU Campus, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
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Nov. 28, 2006 |
- The Islanders Steel Drum Band
perform at their fall concert featuring music by Andy Narell
and Tito Puente. Also featured is the University of
Montana Percussion Ensemble. Time: 7:30 PM.
Venue: The University Theatre, School of Fine Arts, 32
Campus Drive, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana,
USA
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Nov. 29,
2006 |
- Rainbow High School Steelpan
Ensemble presents a Steelpan Concert at its Annual
Christmas Treat for the less fortunate. Distribution
of gifts, refreshments, etc. Venue: SOS
Children's Village, Tlokweng, BOTSWANA, AFRICA
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Nov. 27, 2006 |
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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra will
remember their arranger, the late master musician and
composer, Clive Bradley
at a memorial service
led by Fr. Clyde Harvey, and
Pan Yard Jam featuring Desperadoes, Tokyo Steel
Orchestra and Valley Harps in a musical tribute to the
“Maestro” as Bradley. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue:
Desperadoes pan yard, Laventille Road, East Dry River,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I. Contact:
Anthony Mc Quilkin, Asst. Manager for more info at 1 (868)
685-2241
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Nov.
26, 2006 |
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Moods of Pan 8. Three-day pan
festival,
hosted by Gemonites Steel Orchestra. Day Three:
Another Side of Pan - the Jazz Influence.
Featured performers are the
Happy Lewis Quintet featuring Babu Samuels on steelpan,
Pantasy, Trinidad All Stars, Gemonites and Lord
Relator. Time: 6:30 PM. Venue: Deanery
Grounds, St. John's, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, W.I.
- Pantonic Steel Orchestra invites all
to their - of the life of their late master
musician and arranger - the legendary Clive Bradley.
Time: 3:00 - 7:00 PM. Cafe Omar, corner
Nostrand Avenue & Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Call 1 (718) 434-0231 for more info.
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Nov. 25, 2006 |
- Starlift Steel Orchestra will launch
its 2007 Carnival Band, "Laissez Le Bon Boulement des
Periodes," (Let the good times roll . Featured
artistes include Tripolians, Woodbrook Playboyz,
Scrunter's Pan Groove, and host Starlift, as well
as DJs Crosby Sounds and Sir Charles. Time: 9:00 PM.
Venue: Starlift's House of Music, #1 Mucurapo Rd.
Ext., Mucurapo, Woodbrook, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I..
- Moods of Pan 8. Three-day pan
festival,
hosted by Gemonites Steel Orchestra. Day Two: "Keep
Pan Alive with Five." Open to all Moods of Pan
participants.
Performers will be in groups of five musicians - from St.
Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, and Antigua & Barbuda.
Also featured in the Five Alive are quintets from
Antigua's schools. Also showcased: Junior Steelpan
Solo Competition. Age groups are 12 and under, and 13 -
17. Time: 7:30 PM. Venue: Deanery
Grounds, St. John's, ANTIGUA &
BARBUDA, W.I.
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Nov.
24, 2006 |
Moods of Pan 8. Three-day pan
festival, hosted by Gemonites Steel Orchestra. Day One:
Gospel and Pan Night. Featured performers are Holy Family Cathedral
Steel Orchestra, Golden Hands Steel Orchestra, Off Springs pan group,
Potters Moravian Zionites Steelband, Gemonites Steel Orchestra,
Mad For Christ Youth Group and headline act Papa San.
Time: 7:30 PM. Venue: Deanery Grounds,
St. John's, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, W.I.
The Official Commissioning of PanLand -
steelpan facility, is scheduled. Venue:
km 33, Badagry Expressway, Abgara, Lagos, NIGERIA
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Nov.
23, 2006 |
- The Southern Miss Steel Band Combo
performs. Time: 12:05 PM. Venue: St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1116 23rd Ave, Meridian,
Mississippi, USA
- The first-ever Secondary School
Steel Band Competition is scheduled. Orchestras
from four educational institutions, including Greensprings
School, are expected to participate. Venue:
Lagos, NIGERIA
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Nov.
19, 2006 |
- Invaders Steel Orchestra presents
their Annual Fundraiser "Pan, Parang and Pork (3Ps)."
Proceeds go towards acquiring the land the band has occupied
for more than sixty years Featured performers
are Scrunter, Marcia Miranda, Wendy Sheppard, Luces
Brilliantes, DJ Crosby Sounds and event organizers
Invaders Steel Orchestra. Time: 5:30 PM. Venue:
the Queen’s Park Oval, Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD &
TOBAGO. More info: call Edgar at 1 (868)
730-6677; Verna at 1 (868) 768-9978
- Al Foster's Treble Clef Music School
celebrates its 2nd Annual Fundraising Brunch & Showcase
featuring performances from its steelpan students.
Time: 1:00 PM. Doors open at 12:00. Venue: the
Jamaican Canadian Association. (JCA), 995 Arrow road (off
Finch Ave, west of highway 400), Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
For more info call 1 (416) 743-3678.
- Hospice of Stark County's presents
their 7th annual Concert. Featuring Judy Sicker and
Tom Byers, Massillon Washingtonians Show Choir , Dover
Steel Drum Ensemble, Luke Wilson and Nicole Garlando and
Company. Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Venue: Lions
Lincoln, 156 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, Canton, Ohio, USA
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Nov.
14, 2006 |
- The Inside Out Steel Pan Project
performs with special guest and featured artist, Ray
Holman. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: One World Theater,
7701 Bee Caves Road, Austin, Texas, USA
- Now Open! Salah Wilson and the
Panpiper have opened
a Steelpan Franchise Store -STEELPAN PLUS
with stores in Montreal and Toronto, CANADA.
http://www.steelpanplus.com/
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Nov. 12, 2006 |
- Steel pannist Leon "Foster" Thomas
performs with his band Krossover,
as part of a large cast of artistes, at the South Florida
Jazz & Heritage Festival. Event time: 11:30 AM - 6:30
PM. Leon Foster and Krossover appear at: 1:00 PM.
Venue: Calder Race Course, next door to Dolphin
Stadium, 2269 Dan Marino Boulevard, Miami Gardens,
Florida, USA
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Nov.
11, 2006 |
- The Inside Out Steelband
performs with Ray Holman at the Terrace Concert as
part of the 2006 PASIC Convention. Time: 11:00 AM.
Venue: Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, USA
- University of Arizona and
University of Texas Steelbands deliver World
Clinic/Performance, with a cameo by Ray Holman - as
part of the 2006 PASIC Convention. Time: 1:00
PM. Venue: Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas,
USA
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Nov. 10, 2006 |
- Pan Trinbago T.C. Inc. hosts its Award
Function “ Honouring The Panguard,” a tribute to the
surviving members of a group of pannists who, fifty-five
(55) years ago, introduced to the wider world the music of
what is Trinidad & Tobago's national instrument.
Among the recipients are members of the defunct
Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO)
and
The First National Steelband including
Edgar Pouchet Jr., Lennox “Bobby” Mohammed,
Stephen Sardinha, Anthony Williams, Dr. Ellie Mannette, Hugh
Borde, Clifford Alexis, Emmanuel Riley, Glenford Soberts,
Oscar Pile, Errol Zephrine, Neville Muraldo
and
Sterling Betancourt MBE. Time: 8:00 PM.
Venue: The Festival Ballroom, Crowne Plaza, Wrightson Road,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
- The Miami University Steel Band
performs as part of the 2006 Henry County Concert Series.
Time: 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Venue:
Bundy Auditorium, 601 Parkview Drive, New Castle, Indiana,
USA
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Nov.
9, 2006 |
- Texas Tech Steel Drum
Band-Apocalypso Now give a World Clinic/Performance as
part of the 2006 PASIC Convention. Time: 1:00
PM. Venue: Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas,
USA
- Texas State University Panorama
Steel Band with guest artist Darren Dyke perform as part
of the 2006 PASIC Convention, part of the Terrace Concert
series. Time: 3:00 PM. Venue: Austin
Convention Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
- The Miami University Steel Band
performs as part of the Connersville Art Series. Time:
7:30 PM. Venue: Connersville Middle School, 1900 N.
Grand Ave., Connersville, Indiana, USA
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Nov.
4, 2006 |
- Pan Arts Network (P.A.N.) presents its
3rd Annual AUTUMN LEAVES ON STEEL. Featuring Dane
Gulston, Canada's Pan Pioneers, Selwyn 'Sello' Gomes, Tommy
Crichlow, Kenrick Headley from Vancouver; Robby
Charles, Giselle Bishop
and
Gareth Burges from Toronto. Doors open at 6:00
PM. Showtime: 7:00 PM. Venue: Bathurst
Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst St. (south of Bloor St),
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
- Pan Sonatas, Inc. presents a
Fundraiser - 'A Bus Ride to Mohegan Sun,' Connecticut.
Time: Bus departs at 8:00 PM sharp. Departure
venue: 1254 Sterling Place, (Sonatas Panyard between Troy &
Albany Avenues), Brooklyn, New York, USA. Call for
more info: Damion: 1 (347) 247-5750; Selwyn: 1
(347) 268-1239; Mack: 1 (718) 496-5133
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Nov. 1, 2006 |
- Pan By The Bay
- part of the Independence Day Festival, f eaturing
thirteen of Dominica's established, and up-and-coming
steelband groups. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue:
The Bayfront, in front of the Garraway Hotel, Dame Eugenia
Charles Boulevard, Roseau, DOMINICA, W.I.
- School of Pan competition.
Venue: Antigua & Barbuda, W.I.
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Oct.
29, 2006 |
- Family Series - Caribbean Cruise.
Featuring the Miller South Steel Drum Band with
Christopher Wilkins, conductor, Juneteenth Cultural Club,
and Pointe West dancers. Caribbean music, New Orleans jazz,
Gottschalk’s Night in the Tropics, Trinidadian calypsos, and
more. Time: 3:00 PM. Venue: E.J.
Thomas Performing Arts Hall, 198 Hill Street, Akron, Ohio,
USA
- Carnegie Hall Family Concert featuring
CASYM Steel Orchestra.
Time: 1:00 PM. Venue: Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall,
corner 57th Street & Seventh Avenue, New York, New York, USA
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Oct. 28,
2006 |
- Steelpan and Jazz Festival.
