“The Origins and Early Growth of New York’s Steel Band Movement” takes place from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM and will be held in Room S122 of the School of Professional and Community Development, located at 1637 Bedford Avenue (between Crown and Carroll Streets) Brooklyn, on the Medgar Evers campus. It is part of an ongoing series of forums centered on Trinidadian art and culture, involving collaboration between the Folk Arts Institute and Medgar Evers College. The four scheduled panelists are Caldera Carabello, Rudy Estwick, Lennox Leverock and Roy Sangster. This foursome has aggregated a formidable record of involvement in steel band happenings in New York going back to the 1950s. After he arrived in New York from Trinidad, Carabello’s involvement in the New York steel pan scene included a stint playing and touring with Harry Belafonte, in addition to later leading his own group. Estwick, Leverock and Sangster were all actively in the mix in the early stages as the New York movement attempted to gain a foothold. Eventually the early New York-originated bands would provide entertainment not only within the West Indian community but in all manner of occasions outside of it, including innumerable engagements for white audiences captivated by the alluring island sound.
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