Giants of Steel Concert featuring Andy Narell &
Sakésho,
Liam Teague & Panoramic, Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe,
and the Giant Steel & Brass Orchestra featuring Phase II
Pan Groove and The Trinidad & Tobago Police Band. Time:
8:00 PM - Midnight. Venue: Jean Pierre Complex,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Oct. 27,
2006 |
- Steelpan and Jazz Festival.
Community Concert featuring Exodus Steel Orchestra,
Jeremy Ledbetter & Cane Fire with Mark Mosca on steelpan,
Alexis Baro, Los Alumnos de San Juan and more.
Time: 7:30 - 11:00 PM. Venue: Exodus Pan
Theatre, Corner St. John's and Eastern Main Road, St.
Augustine, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Oct. 26, 2006 |
- The Cornell Steel Band
performs at the "Bailey Hall Inauguration Concert."
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Bailey Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
- Steelpan and Jazz Festival.
Symposium for Steelband Leaders and Managers - "Accessing
the Global Steelpan Market."
Call: 1 (868) 620 5285 for more info. Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Oct. 24, 2006 |
- Steelpan and Jazz Festival. Community
Concert featuring
Fonclaire Steel Orchestra, Renegades Steel Orchestra,
Adesh Samaroo, Anil Bheem and the BMRZ, K.V. Charles and
more. Time: 5:00 - 10:00 PM. Venue:
Harris Promenade, San Fernando, Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO,
W.I.
- University of Arizona Steel Band
performs. Time: 7:30 PM. Venue: Performing
Arts Center, 1250 West Continental Road, Green Valley,
Arizona, USA
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Oct. 23,
2006 |
- Steelpan and Jazz Festival. Community
Concert featuring
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra, Desperadoes Steel
Orchestra, Jeremy Ledbetter & Cane Fire with Mark
Mosca on steelpan, Shurwayne Winchester and Traffik and
more. Time: 7:30 - Midnight. Venue:
The Amphitheatre, Western Main Roads, St. James,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Oct. 22,
2006 |
- Positive Vibrations Steel Orchestra
in concert at the 10th anniversary of the Cultural
Academy for Excellence (CAFE). Time: 4:00 PM.
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland,
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Oct. 21,
2006 |
- CASYM Steel Orchestra invites
all to their
Victory Party/Appreciation Celebration. Time:
10:00 PM - 4:00 AM. Venue: Cafe Omar, corner Nostrand
Avenue & Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Call
1 (718) 864-4117 or 1 (917) 337- 5282 for
more info.
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Oct. 15,
2006 |
- Pan Rising Show salutes
Aubrey 'Lacu' Samuel's 30th Anniversary, and Roots
Steelband's 10th Anniversary - featuring
Lacu Samuel, Roots Steelband, Ebonites Steel Orchestra
and more. Time: 6:30 PM. Venue: Crystal
Palace Ball Room, Grand Royal Antiguan Beach Resort, 976
Deep Bay, St Johns, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA. More info and
tickets: Kuma Rodney: 1 (268) 464-3778; 1 (268) 726-8760.
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Oct. 8,
2006 |
- Trinidad North Steel Drum Band
(from Media, Pennsylvannia) performs at the Nancy Jacobs
Election Party. Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM.
Venue: Wellwood Restaurant, 523 Water Street,
Charlestown, Maryand, USA. For info call
Headquarters: 1 (410) 676-8683.
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Oct. 6,
2006 |
- In celebration of the Chinese
Bicentennial celebrating 200 years of Chinese arrival in
Trinidad and Tobago: The Dragon Can Dance - featuring
drummers, Dragon Dance, Lion Dance, Martial Arts Display,
and the Chinese Bicentennial Steel Ensemble.
Time: 3:00 PM. Venue: Brian Lara Promenade,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Oct. 1,
2006 |
- CARIFESTA -
Closing ceremony and show
featuring performances by visiting and Trinidad and Tobago
contingents, and Exodus Steel Orchestra. Time:
7:00 PM. Venue: Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept. 30, 2006 |
- Panyard Sensations featuring Pan
Knights Steel Orchestra, Santa Cruz Panjammers, Malick
Folk Performers, Shiv Shakti, Ruann Tabralis and Juenes
Agape Youth Choir. Prelude and show build-up with Pan
Round de Neck, carnival characters, and more - time:
7:00 PM. Panyard sensations showtime: 8:00 PM.
Venue: Pan Knights panyard, 147 Eastern Main Road,
Barataria, TRINIDAD, W.I.
- Trinidad North Steel Drum Band (from
Media, Pennsylvannia) performs at the WALK NOW CURE AUTISM.
Time: 10:00 AM - Noon. Venue: The New
Philadelphia Phillies Stadium, Citizens Bank Ball Park,
Philadelphia, USA.
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Sept. 29, 2006 |
- CARIFESTA - Community event hosting
members of the Jamaican contingent.
Voices of Pan and the Elders. 'Elders'
from Renegades
discuss and trace the beginnings of Renegades Steel
Orchestra.
Performances by
Renegades, Harlem Syncopators, All Stars and
Tokyo Youth steel orchestras.
Venue: Renegades pan yard, Charlotte Street,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
- Panyard Sensations featuring St.
James Tripolians, Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, the Chinese
Bicentennial Ensemble and host band Silver Stars,
Wendy Sheppard, Enrique Moore, Isaac
Blackman, Skatie,
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue:
Silver Stars panyard, 56 Tragarete Road, Newtown, TRINIDAD,
W.I.
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Sept. 28, 2006 |
- CARIFESTA - St. James Tripolians
Steel Orchestra
performs twice nightly for CARIFESTA
Antigua & Barbuda National Youth
Orchestra
perform. A ubrey 'Lacu' Samuel from Antigua & Barbuda
performs. Time: 9:00 - 10:00 PM. Venue:
Main stage, Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
Additional note - this
performance did not take place. Contingents from other
countries were still on the main stage at 11:00 PM.
- CARIFESTA -
Pan Voice
featuring Phase II Pan Groove, Exodus, Trinidad All
Stars, Desperadoes, Renegades, Skiffle Bunch,
with Lydian Singers & Bishop Anstey Choir. Time:
8:00 PM. Venue: Jean Pierre Complex, Hasely Crawford
Stadium, Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept. 27, 2006 |
- CARIFESTA - Valley Harps Steel
Orchestra performs . Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM.
Venue: Stage 4, Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
Angostura Woodbrook Playboyz
perform. Time: 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM.
Venue: Stage 4, Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
Valley Harps Steel Orchestra and Angostura
Woodbrook Playboyz
perform. Time: 10:30 PM - 12:00 AM. Venue:
Stage 4, Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
- Latin Jazz and Beyond concert - with
the "Berklee Brothers" featuring drummer Mark Walker with
Ron Reid on steelpans, Oscar Stagnaro-Bass, Daniel
Ian Smith-woodwinds, Ernesto Diaz-percussion and Alain
Mallet-piano. Time: 8:15 PM. Venue: the Berklee Performance
Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, just south of Boylston
Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. For more info:
ronireid@verizon.net or
rreid@berklee.edu
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Sept.
26, 2006 |
- CARIFESTA - St. James Tripolians
Steel Orchestra performs twice nightly for CARIFESTA
Antigua & Barbuda National Youth Orchestra perform.
Time: 8:30 PM.
Aubrey 'Lacu' Samuel from Antigua & Barbuda performs
circa 9:00 PM
Merrytones Steel Orchestra performs. Time: 9:30
PM. Venue: Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept.
25, 2006 |
- CARIFESTA - St. James Tripolians
Steel Orchestra performs twice nightly for CARIFESTA
Antigua & Barbuda National Youth Orchestra perform.
Time: 8:30 PM.
Merrytones Steel Orchestra performs. Time: 9:30
PM. Venue: Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept. 24, 2006 |
- Panyard Sensations featuring East
Side New Dimension, Dem Boys, other pannists,
Tobago Rio, Calypso Max and more. Time: 8:00 PM.
Venue: Belle Garden, TOBAGO, W.I.
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Couva Joylanders Steel Orchestra host double
celebration -
Panyard Sensations & Joylanders' 45th anniversary.
Cast includes Ella Andall, Darren Sheppard, Tropical
Angel Harps, Earl Brooks, Shiv Shakti, Dexter Theophile,
DJ Wax and Couva Joylanders with saxophone, strings and
voices. Time: 6:00 PM. Venue: the Inshan Ali
Promenade, Couva, TRINIDAD, W.I.
- "Eight of Hearts" concert,
celebrating CARIFESTA IX, a production of the Laventille
Steelband Festival Foundation - featuring Phase II Pan
Groove, Desperadoes, Renegades, Trinidad All Stars,
Starlift, Exodus, Skiffle Bunch and Redemption Sound
Setters. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue is: Laventille
Community Complex, Angostura Street, Eastern Main Road,
Laventille, TRINIDAD.
- CARIFESTA - Pan
Explosion. Time: 6:00 PM.
Venue: Siparia Deltones Pan Theatre, Siparia,
TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept. 23, 2006 |
- The Chinese Bicentennial Steel
Ensemble with nine-year old pannist prodigy performs as
part of Chinese Bicentennial celebration program.
Time: 5:00 PM. Venue: Oasis Garden
Terrace, 101 Circular Road, San Fernando, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
- CARIFESTA -
Sforzata Steel Orchestra performs
at Carifesta IX. Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Venue:
Carifesta grounds, Stage 4, Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
- CARIFESTA -
L.H. Pan Groove performs at Carifesta IX. Time: 7:00
PM - 7:30 PM. Venue: Carifesta grounds, Stage 4,
Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
- CARIFESTA - L.H.
Pan Groove perform and Sforzata Steel Orchestra perform
at Carifesta IX. Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Venue:
Carifesta grounds, Stage 4, Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept.
22, 2006 |
- Panyard Sensations
featuring Carib Dixieland, pannists Ken “Professor”
Philmore, Duvonne Stewart, Tony “Pan Jumbie” Williams,
Delbert “Totts” Henry, singers Youth Quake, Ole Time
Jammers, Prince, Katzenjammers and Dem Boys
among others. Time: 8:00 PM. Venue:
Mt. Pleasant, TOBAGO, W.I.
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Sept. 17, 2006 |
- Musical Extravaganza featuring
demonstrations by Mount Carmel Marching Band from Belmopan,
Our Lady of Guadelupe Steel Pan Band, and the Cayo School
of Music. Venue: Centennial Park, Benque Viejo del Carmen,
BELIZE. More info contact Pat Asling, Benque House of
Culture, Number 64 St. Joseph Street, Benque, BELIZE, SOUTH
AMERICA
- Panyard Sensations
featuring Southern Marines Steelband. Time: 6:00 PM.
Venue: the Southern Marines Steelband Foundation pan
theatre, Southern Main Road, Marabella, TRINIDAD
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Sept.
16, 2006 |
-
Panyard Sensations
featuring Sound Specialists Steel Orchestra.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Eastern Main Road, Laventille, TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept. 11, 2006 |
- USA NBA Basketball without
Borders/ACHAP Community outreach programme - Basketball
donation to Africa. Entertainment: Rainbow Hi
School Steelpan Ensemble & Kaisoka mokojumbies. Time:
9:00 AM. Venue: National Youth Centre, Gaborone, BOTSWANA,
AFRICA
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Sept. 10, 2006 |
- D'Radoes steel orchestra hosts
an 'After Labor Day Steel Band Jamboree.' Time: 6:00
PM. Venue: Chase Court and Ralph Avenue (between Foster Ave.
and the railroad trestle) Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Women In Steel, Pantonic, Unique Sound
& J'Ouvert City Alliance present
Rhythm and Steel in The Park - An
End of Summer Family Cultural and Informational Day -
featuring
New York Steelbands.
Time: 12:00 to 7 PM. Venue: Prospect Park – “The
Peristyle” (entrance: Parkside & Ocean Avenues, East
Drive – walk to your left); Brooklyn, New York, USA.
For info call: Claudette (718) 629-1330; Yvette (718)
636-8029, Lynette (718) 469-3250.
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Sept. 9, 2006 |
- The University of Mary Steel Drum
Band performs on the U-Mary float
during the Parade of Champions. Time: 10:00 AM.
Venue: downtown Bismarck. Staging is at the
Capitol at 8:00 AM. Route goes south on Sixth Street,
west on Avenue C, south on Fifth Street and ends at Kirkwood
Mall. Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
- Panyard Sensations featuring
Curepe Scherzando Steel Orchestra. Time:
8:00 PM. Venue: Evans Street, Curepe, TRINIDAD, W.I.
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Sept.
7, 2006 |
- President Skorton Inauguration
Celebration featuring the Cornell Steel Band and
Latin Jazz percussion Ensemble. Time: 3:30 PM.
Venue: Cornell University Arts Quad, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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Sept. 3, 2006 |
- New York Panorama competition
- featuring ADLIB, Caribbean Youth Panoramics,
CASYM, CrossFire, D'Radoes, Dem Stars, Despers USA, Harmony,
N.Y. Marsicans, Pan Sonatas, Pantonic and Sesame
Flyers steel orchestras. Showtime: 4:00 PM.
Venue: Brooklyn Museum Grounds (entrance on Washington
Avenue, near Eastern Parkway), Brooklyn, New York, USA
- The Steelheads steel drum band
perform with
special guest Andy Narell. Time: 2:15 PM.
Venue: Ford Spirit of Detroit Stage,,
Detroit International Jazz Festival, Hart
Plaza, (next to the Renaissance Center at the intersection
of Jefferson and Woodward Ave.), downtown Detroit, Michigan,
USA.
More info.
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Sept. 2, 2006 |
- New York Panorama competition
- RESCHEDULED due to inclement weather - see
September 3, above.
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Sept. 1, 2006 |
- The Steelheads steel drum band
perform with
special guest Andy Narell. Time: 7:30 PM.
Venue: the Clio Amphitheater, 402 N Mill Street, Clio,
Michigan, USA.
Tickets and more info.
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Aug. 30-31, 2006 |
- First European International
Conference on Steelpan -
"The Steelpan Art Form in the 21st Century; Projecting a
Vision of the Future through Global Experiences."
Venue: University of East London, Docklands Campus,
4-6 University Way, London E16 2RD, ENGLAND, UK. For
more info, contact meeting organizers Lionel McCalman at
l.mccalman@uel.ac.uk
or Haroun Shah at
Haroun.Shah@hpa.org.uk
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Aug. 28, 2006 |
- Steelbands participating in Notting
Hill Carnival's ' Best Band
on The Road' competition. Venue: Notting Hill,
ENGLAND, UK
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Aug. 27, 2006 |
- BAS Jouvert Bomb Tune Steelpan
Competition. Venue:
Notting Hill, ENGLAND, UK
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Aug. 26, 2006 |
- The Steelheads steelband performs.
Venue: The Soggy Bottom Bar, 613 Martin Luther King
Boulevard, Flint, Michigan, USA
- National Panorama
- Champions of Steel Competition featuring top UK
steelbands competing for the title. Venue:
Horniman’s Pleasance Park, Kensal Road, Notting Hill,
London, ENGLAND, UK
-
'An Evening of Musical Excellence' featuring Skiffle
Bunch Steel Orchestra
and calypsonian Black Stalin – in concert - along with 3
Canal, violinist Anselm Walters, saxophonist Francis Prime
and the host band, Our Boys Steel Orchestra.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Our Boys Pan Theatre, Fort
Street, Scarborough, TOBAGO, W.I.
- NY Pan Stars Steel Orchestra
presents their First Annual Bus Ride to Bally's Casino in
Atlantic City. Departure time: 8:00 PM.
Departure venue: 3711 Avenue D (between E 37th and E
38th Streets), Brooklyn, New York, USA. For more info,
call Lincoln @ 1 (718) 856-7064 or Cathy @ 1 (718) 493-0456.
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Aug.
20, 2006 |
- Jazz At Pearl's presents
Sakésho - featuring Andy Narell on steelpan - in
concert.
Two shows - Times: 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Doors
open 30 minutes prior to each show. Venue: Jazz
At Pearl's, 256 Columbus Ave (Pacific), San Francisco,
California, USA
- D'Radoes Steel Orchestra hosts their
DESPERADOES FAMILY REUNION, inviting all Desperadoes family
and supporters. Time: after band practice, around
10:00 PM. Venue: D'Yard at 8039 Chase Court, (between
Ralph Avenue and East 83rd Street) (near Foster Avenue),
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Aug.
19, 2006 |
- Jazz At Pearl's presents
Sakésho - featuring Andy Narell on steelpan - in
concert. Two shows - Times: 8:00 PM and 10:00
PM. Doors open 30 minutes prior to each show.
Venue: Jazz At Pearl's, 256 Columbus Ave (Pacific),
San Francisco, California, USA
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Aug.
18, 2006 |
- D'Radoes steel orchestra hosts their
Band Launch at "D'Yard." Featuring guest bands:
Despers USA, Sonatas, Dem Stars, Harmony and
Black Love. Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: 8039 Chase
Court, (between Ralph Ave. and East 83rd Street),
Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Pan United Steel Orchestra
goes 'Live!' Time: 12 PM - 2:00 PM. Venue:
Downtown Crossing (Winter & Summer Streets) Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
- Jazz At Pearl's presents
Sakésho - featuring Andy Narell on steelpan - in
concert.
Two shows - Times: 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Doors
open 30 minutes prior to each show. Venue: Jazz
At Pearl's, 256 Columbus Ave (Pacific), San Francisco,
California, USA
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Aug.
15, 2006 |
- Sakésho featuring Andy Narell on
steelpan.
Showtime: 6:30 PM. Venue: North Plaza, Lincoln Center
(near 65th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues),
New York, New York, USA
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Aug.
13, 2006 |
- Pan Sonatas steel orchestra presents
its 5th Annual Band Launching. Featuring
performances by Ambassadors, CASYM, Dem Stars, Despers
USA, Harmony, Steel Sensation, D'Radoes, and
Pan Sonatas steel orchestras. Entertainment by
various calypsonians as well. Time: 4:00 PM.
Venue: K.C.'s Hideaway, 2494 Atlantic Avenue, (corner of
Hinsdale St.), Brooklyn, New York, USA. Call Mack @ 1
(718) 496-5133 or Selwyn @ 1 (347) 268-1239 for more info.
- Caribbean Cultural Center: 30 Years of
Carnival featuring CASYM Steel Orchestra and other
Caribbean artists. Event time: 3:00 PM.
Venue: Josie Robertson Plaza, (center of the Lincoln
Center campus at Columbus Avenue, between 62nd and 65th
Streets), New York, New York, USA
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Aug.
12, 2006 |
- NY Pan Stars Steel Orchestra
invites all to their First Annual Curry-Que. Time:
12:00 Noon - until... Venue: 3711 Avenue D (between E
37th and E 38th Streets), Brooklyn, New York, USA. For
more info, call Lincoln @ 1 (718) 856-7064 or Cathy @ 1
(718) 493-0456.
- Grenada
National Panorama competition
featuring eight competing steel orchestras:
Angel Harps, New Dimensions, Comancheros, Pan Lovers,
Rainbow City All Stars, Florida All Stars, Grand Roy Pan
Angels and Corinthians. Venue: Tanteen
Sports Complex, St. George's, GRENADA, W.I.
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Aug.
6, 2006 |
- 7th Annual Laventille
Steelband Festival Pan Parade,
featuring a street theatre presentation where the
Emancipation story will be re-enacted, chronicling the
abolishment of slavery in Trinidad & Tobago. After
this segment, thirty steel orchestras (single pan and
conventional) will join a tamboo bamboo band and the
Laventille Rhythm Section for the parade.
Participating bands include: Laventille Serenaders,
Renegades, Woodbrook Playboyz, Phase II Pan Groove, Exodus,
Desperadoes, Harlem Syncopators, Sforzata, St. James
Tripolian, Starlift and Uni Stars. Time:
4:00 PM - Midnight. Parade venue/route: East, along
the Eastern Main Road, , from Mc Allister to Leon Streets,
Laventille, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO.
- St. James Town Youth Steel
Orchestra perform. Time: 3:00 PM. Venue:
Ann Tindal Park Lawn, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens
Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
- Afropan
performs. Time: 3:30 PM. Venue: 6, 3:30 PM.
Harbourfront Centre Concert
Stage, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West,
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
- St. James Town Youth Steel
Orchestra presents a
Pan Workshop. One-on-one 30-minute session - limited
to 20 participants. Time: 4:30 PM. Venue: Brigantine
Room,
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West,
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
- Pan Fantasy
performs. Time: 5:30 PM. Venue: Ann Tindal Park
Lawn, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto,
Ontario, CANADA.
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Aug.
4, 2006 |
- The Ontario Steelpan Association
presents Pan Alive 2006 featuring twelve steel
orchestras performing two selections each - one calypso,
and one non-calypso. Participating are Afropan, Pan
Fantasy, Silhouettes, Metrotones, Mississauga Academy, Salah
Pan Academy, New Dimension, St. Jamestown Youth, Panatics,
Symphonyx, Jesse Ketchum and Pan Masters - all
vying for the Scotia Bank Trophy. For tickets and more
info: BAD LAD MUSIC @ 1 (416) 335-5292. Time: 7:00 PM.
Venue: Allan A. Lamport Stadium, 1155 King St., West,
Toronto, CANADA.
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Aug.
3, 2006 |
- Antigua National Panorama
competition featuring four
competing steel orchestras including Gemonites,
Hell's Gate, Mahico Stars
and West Side Symphony: Venue: ANTIGUA &
BARBUDA, W.I.
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Aug.
1, 2006 |
- ADLIB Steel Orchestra
is showcased at a free outdoor performance. Culinary vendors
available during the period for delightful dining.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue: Waterside Plaza,
overlooking the East River. Easily reached on foot via First
Avenue and East 25th Street, then taking the footbridge
across the FDR Drive towards the East River. Stay above
street level and walk to the stage in the center of the four
high-rise towers. Manhattan, New York, USA.
More info
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Jul.
29, 2006 |
- ADLIB Steel Orchestra hosts
their Annual Boat Ride aboard 'Captain Lou VI' Freeport, NY.
Music by DJ Adaryll. Boarding time: 11:30 PM.
Departure Time: 12:00 A.M. For tickets and more info,
contact Jean Mayers @ 1 (516) 623-40611 or Ralph
Branche @ 1 (718) 525-7312. Venue: Freeport, New York,
USA
- Crossfire Steel Orchestra
hosts their 5th
Annual Barbecue Fundraiser. Featuring
music by CASYM, Despers USA, D'Radoes, Jambalasi,
Sesame Flyers, Pan Sonatas and hosts, Crossfire.
Time: 12:00 PM to 2:30 AM. Venue: The rear
compound of the Brooklyn Athletic Club, 4400 Glenwood Road
(corner Glenwood Road and Troy Avenue), Brooklyn, New York,
USA.
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Jul. 28, 2006 |
- Ribe Jazz Festival - Danish Jazz
Festival. Butch Lacy’s Funny Band perform featuring
pannist Gregory Boyd.
Time: 10 PM - Midnight. Venue: Cafe Valdemar
Sejr, Ribe, South-West Jutland, DENMARK.
More info
- 2006 Emancipation Celebrations - A
premiere Pan-African Festival, featuring many activities
from Jul. 23 - Aug. 1, including Pan Night - a Steelband
Concert with six to eight steel orchestras expected to
perform. Time: 7:30 PM. Venue: Lidj Yasu Omowale
Village, Jean Pierre Complex / Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Jul. 27, 2006 |
- Pannist Gregory Boyd featured
in Denmark's
Radio Huset Performance. Venue: Radiohuset,
Danmarks Radio, Rosenørns Alle 22, 1970 Frederiksberg C,
Tlf: 35 20 30 40, DENMARK
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Jul. 26, 2006 |
- Caribbean Rhythms as part of the
"Young People’s Concert Series" -
featuring
Caribbean Youth Panoramics (CYP) Steel Pan
Orchestra and the Caopeira
Troupe. Time: 11:00 AM. Venue: The
Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Jul.
23, 2006 |
- Trinidad and Tobago Cultural
Association of Delaware hosts their 5th annual
picnic. Featuring steel drum music, kids' games, soca
music, cricket and more. Time: Noon - dusk.
Venue: Brandywine Springs Park, 3300 Faulkland Road,
Wilmington (near Rt. 41), Delaware, USA. For more info
call Sherwin Wilson 1 (302) 376-9153.
- Pan Pun De Sand - Steel Pan Concert
featuring various Steelbands. Part of the Crop Over
Festival Events. Time: 2:00 PM. Venue: Brandon's
Beach, St. Michael, BARBADOS, W.I. More info: 1 (246) 424
0909
- Caribfest Carnival and Caribbean
Summer host various activities, including steelpan.
Time: 3:15 - 3:45 PM. Venue: Horniman Museum
Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, south London, on the
South Circular Road, ENGLAND, UK
-
Dem Stars Band Launching.
Venue: Dem Stars pan yard, located at the Brooklyn
Terminal Market, East 83rd Street, between
(Foster & Ditmas Avenues), Brooklyn, New York, USA.
For more info call 1 (718) 216-8606
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Jul. 22, 2006 |
- The MIT Steel Band
and dancers will perform during a Pancake Breakfast
fundraiser event, which is simultaneously being broadcast
live as the 'Raiders on the Radio.' Fundraiser time:
8:00 AM - Noon. Venue: Carmen Arace Cafeteria, Carmen Arace
Middle School, 390 Park Avenue, Bloomfield,
Connecticut, USA
- MusicalArts offers a free steelband
workshop
for teens and adults.
Eric Rollnick of Mango Groove steel band will give a
demonstration and teach everyone to play a song in one hour.
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Venue: the former
Exeter High School, 36 Linden Street, Exeter, New Hampshire,
USA. www.musicalarts.org.
- Pan People Steelband hosts a
"Backyard All-Inclusive Party" fundraiser for their 2007
Ghana Tour. Also featuring music from the
Oglethorpe Steeldrum Ensemble. Time: 9:00 PM
- 2:00 AM. Venue: 540 Cairo Street, Atlanta, Georgia,
USA. (Take I-20 W, exit Joseph Lowery Blvd, turn right
on Lowery, left on North Avenue, then right on Cairo).
For info call: 1 (404) 724-9551 or 1 (404) 880-6286
- Parade from Waterplace Park to
Providence Black Repertory Company, to Block Party featuring
Utopia Pan Soul: the Next Generation, Drums of
Freedom, and more. Time: 10:00 PM. Venue:
Westminster Street Stage, Providence City, Rhode Island,
USA.
- Pan in the City. Expected to
perform are Tripolians pan-round-the-neck band from
Trinidad,
steelbands from different secondary schools in Barbados,
and a
Combined Steel Orchestra made of up of children from various
primary schools. Time: 12:30 - 5:00 PM. Venue:
starts at the General Post Office via Swan Street, finishing
at National Heroes Square. Bridgetown, BARBADOS, W.I.
- Pantonic Steel Orchestra
hosts a Fund-raising Bus Ride to Bally's Casino in Atlantic
City, New Jersey, USA. Departure time: 8:00 PM
sharp. Departure venue: bus leaves from the
corner of Church & Nostrand Avenues, Brooklyn, New York.
Refreshments will be served on the bus to supporters in a
show of appreciation. For more information and tickets, call
Glenda Gamory @ 1 (718) 434-0231; Alvin Mitchell @ 1 (718)
723-3467; Pat Alleyne @1 (718) 287-0826.
- Pan Masters steel orchestra
perform at the Bluemont Concert Series. Time: 7:30 PM.
Venue: Old Shadowlawn, 73 Culpeper St., one block south from
the Warren Green site, downtown Warrenton, Virginia, USA.
(Rain venue: the Taylor Middle School auditorium, 350 E.
Shirley Ave.)
- 3rd Annual St. Maarten/St. Martin
SummerFest. Jazz & Wine Fest - featuring Andy
Narell,
and KaJam Group, Norman Brown and more. Venue:
Bellevue, French ST. MAARTEN, W.I.
- Festival of Steelband-Festival
Cudrefin, featuring Steel Harmonites, Ablaze, No
Panique, Sirambas, Abracadabra and Pan Friends.
Time: 7:00 PM - 3:00 AM. Venue: Cudrefin,
SWITZERLAND
- Pan Fantasy presents its 1st
Annual Panyard Block & BBQ. Time: 4:00 PM.
Venue: Downsview Park, 60 Carl Hall Road, Bldg. #39,
(corner Keele St. & Sheppard Ave.), Toronto, CANADA.
More info:
www.panfantasy.com
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Jul.
21, 2006 |
- Back In Time Pan - Steel Pan
Concert featuring various Steelbands .
Part of the Crop Over Festival Events. Time:
6:30 PM. Venue: Speightstown Esplanade, St. Peter,
BARBADOS, W.I. More info: 1 (246) 424 0909
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Jul.
20, 2006 |
- Concert in the Park series featuring
t he Mayville Steel Drum
Band. Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue:
Dodge Park on South Madison Street, Mayville, Wisconsin,
USA. (Rain venue is the city hall auditorium)
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Jul. 19, 2006 |
- Pan In The Future Tense - Steel Pan
Concert featuring various Steelbands. Part of the Crop
Over Festival Events. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue:
Dover Beach, Christ Church, BARBADOS, W.I. More info:
1 (246) 424 0909.
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Jul. 18, 2006 |
- The Petoskey High School Steel Drum
Band performs at 'Tuesdays in the Park '.
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM. Venue: the Gladwin
City Park Amphitheatre, 240 City Park Street, Gladwin,
Michigan, USA. More info: 1 (989) 426-5887
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Jul. 16, 2006 |
- Desperadoes Steel Orchestra
(from Trinidad) at KC's Hideaway
RE-SCHEDULED TO AUGUST 19 & 20 -
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Jul. 15, 2006 |
- Harmony's Music Makers (aka
Harmony Steel Orchestra)
present their 2006 Band Launch featuring,
Dem Stars, Crossfire, Black Love Steel, N.Y. Marsicans,
D'Radoes, CASYM, Sonatas, Ambassadors, Sesame Flyers and
Despers USA. Time:
5:00 PM. Venue: St. Matthew's Hall, 1351 Lincoln Place
(between Utica and Schenectady Avenues), Brooklyn, New York,
USA. For info, call Mike @ 1 (347) 885-9658 or Debbie
@ 1 (718) 679-3658
- Finale concert of the 14th
Annual Festival of Steel.
Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: Mountainlair Ballrooms,
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
- Carnivalitis: The Conflicting
Discourse of Carnival
-
a superb study of the relationship
between Carnival, the Steelband and social problems
in Trinidad and Tobago, Brooklyn and the other major
Carnival hubs. Carnivalitis… is an entertaining,
informative, insightful new discourse of the culture of
Carnival. Featuring
a slide presentation featuring
photographs of Labor Day Carnival from 1972 – 2000.
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PM. Venue: the Flatbush Branch
of the Brooklyn Public Library, 2nd Floor Gallery
- 22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, New
York, USA. Call Donna Fleming at 1 (718) 287-8597 or
email
d.fleming@brooklynpubliclibrary.org
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Jul. 14, 2006 |
- St. Lucia National Panorama
featuring
Northstars, Diamond Steel, Pantime; Babonneau, Emerald Steel
and
Pan Exodus.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Euralis Bouty Sports
Complex, ST. LUCIA, W.I.
- Brunswick County Parks and
Recreation's 'Concerts on the Coast' series featuring
Pantastic Steel.
Showtime: 6:30 - 8:00 PM. Venue: the parking lot
of the Museum of Coastal Carolina, 21 East Second St., Ocean
Isle Beach, North Carolina, USA
-
5ème festival du steeldrum en Dròme tropicale.
Featuring the following
French Steelbands:
Delta Pan; Ecole Nationale de Musique de
Grenoble ; Les Alizes; Les Ferailleurs; Les Fûts
Furieux; Mambo Bidon; Mistic Mi-pan; Pan Spirit; Steelband
de Montagnac; Style Drôme;
Ti'groupe
et
Tropic du Cancer.
Time: 11:00 AM until - evening time. Venue:
The village of La Laupie near Montélimar, South France,
FRANCE
- Symphonic Steel from Dundee
High School performs. Time: 7:00 PM.
Venue: Aurora village park along Cayuga Lake.
Rain venue the Morgan Opera House, State Route 90 and
Cherry Avenue, Aurora, New York, USA
- Despers USA presents their Annual
Band Launch. Featuring Sonatas, Despers USA,
and more. Time: 8:00 PM. Venue:
Dem Stars pan yard, located at the Brooklyn Terminal Market,
East 83rd Street, between (Foster & Ditmas Avenues),
Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Jul.
13, 2006 |
- Bayside Live! Waterfront Entertainment
Series -features Petoskey
High School Steel Drum Band. Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM.
Venue: New marina pavilion, St. Ignace, Michigan, USA.
Call 1-800-970-8717 for more info
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Jul. 12, 2006 |
- Locals on the Bay - Free Waterfront
Entertainment Series -features
LaSalle High School Steel Drum Band on the shore of
Lake Huron. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue:
St. Ignace Marina Pavilion, St. Ignace, Michigan, USA.
Call 1-800-970-8717 for more info
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Jul.
9-15, 2006 |
- 14th Annual Festival of Steel .
Week-long performance and celebration of the steel drum
artform. Paricipants/presenters include Andy
Narell; Jeff Narell, pan jazz ensemble Pan Ramajay,
featuring Tom Miller, Alan Lightner and Jim Munzenrider.
Organizers: Ellie Mannette, WVU (West Virginia
University) and Mannette Steel Drums. Venue:
Clarion Hotel Morgan, 127 High Street, Morgantown, West
Virginia, USA.
More
info
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Jul. 9, 2006 |
- St. Vincent National Panorama
competition, as part of the
Dimanche Gras show Venue: Carnival City,
Victoria Park, Kingstown,
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines, W.I.
- Grenada's Panorama Launch.
The 2006 National Panorama Competition will be launched.
Highlight of the launch will be the Rhythm Section
competition among the eight bands participating in this
year's competition.
The event will also feature steelband music from the eight
competing bands at this year's Panorama. At the launch, the
bands are each expected to play three carnival-related
pieces plus a short piece of their Panorama selection for
2006. The eight competing bands are:
Angel Harps, New Dimensions, Comancheroes,
Pan Lovers, Rainbow City All Stars,
Florida All Stars, Grand Roy Pan Angels and
Corinthians. steel orchestras.
Time: 5:00 PM.
Venue:
Tanteen Sports Complex,
St. George's, GRENADA, W.I.
- Baltimore Steel Orchestra
performs at a summer concert. Time: 6:00 - 8:00
PM. Venue: Ladew Topiary Gardens, 3535
Jarrettsville Pike, Monkton, Maryland, USA.
- Faculty Showcase Concert,
opener for the
14th Annual Festival of Steel.
Time: 8:00 PM.
Venue: Metropolitan Theatre, 369 High Street, Morgantown,
West Virginia, USA.
- Washington High School Steel Band
performS at the annual Chautuauqua art and music festival.
Time: 2:30 PM. Venue: the Amphitheater,
Chautuauqua Institution, Chautuauqua, New York, USA.
- Engine Room band Launching of 2006
Carnival Presentation - "Pirates of The Caribbean."
Guest performance at launch by
Volume 2 Steel Band. Time: 6:00 - 10:00 PM.
Venue: 19 - 21 Atherton Street, Roxbury,
Massachusetts, USA. Call 1 (617) 522-8086 for more
info.
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Jul.
8, 2006
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- Trinidad & Tobago Day Festival
featuring - Pantonic steel orchestra
and Connecticut's best, the Hartford Steel Symphony.
Also appearing are other artists including Island Riddim
Band. Festival time - 1:00 - 10:30 PM. Venue:
Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 6th
Annual Harbor View Festival 2006 "Pan On
The Move" featuring various steelbands. Time: 12
Noon. Venue: Reedbird Park, Cherry Hill, Harbor
View, (near Harbor Hospital) Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
For more info call 1 (443) 854-2920; 1 (410) 551-3340
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Flash! In the Pans Community Steel Band
will perform at Arts in the Park, Heritage Park.
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Venue: Heritage
Park, Belfast Commons, Belfast, Maine, USA.
- Steel drum player Kent Arnsbarger -
Saturday Music on The Verandah. Time: 1:00 -
4:00 PM. Venue: Starved Rock Lodge & Conference
Center, Utica, Illinois, USA
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Jul. 7, 2006
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- Pickin' in the Park featuring the
Pan Jive steel drum band. Time:
7:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue: downtown Hudson, behind
Hudson Town Hall in the Hickman Windmill Park and Depot
Museum, Hudson, North Carolina, USA
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Jul. 6, 2006 |
- St. Vincent Junior Panorama.
Venue: Carnival City, Victoria Park, Kingstown,
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines, W.I.
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Jul. 5, 2006 |
- Flash! In the Pans Community Steel
Band will perform at a benefit.
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM. Venue: Blue Hill
Town Park, Blue Hill, Maine, USA
- The Toronto Public Library (TPL)- The
York Woods Branch hosts a program in memory of Clive
Bradley, master pan arranger.
Resource persons are Layne Clarke and Patrick McNeilly "Pan
Man Pat". Program includes Reminiscing and
Remembering Clive Bradley (1936-2005) for Toronto Caribbean
Carnival. Professional pannists capture the life and career
of Clive Bradley, mathematician, master arranger, composer,
producer and musician. Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM.
Venue: Toronto Public Library, York Woods District Branch,
1785 Finch Avenue, West Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. Call
1 (416) 395-5980 for more info.
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Jul.
4, 2006 |
- Dem Stars Pan Yard Lime.
Venue: Dem Stars pan yard, located at the Brooklyn
Terminal Market, East 83rd Street, between
(Foster & Ditmas Avenues), Brooklyn, New York, USA.
For more info call 1 (718) 216-8606
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Jul. 2, 2006 |
- Dem Stars Pan Yard Open Concert.
Venue: Dem Stars pan yard, located at the Brooklyn
Terminal Market, East 83rd Street, between
(Foster & Ditmas Avenues), Brooklyn, New York, USA.
For more info call 1 (718) 216-8606
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Jul.
1, 2006 |
- The Havana Boys Steel Band
performs at the Doddington Carnival.
Time: 9:45 - 10:15 AM. Parade/carnival continues
in the recreation field later in the afternoon.
Performance venue:
Three Tuns car park, St. Mary’s Church and Recreation Field,
Benwick Road, Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND
- Pan-Ah-Que. Performances by
Sesame Flyers, Utopia Pan Soul, and Black Love Steel.
Time: 12:00 PM - 9:00pm. Venue: 1640 Nostrand
Ave. (Bet: Tilden & Beverley Rd.), Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Tropical Shores Steel Drum Band
perform. Time: 3 to 3:30 PM. Venue: Lake
Talbott Stage, fairgrounds, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
- The Petoskey Steel Drum Band
performs. Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Venue: The
Inn at Bay Harbor, 3600 Village Harbor Drive, Bay Harbor,
Michigan, USA.
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Jun. 26, 2006 |
- The Public School 52 Steel
Orchestra, trumpeter Reggie Pittman and Mighty Sparrow,
perform at the unveiling of the portrait of the late
Caribbean-American leader Shirley Chisholm. Event
time: 5:00 PM. Venue: the Rotunda at
Brooklyn Borough Hall, corner Joralemon and Court Streets,
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Jun. 24, 2006 |
- "Jazzin' on Jefferson" featuring many
performances, including one from the Gratitude Steel
Band. Showtime: 6:00 PM. Venue:
Main stage, closed-off section of Jefferson Avenue at
Chalmers, 14628 E. Jefferson, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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Jun. 23, 2006 |
- Ninth Annual Caribbean Heritage.
Performances by Mighty Shadow, Crossfire Steel
Orchestra, and more. Time: 5:30 PM - Midnight.
Venue: DC 37 Headquarters, 125 Barclay Street, New
York, NY, USA.
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Jun. 19, 2006 |
- "Salute To The Caribbean" Concert.
The New York Daily News and Borough President Adolfo
Carrion, Jr. present a tropical celebration with live
performances by Trinidad All Stars steel orchestra
and CASYM steel orchestra. Time: 6:00 PM.
Venue: River Plaza Shopping Center, W. 225 St at
Broadway, the Bronx, New York, USA
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Jun. 18, 2006 |
- Trinidad All Stars
(from Trinidad)
and CASYM and Sonatas
(from New York) with K.C. in the 1st Band Meets Band
concert. Time: Doors open 5:00 PM. Venue:
K.C.'s Hideaway, 2494 Atlantic Avenue, (corner of
Hinsdale St.), Brooklyn, New York, USA. Call 1 (646)
210-4429 for info.
- Father's Day Steel Pan Jazz Concert
- Jazz at Lincoln Center. Featuring Ralph
MacDonald, Arturo Tappin, Robert Greenidge, Rudy 'Two
Left' Smith, Nicholas Brancker, and others. Doors
open at 4:30 PM. Showtime: 5:00 PM. Venue:
Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York,
New York, USA.
More
info.
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Jun. 17, 2006 |
- CASYM presents Youth Explosion.
Featuring
steelband performances from PS 109, PS 149, PS 269, PS
161, CASYM's Class 1, CASYM's Class 2, PS 91 and the Boys
and Girls Club.
Time: 6:00 PM. Venue: PS 91, 532
Albany Avenue, (corner of New York
Ave.), Brooklyn, New York, USA. For more info, email
casyminfo@aol.com or
call 1 (718) 735-4932
- Michigan Steel Drum Festival.
Featuring various bands at set times:
Noon - The Gratitude Steel Band;
1:30 PM - Michigan State University’s Hard Bargain
Steelband;
3:00 PM - Oakland University’s Pan-Jumbies;
5:00 PM -
Steelheads Steelband
7:30 PM -
Southpaw Isle Steelband
9:30 PM - Hugh Borde’s Trinidad Tripoli Steelband
11:00 PM -
Caribbean Pans Of Joy Steelband
11:30 PM -
UPRIZIN
Festival Venue: the Hockeytown Cafe, 2301
Woodward Ave. (next to the Fox Theatre in Downtown Detroit),
Michigan, USA.
- Trinidad All Stars
(from Trinidad)
and
CASYM (from New York) with K.C. in the 1st Band
Meets Band concert. Time: Doors open 8:00
PM. Venue: K.C.'s Hideaway, 2494 Atlantic Avenue,
(corner of Hinsdale St.), Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Call 1 (646) 210-4429 for info.
- Pan Sonatas, Inc.
presents their Father's Day
Boat Ride. Boarding time: 10:00 PM. Departure
time: 11:00 PM. Departure venue: Pier 2,
Sheepshead Bay (between Emmons & Bedford Avenues), Brooklyn,
New York, USA. For tickets and more info call Chuffy:
1 (718) 986 5152; Mack: 1 (718) 496-5133
- Ivory n' Steel - Smooth Jazz and
Steelpan music. Featuring Afropan Steelband with
Eddie Bullen, Anslem Douglas, Liberty Silver and
pannist Earl La Pierre, Jr.
Showtime: 8:00 PM. Venue: Toronto
Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge Street (just north of
Sheppard), Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. Call 1 (416) 245-6411
More info.
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Jun.
16, 2006 |
- Umoja
African Dance and Drumming, Hamilton Hill Steel Drum Band,
Kendra Jones & the Women of Excellence, Miss Carla Page and
Donald "the Soul Man" Hyman all perform at the annual
Capital Region Juneteenth Celebration, the oldest nationally
recognized commemoration of the end of slavery. Event
time: 10:00 AM.
Venue:
Schenectady Central Park, Wright Avenue, Schenectady,
New York, USA
-
Tenor pan soloist Victor Provost
is the featured artist at this month's "Sunset Jazz Series"
in Fredricksted, St. Croix. This will also be the CD
release party for his album "Smooth Steel." Time:
6:00 - 8:00 PM. Venue: Fredricksted, St. Croix,
U.S.V.I.
More info
-
New York Marsicans presents
fundraiser "End of the School Year" party. Time:
from 10:00 PM. Venue: Vern's Happiness
Lounge, 1458 St. John's Place (between Utica and
Rochester Aves.), Brooklyn, New York, USA. Call
Tiny at 1 (718) 581-6159 for more info
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Jun.
11, 2006 |
- Pathmark Multicultural Arts West
Indian Festival, featuring several performers including
Pantonic Steel Orchestra, Women In Steel and Pan
Ambassadors. Event time: 12:00 - 5:00 PM. Venue: Kings
Plaza Shopping Center, corner Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U,
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Jun. 10,
2006 |
- Steelband Panorama at Tampa Bay
Caribbean Carnival 2006. Featuring: -
Various acts, including
Tamboo Bamboo, Orlando Branches, Orlando Power Stars,
Merto Lanta, Tampa Bay Steel Orchestra.
Event time: 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM. Venue:
Vinoy Park, downtown St Petersburg, Florida, USA.
- Moods Pan Groove Fundraiser.
Good food and steelpan music by D'Radoes, Moods
and Megabytes Rhythm Section. Big-screen TV
featuring soccer match - TnT Soca Warriors vs Sweden in
Germany. Doors open 10:00 AM. Party time:
Noon - 6:00 PM. Venue: 910 St. John's Place, (closer
to New York avenue), Brooklyn, New York, USA. For more
info: 1 (718) 774-4705.
- J'ouvert Jamboree Vagrant Bum Party,
featuring various calypsonians and steelbands including
Pan Sonatas, Pan Ambassadors and Harmony. Doors
open: 4:00 PM. Venue: St. Matthew's Gym, 1351
Lincoln Place (between Utica and Schenectady Avenues),
Brooklyn, New York, USA. For more info call Debbie @ 1
(718) 679-3658 or Mike @ 1 (347) 885-9658.
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Jun. 9,
2006 |
- Pan Sonatas, Inc.
presents their Annual Pre-Father's Day Party.
Venue: Graham Resort, 1251 Atlantic Avenue, (corner of
Nostrand Avenue), Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Jun. 4,
2006 |
- Pan United Steel Orchestra performs
at the Dorchester Day Parade. Even time: 1:00
PM. Route: Parade starts in Lower Mills and ends
at the Columbia Road/Dorchester Avenue intersection, close
by the Blake House, South Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Jun. 3,
2006 |
- Steelpan workshop hosted by Elton
Williams from the Caribbean Information Music Center, as
part of the schedule of activities at the First Annual
Sankofa Festival Celebrating African American Heritage,
featuring visual and performing arts, crafts, cuisine and
more. Festival time: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM. Venue:
Constant’s Wharf Park and Marina, Suffolk, Virginia, USA.
- Barbados Pan Festival -
Caribbean 'Seven-a-Side' competition. Featuring
Skiffle Bunch from Trinidad and Tobago, New Dimension
from Grenada, Starlift from St. Vincent, Park Side
from Guyana,
Rhythmix from St. Lucia,
Genesis from Dominica, and
Pan Extreme. Showtime: 8:00 PM. Venue:
Savannah Hotel Car Park, Hastings, Christ Church, BARBADOS,
W.I.
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May 29, 2006
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- BT Melodians Steel Orchestra
perform at Luton Carnival, Luton, ENGLAND
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May 28, 2006 |
- Pan Explosion 2006 –
featuring Soloists, Duets, Trios and Ensembles
competitions. Guest artistes: Anise ‘Halfers’
Hadeed and North Tyneside Steel Band. Doors
open at 5:00 PM; Showtime: 6:00 PM. Venue: The
Drum Centre, 144 Potters Lane, Aston - Birmingham B6,
ENGLAND, UK. Email
fdf@panpodium.com for more info.
- Pan Masters presents their
8th Annual Steelband Jamboree
(Memorial Weekend). Featuring New York's CASYM
Steel Orchestra and Pantonic Steel Orchestra,
Hyattsville's CAFE Steel Orchestra, DC Pan
Jammers, Baltimore's St. Veronica's Steel Orchestra
and Tropical Ensemble, The One Man Band, and hosts
Pan Masters Steel Orchestra. Time: 2:00 PM.
Venue: One block South of the Panyard, at 4411 Rhode
Island Ave, Brentwood, Maryland, USA
- Dem Stars Steel Orchestra presents
"This One For You" saluting Clive Bradley & Noel “Nosie”
Hercules. Featuring: CYP, Pan Ambassadors,
Dem Stars, Harmony & Despers USA. Time: 6:00 PM
until… Venue: Dem Stars pan yard, located at the
Brooklyn Terminal Market, East 83rd
Street, between (Foster & Ditmas Avenues), Brooklyn, New
York, USA. For more info call 1 (718)
216-8606
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May 21, 2006 |
- PanMasters Steel Organization, Inc.
(PMSO) presents their Annual Junior
Pan Solo competition featuring young pannists
eighteen years of age and under. Venue: New Hope
Academy, 7009 Varnum Street, Landover Hills, Maryland, USA.
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May 20, 2006 |
- Pan Night & Day featuring - Pan
stars -
Uri Narinesingh; Ricardo Greenaway; Jambalasi with
Freddy Harris, III; Nicholas Mohan, Sonatas, Sesame Flyers
and more! Doors open at 8:00 PM. Showtime:
9:00 PM. Venue: Sesame Flyers Youth and
Cultural Center, 3510 Church Avenue, (between East 35th
Street and Brooklyn Avenue), Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- The Trinidad and Tobago Association of
Baltimore presents the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Steel Orchestra in Concert.
Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: Langsdale Library,
University of Baltimore, 1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore,
Maryland, USA. Call 1 (410) 925-8876 or (410) 323-8533
for more info.
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May 19, 2006
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-
I.S. 383 Spring Concert
featuring the Phillipa Schuyler Steelpan
Ensemble. Showtime: 7:30 PM.
Venue: Walt Whitman Hall, Brooklyn
College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New
York, USA.
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May
14, 2006 |
-
4th Annual Panorama Caribbean Music Festival .
Featuring various artists including the Samaroo Jets
and
Utopia Pan Soul: The Next Generation. Time:
12 Noon - 4:00 PM. Venue:
24th Street, Oceanfront Stage,
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
More info
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May
13, 2006 |
- Wichita Symphony Orchestra hosts
'Party at the Symphony.' Appearing is the
Pandemonium Steel Drum Band,
conducted by Michael Krajweski. Time: 8:00 PM.
Venue: Century II Convention Hall, 225 W. Douglas,
Wichita, Kansas USA
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4th Annual Panorama Caribbean Music Festival .
Time: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM. Performing are steel
orchestras in several categories. Venue:
24th
Street, Oceanfront Stage, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
More info
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4th Annual Panorama Caribbean Music Festival .
Featuring
the Samaroo Jets. Time: 8:00 PM. Venue:
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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May
12, 2006 |
-
4th Annual Panorama Caribbean Music Festival .
Workshops with Dr. Jit Samaroo, Tom Miller and Gary
Gibson. Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM.
Venue: Virginia Beach Convention Center (Meeting Room
1),
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
More info
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4th Annual Panorama Caribbean Music Festival .
Featuring the Samaroo Jets. Time: 8:00
PM. Venue: 31st
Street Oceanfront Stage, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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May 9, 2006 |
- Andy Narell & Calypsociation steel
orchestra perform. Showtime: 9:30 PM. Venue: Le Petit
Journal Montparnasse, #13, rue de commandant René Mouchotte
75014 Paris, FRANCE
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May 7, 2006 |
- 4th Annual Arts Quad Percussion Gala
featuring Cornell University Steel Bands & World Drum
& Dance Ensemble. Time: 6:00 PM. Venue: Cornell
University Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, USA.
-
The 17th
annual New England Pan Festival. Day 2:
Performances by fifteen community, school and college
bands from throughout New England including -
Blueberry PANcakes; Drum Wave; FLASH! In The Pans;
Hopkinton Steel; Mango Groove; Mad Anthony's Panhandlers;
PANUnited Steel Orchestra of Boston; Planet Pan; Rhythm
Rockets; Steel Dreams; Steel Industry; Steel Magnolias;
Steelin' Thunder; Tinpanic; Tropical Sensations
and The Vermont Panhandlers. Venue: the
Ham Arena, West Main Street, Conway, New Hampshire, USA.
For more info contact -
music@mountaintopmusic.org
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May 6, 2006
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- 28th Annual Wake Up The
Earth Festival.
Pan United Steel Orchestra is back for its 6th
season with the Earth Festival, as the steel orchestra
officially opens its carnival season at the festival's
annual parade. Parade starts at JP Centre, Jamaica
Plain, then travels down Centre Street to Lamartine Street.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The 17th annual New
England Pan Festival. The two-day (May 6-7) festival
starts on Saturday.
Day 1: Activities on first day include a jam session at
1:00 PM, workshops and
a try-out session from 5:00 - 6:00 PM, dinner and
party with the bands.
Venue: The Salyards Center for the Arts, 110 Main Street,
Conway, New Hampshire, USA. For more info
contact -
music@mountaintopmusic.org
-
Pannist Othello Molineaux performs
with the Afro-Latin-sounds of Rolando Matias and his band
Intrin-X-ico, as part of the Grand Marais Jazz Festival
which is in its 5th year. Time: 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM.
Venue: Arrowhead Center for the Arts, 51 W. 5th St. (W. 1st
Ave. & W. 5th St.), Grand Marais, Minnesota, USA
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May 5, 2006 |
-
Dutchy’s Pantastic Steel Orchestra, a youth steel band
under the direction of Derek de Vlugt, perform, and also
host an Art Show/Auction as a fundraiser. Time:
7:00 PM. Venue: 6304 SW 78 ST., South Miami,
Florida, USA. Email:
ddvderek@yahoo.com
for more info.
- Pan Jazz
featuring Lennard Jack & Fusion. Showtime: 9:00
PM. Venue: Pan Masters Panyard: 4559 Rhode Island Ave,
North Brentwood, Maryland, USA
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Apr. 30, 2006 |
- Inaugural OECS Junior Pan
Competition organized and hosted by the Dominica Steel
Pan Association. Workshops and demonstrations from
April 26 - 29. Participating steel orchestras
fielding twenty players aged sixteen and under will come
from Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Antigua
& Barbuda and host country Dominica. Guest appearance
by Tamana Pioneers Steel Orchestra from Trinidad and
Tobago. Time: 1:30 - 6:00 PM. Venue:
Botanical Gardens, Dominica, W.I.
- Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra
performs at the Last Lap Beach Party. Time: 3:00 PM;
venue: Magens Bay Beach ( Pan-in-Motion - round de neck
band), St. Thomas, V.I.
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Apr. 29, 2006 |
-
Utopia Pan Soul: The Next Generation
presents a Curry Q & Day Lime Trinbago style.
Music by Global Sounds and Utopia Pan Soul:
the Next Generation. Time: 12:00 PM -
7:00 PM. Venue: 816 East 49th Street
(between Avenue D and Foster Rd), Brooklyn, New York,
USA. Tickets and info: Marlon @ 1
(347) 228-3888; Soul @ 1 (917) 202-8241 and; Roy @ 1
(347) 742-8099
- Twelve conventional steel
orchestras compete in Pan In The 21st
Century, and twelve single pan
orchestras compete
in Pan Down Memory Lane. Time: 7:00 PM.
Venue: Queen's Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD,
W.I.
- Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra
performs at the Adult's Parade. Time: 10:00 AM; venue:
Main Street, St. Thomas, V.I.
- North Harris College’s Steel Drum
Festival. Daytime performances by visiting steel drum
bands and music professionals. Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM.
Venue: NHC main courtyard by the Fine Arts building,
NHC’s campus, 2700 W. Thorne Drive, Houston, Texas, USA. For
more info, call 1 (281) 765-7812.
-
An Evening of Percussion
North Harris
College’s Steel Band in Concert with Andy Narell, steel pan
player
as part of North Harris College’s Steel Drum Festival.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue: the college’s
Performing Arts Theatre, NHC’s campus, 2700 W. Thorne Drive,
Houston, Texas, USA. For more info, call 1 (281)
765-7812.
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Apr. 28-30, 2006 |
- Junior Gill
performs during weekend of April 28 - 30, at
the International Pan Enthusiasts Convention, along with
Switzerland's Kool Kats steel orchestra. Venue:
, Akron,
Ohio, USA
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Apr.
28, 2006 |
- Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra
performs at the Children's Parade. Time: 10:00 AM.
Venue: Main Street, St. Thomas, V.I.
Rising Stars will be rehearsing at their panyard in
Barbel Plaza, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 - 7:30 PM
and Fridays and Saturdays from 3:30 - 8:00 PM.
- Registration - DEADLINE - April 28,
2006 for PanMasters Annual Junior Pan Solo competition
scheduled for May 21, 2006.
Click
for application and more details. Venue:
Maryland, USA
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Apr.
26, 2006 |
- Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra
performs at the Carnival Fair. Time: 1:00 PM.
Venue: Post Office Square/Main Street, St. Thomas, V.I.
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Apr. 25, 2006 |
- Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra
performs at the Pre-teen Tramp. Time: 6:00 PM. Venue: Main
Street, St. Thomas, V.I.
Rising Stars will be rehearsing at their panyard in
Barbel Plaza, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 - 7:30 PM
and Fridays and Saturdays from 3:30 - 8:00 PM.
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Apr. 24, 2006 |
- Steel Plus Enterprises, Inc. invites
you to “A Presentation on Pan: The State of the Steel
Drum" - the only musical instrument invented in the 20th
Century. Featuring educators and pan
scholars including - Ian “Teddy” Belgrave, former
president of Pan in Schools Coordinating Council,
Nestor Sullivan, Manager of Pamberi Steel Orchestra and
Manager of Trinidad & Tobago National Steel Orchestra.
Information on the history and c ulture of the
Steel Drum. Music by veteran pannists,
and steel drum tuning demonstration. Time:
7:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue: St. Petersburg College Music
Center, corner of 5th
Avenue & 66th Street, St. Petersburg, Florida,
USA.
Please RSVP by Friday, April 21 to
steelplus@hotmail.com.
For additional info call 1 (813) 451-2801.
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Apr.
23, 2006
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-
Kaisoka Steelpan Ensemble performs at Sunday School.
Time: 3:00 PM. Venue: Bull and Bush Pub,
off Mandela Avenue, Gaborone, BOTSWANA, AFRICA
- 'Steelband
Arrangers in Concert.' Performance by
Utopia Pan Soul: The Next Generation.
Featured arrangers/pannists are Utopia's Sheldon
Elcock; ADLIB's Andre White; Dane Gulston; Patrick Davis;
Ruben Nelson; Oscar Williams and Michael Joseph.
Doors open at 5:00 PM. Showtime: 6:00 PM -
Midnight. Venue: Afrika House, 2265 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra
will perform at the Steelband Jamboree. Time:
5:00 PM. Venue: Lionel Roberts Stadium, ST.
THOMAS, V.I.
Rising Stars will be rehearsing at their
panyard in Barbel Plaza, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:30
- 7:30 PM and Fridays and Saturdays from 3:30 - 8:00 PM.
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Apr. 22, 2006
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- Central New York Day of
Percussion featuring
Linda Maxey, the Marassa Duo, Cornell
University Steel Band, Binghamton High School Steel Band,
Baldwinsville High School Indoor Drum Line. Time:
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM. Venue: Storer Auditorium,
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, New York. For
more info: contact Robert Bridge (bridger@mail.sunyocc.edu)
or go to:
http://myhome.sunyocc.edu/~bridger/cny06/cnydop06.htm
- Sesame Flyers International Inc.
presents Pan Extravaganza '06.
Featuring Bildersee Beacon Steel Orchestra, PS 276 Steel
Orchestra, Winthrop & Bildersee Beacon performers,
Antilles Connection with Freddy Harris, III and
Nicholas Mohan on pan, Women In Steel, Pan Sonatas
Steel Orchestra and
Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra. Time: 6:00 PM -
10:00 PM. Venue: Bildersee Beacon IS 68 Junior
High School @ 82nd Street, (between Flatlands
Ave. and Avenue J), Brooklyn, New York, USA. Admission
is free.
- Gala event - Join
Pan Fantasy Steelband as they celebrate their 20th
Anniversary. Doors open 6:00 PM, dinner will be served
at 7:00 PM. Showtime: 8:30 PM. Venue: Armenian
Community Centre Banquet Hall, 45 Hallcrown Place, Victoria
Park & Hwy 401, Toronto, CANADA. For information and
tickets please call 647-284-5315 or visit
www.panfantasy.com
- National Trail Steel Band Festival
featuring eight school steel bands performing along
with Tom Miller, Phil Hawkins, Dave Longfellow, Shelly
Irvine and Hal Melia. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: National
Trail School, 6940 Oxford-Gettysburg Road, New Paris, Ohio,
USA
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Apr.
20-21, 2006 |
- “Pan in the
21st Century: the Scholarship and Music of Steel
Drums.” - An interdisciplinary symposium of scholars and
practitioners in the steelpan industry.
Confirmed
speakers include: Dr. William R. Aho, Professor Emeritus,
Sociology, Rhode College, Providence, R.I.; Dr. Amilcar
Shabazz, Director, African American Studies Program and
Associate Professor, History, Oklahoma State University; Dr.
Uwe Hansen, Professor Emeritus, Physics, Indiana State
University; Dr. Bernice de Gannes-Scott, Associate
Professor, Economics, Spelman College; Dr. Aurelie
Helmlinger, Ethnomusicologist, Paris, France; Dr. Hollis
“Chalkdust” Liverpool; Nestor Sullivan; Manager Pamberi and
Operations, Manager of the National Orchestra of T&T; and
Dr. Kim Johnson, former Trinidad Express columnist. Mr.
Patrick Arnold, president of Pan Trinbago has been invited
to deliver the Keynote Luncheon Address. For
information, contact Dr. Ajamu Nyomba (404) 880-6286 or by
e-mail,
panatlanta@aol.com.
Venue:
The Exhibition Hall of the Thomas D. Cole, Jr., Research
Center for Science and Technology, Clark Atlanta University,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Apr. 20, 2006 |
- World Music Night featuring
performances by the Cornell Steel Bands and the
Cornell World Drum and Dance Ensemble under the direction of
James Armstrong. Special guests include the Cornell
World Music Choir and the Binghamton High School Steel
Band. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: Ho Plaza
and Willart Straight Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York, USA. For information visit:
http://percussion.music.cornell.edu/. Free
and open to the public.
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Apr. 14, 2006 |
- Calypsociation steel orchestra
under musical direction of
Andy Narell. Dinner at 8:00 PM. Showtime:
8:00 PM. Venue: Petit Journal
Montparnasse - 13, rue du commandant René Mouchotte -
F-75014 Paris, FRANCE
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Apr. 13, 2006 |
- Steel Band/World Music
Concert. WVU (West Virginia University) Steel
Ensemble performs, along with WVU Taiko Ensemble and
other world music-related ensembles. Time: 7:30
PM - 9:30 PM. Venue: Lyell B. Clay Concert
Theatre, Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia USA. Call 1 (304)
293-7469 for more info.
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Apr. 8, 2006 |
- 'Western New York Day of
Percussion' featuring several artists including:
the Hamburg High School Steel Drum Band, Buffalo
State College Percussion Ensemble, University at Fredonia
World Music Ensembles and others. Time: 10:00 AM -
4:00 PM. Venue:
Cardinal O’Hara High School, 1701 S.
Sproul Road, Springfield, Buffalo, New York, USA.
For more info: contact John Hathaway
(jhathaway@adelphia.net) or Bob Accurso (ihitstuff@adelphia.net).
- World-renowned pannist Robert
Greenidge performs, along with the
University of Akron Steel Drum Band. Time: 8:00
PM. Venue: Venue: EJ Thomas Hall, University of
Akron campus, Buchtel Avenue, Akron, Ohio, USA.
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Apr. 7, 2006
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- MIT's Caribbean Club, the American
Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the Office of
Minority Education host "Thank Goodness It's Friday"
featuring Pantonic Steel Orchestra. Time:
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Venue: outside the Student
Activities Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Apr. 4, 2006
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- University of Akron Steel Drum Band
in concert , directed by Dr.
Larry Snider. Time: 8:00 PM. Venue:
Mount Union Theatre, Mount Union College, 1972 Clark Avenue,
Alliance, Ohio, USA.
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Apr. 2, 2006 |
- "Steel Praisin'", the Christian
Steel Drum Orchestra presents its annual "Caribbean
Nite" concert celebration. Time: 7:00 PM. Venue:
the Family Life Center at Friedberg Moravian Church,
Friedberg Church Rd., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
For more info contact
triadpanman@earthlink.net.
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Mar. 25, 2006 |
- Pan Dreams, Pan Phonics, Tambarrias
and Tartargas perform at
Steel4Zug (Zuger Steelband Festival). Door opens 6:30
PM. Showtime: 8:00 PM. Venue: Chollerhalle,
Chamerstrasse 177, SWITZERLAND
- Panweekend 2006 - 2nd
Steelpan-Festival. Time: Noon. Venue:
downtown Dortmund – meet @ Alter Markt for street parade.
Nostalgia Pan round de neck & Bäng Bäng
Pan round de neck steelbands
- Panweekend 2006 -
Caribbean Night with Ebony
Steel orchestra, London; Bäng
Bäng
Steel orchestra, Dortmund;
Nostalgia Steelband, London.
Time: 7:00 PM. Solendo (beach
location), Hafenstrasse 2a , Dortmund, GERMANY.
For more info:
http://www.pan-kultur.de/
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Mar. 24, 2006 |
- Panweekend 2006 - 2nd
Steelpan-Festival. Pankids from Dortmund.
Kids from 8 Dortmund schools will unite for the biggest
kids’ steelband.
Pan-Kultur-kids present their programme: “PanGanG”
(18 kids and teens) as well as “Pan-Family-project”
(kids/parents-band).
ECS steelpan manufacturing:
check out the skills of master pan tuner Eckhard C. Schulz.
Info booth on steelpan, music and classes.
Time: 1:00 - 5:00 PM.
- Panweekend 2006 -
Steelpan in Concert &
PlayaLatino-Disco
Live music featuring “BIMA-Quintet”
(Dortmund) and “Samuel Dubois & Ebony Quintet”
(London) PlayaLatino Disco with DJ Jorge.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Solendo (beach
location), Hafenstrasse 2a , Dortmund, GERMANY.
For more info:
http://www.pan-kultur.de/
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Mar. 22, 2006 |
- Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra
directed by Freddie Harris (III)
perform as part of a program celebrating Black History
month. Other performances include Caribbean and African
dance. Time: 6:00 PM. Venue: the Rotunda in Brooklyn City
Hall, Borough Hall, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Mar.
9, 2006 |
- Youth World Music Concert.
Featuring ensembles from elementary, middle and high schools
from Morgantown and surrounding region. Groups include
African ensembles, steel drum ensembles, and Taiko
(Japanese drum) ensembles. Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30
PM. Venue: Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre,
Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
West Virginia USA. Call 1 (304) 293-7469 for
more info.
- Silverbull’s final Recital featuring -
DA BAND with Taurean Clarke on Steeldrums,
Jasmine Jones on Drums, Hayoun Lee on Piano and Tim Ball on
Electric Bass. Appearances by additional special
guests. Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Humber College,
Lakeshore & Kipling, A Building, Auditorium, 3199 Lake Shore
Blvd. W., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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Mar. 4, 2006 |
- Andy Narell & Sakesho perform.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: Buckman Performing
and Fine Arts Center (St. Mary's Episcopal School), 60
Perkins Ext. at Walnut Grove, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
For more info, email:
cyounker@stmarysschool.org.
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Mar. 3, 2006 |
- Andy Narell & Sakesho perform.
Time: 8:00 PM. Venue: F. A. Bower Theater,
1241 E. Kearsley St., Flint, Michigan, USA.
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Feb. 26, 2006 |
- Mellotones Steel Drum Band
perform at a brunch Performance. Time: 11 AM to
to 1:30 PM. Venue: Cheatham Dining Hall,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 2500 Rivermont Avenue,
Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. For more information, call 1 (434)
947-8142.
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Feb. 25, 2006 |
- Trinidad and Tobago Finals -
National Panorama Championship - Medium and Large
conventional steel orchestras.
Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: Queen's
Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Feb. 23, 2006 |
- Trinidad and Tobago National
Panorama Finals competition - Small conventional orchestras
and Single Pan bands.
Time: 7:00 PM. Venue: Skinner
Park, San Fernando, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Feb. 19, 2006 |
- Trinidad and Tobago Junior National
Panorama Finals - Conventional steel orchestras.
Time: 11:00 AM. Venue: Queen's Park Savannah,
Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Feb. 12, 2006 |
- Trinidad and Tobago National
Panorama Semi-Finals competition - small, medium and large
conventional steel orchestras. Time: 9:00
AM. Venue: Queen's Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain,
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Feb. 11, 2006 |
- Fourth Annual Gospel Fundraising
Extravaganza. Performing will be the St. John's
Baptist Choir; Handel and Victoria Smith of Celebration
Church; Guilford Baptist Men's Choir; Morgan University
Dance Ensemble; Gospel Revelations; and
Tage Steel Drum Band.
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Venue: Jim Rouse Theatre,
Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Road, Columbia, USA
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Feb. 4, 2006 |
- Annual Black History Celebration from
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Scheduled are various events,
including an African-American Marketplace throughout, Black
Culture Club Mi Phi Me Steppers, Sogbety Diomande
(African drumming and dance) and the
Columbus Caribbean Steeldrum Orchestra.
Steeldrum performance time: Noon. Venue:
Mansfield/Richland County Public Library, 43 West Third
Street, Mansfield, Ohio, USA
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Feb. 3 - 8, 2006 |
- Trinidad and Tobago
National Panorama PRELIMINARIES competition. Small,
Medium and Large conventional steel orchestras.
Venues: Throughout the country at respective panyards.
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, W.I.
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Jan. 1, 2006 |
- London’s spectacular 20th
annual New Year’s Day Parade featuring many participants
including St. Joseph's Convent School Steelband (from St.
Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago), appearing in "Act 1."
Parade starts at 12 Noon in Parliament Square and finishes
on Piccadilly, at Berkeley Street at approximately 3 PM,
London, ENGLAND
- Paquito D'Rivera & Panamericana -
featuring Paquito D'Rivera (clarinet and alto saxophone),
Dave Samuels (vibes and marimba), Andy Narell (steel
drums), Alon Yavnai (piano), Dana Leong (cello and
trombone), Raul Jaurena (bandoneon), Pernell Saturnino
(drums and percussion), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), Mark Walker
(drums). Showtimes: Two shows per night -
7:30 and 9:30 PM. Venue: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola:
Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor.
New York, New York, USA .
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