“At age 25 I will be a first time, female arranger on a National Panorama stage and I want that to inspire other women to take that leap….it is humbling and a great burden at the same time. I am ready for the challenge. ”
She is an educator, performing artist and the first female Panorama arranger in the history of Antigua & Barbuda. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - multitalented instructor and musician Zahra Lake shares her, intellect, optimism, expectations and views on the Steel Pan music art form in Antigua & Barbuda and more.
Bugs: Ah bet yuh doh know that is ANTIGUA that forced TRINIDAD'S hand to send TASPO to the FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN in 1951!!! And that was the seminal EVENT for the GLOBALIZATION OF PAN!!!
Ah does still wonder how PAN get organized in Antigua so fast. Maybe they invented the PAN ... I doh know!!!
And mi amigo , Brute Force met T.A.S.P.O their, the decision to send the group to London was Lennox Pierre a musician and attorney/Barrister at Law, who later arranged for Invaders, and Andrew Carlyle Carr, Sydney Gallop was the President and George Goddard was the Secretary, Major Joseph Nathanial Griffith a Barbadian, was the arranger for the ensemble who wrote the 1st tune for the steel pan band , "Return of the Allies", the 2nd person to write a tune for pan was Richard James, Filo James older brother for his band "New town Nightingales", "Richard Mambo" 1953, TASPO left for London July of 1951, Sterling Bethancourt and Boots Philmore Davidson stayed back, but returned home 10 years later Bethancourt became a permanent resident there, he was already a British Citizen by Birth, as T&T was under Colonial rule,...
Claude Gonzales > Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninhoJuly 20, 2017 at 10:27pm
JJJ: Yuh going down the wrong road!!! I said that ANTIGUA FORCED TRINIDAD to send TASPO to the FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951 -- yuh CANNOT argue with that!! So let us start there and come forward!!!
Claude Gonzales > Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninhoJuly 20, 2017 at 10:51pm
JJJ: I have the MOST RESPECT for your historical knowledge of PAN. I encourage you all the time to WRITE YOUR BOOK because you are an AUTHORITY ON PAN!
But on this very "narrow discussion" (and, by the way, I always keep my discussions on PAN very narrow) you cannot WIN me on this one!!!
Go read the CIRCUMSTANCES!!! Go find out how DESPERATE the TRINIS got when they found out that ANTIGUA STEELBAND was selected to represent the WEST INDIES with PAN.
The one philosophy I have upheld for myself on this forum is to stay with what I KNOW. As you have said (And I agree): WHO DOH KNOW DOH KNOW!!!
By the way, I have only PLAYED MAS once in my life and that was with BRUTE FORCE STELBAND in 1961 in St. John's. Antigua!!!
Ah still love ANTIGUA!!! So doh worry to fret yuh go get bet!!! (Ah little bit of Sparrow -- modified!!!)
mi amigo, sometime back, about a year or 2 ago on WST, this ANTIGUAIN, was claiming that they are celebrating their 70th Anniversary of steel pan history, as if they had invented PAN/it, from 1946 in Antigua, I went ballistics on his ass, this guy was from, was it Hell's Gates or Brute Force Steel Band, where I knows that NO STEEL DRUMS WAS AVAILABLE to anyone out side of Trinidad before 1947, so he LIED LIED LIED, as Trinidad was the only place/island the U.S.Army had PT Boats, and these oil drums contained fuel and oil to maintain the fleets patrol around the Island, pan started back in 1936, and the actual 55 gallon drum derived in 1945, where it was Kelvin Morris and Anthony Williams in May of 1945, when they went to catch crabs and saw these drums, at Chagramas at the time where MOVIE TOWN is know located today, and the soldiers shot in the air to warm them, so they went back the next day and rolled 2 drums out, Williams and Morris said...
Claude Gonzales > Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninhoJuly 20, 2017 at 10:04pm
Mon Ami: Have you ever heard of COOLIDGE FIELD, Antigua -- where I lived for TWO YEARS in the very early NINETEEN SIXTIES? Check it out, MON AMI!!!
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Aquil: Ah doh know why ah love you so/yuh sweeter than a RIPE MANGO ... stolen from CRAZY!!!
Beautiful! Her accomplishments and her appearances. Wish her all the best.
Bugs: Ah bet yuh doh know that is ANTIGUA that forced TRINIDAD'S hand to send TASPO to the FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN in 1951!!! And that was the seminal EVENT for the GLOBALIZATION OF PAN!!!
Ah does still wonder how PAN get organized in Antigua so fast. Maybe they invented the PAN ... I doh know!!!
And mi amigo , Brute Force met T.A.S.P.O their, the decision to send the group to London was Lennox Pierre a musician and attorney/Barrister at Law, who later arranged for Invaders, and Andrew Carlyle Carr, Sydney Gallop was the President and George Goddard was the Secretary, Major Joseph Nathanial Griffith a Barbadian, was the arranger for the ensemble who wrote the 1st tune for the steel pan band , "Return of the Allies", the 2nd person to write a tune for pan was Richard James, Filo James older brother for his band "New town Nightingales", "Richard Mambo" 1953, TASPO left for London July of 1951, Sterling Bethancourt and Boots Philmore Davidson stayed back, but returned home 10 years later Bethancourt became a permanent resident there, he was already a British Citizen by Birth, as T&T was under Colonial rule,...
JJJ: Yuh going down the wrong road!!! I said that ANTIGUA FORCED TRINIDAD to send TASPO to the FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951 -- yuh CANNOT argue with that!! So let us start there and come forward!!!
NO THEY DID NOT...
JJJ: I have the MOST RESPECT for your historical knowledge of PAN. I encourage you all the time to WRITE YOUR BOOK because you are an AUTHORITY ON PAN!
But on this very "narrow discussion" (and, by the way, I always keep my discussions on PAN very narrow) you cannot WIN me on this one!!!
Go read the CIRCUMSTANCES!!! Go find out how DESPERATE the TRINIS got when they found out that ANTIGUA STEELBAND was selected to represent the WEST INDIES with PAN.
The one philosophy I have upheld for myself on this forum is to stay with what I KNOW. As you have said (And I agree): WHO DOH KNOW DOH KNOW!!!
By the way, I have only PLAYED MAS once in my life and that was with BRUTE FORCE STELBAND in 1961 in St. John's. Antigua!!!
Ah still love ANTIGUA!!! So doh worry to fret yuh go get bet!!! (Ah little bit of Sparrow -- modified!!!)
mi amigo, those circumstances was pure PROPAGANDISM....
mi amigo, sometime back, about a year or 2 ago on WST, this ANTIGUAIN, was claiming that they are celebrating their 70th Anniversary of steel pan history, as if they had invented PAN/it, from 1946 in Antigua, I went ballistics on his ass, this guy was from, was it Hell's Gates or Brute Force Steel Band, where I knows that NO STEEL DRUMS WAS AVAILABLE to anyone out side of Trinidad before 1947, so he LIED LIED LIED, as Trinidad was the only place/island the U.S.Army had PT Boats, and these oil drums contained fuel and oil to maintain the fleets patrol around the Island, pan started back in 1936, and the actual 55 gallon drum derived in 1945, where it was Kelvin Morris and Anthony Williams in May of 1945, when they went to catch crabs and saw these drums, at Chagramas at the time where MOVIE TOWN is know located today, and the soldiers shot in the air to warm them, so they went back the next day and rolled 2 drums out, Williams and Morris said...
Mon Ami: Have you ever heard of COOLIDGE FIELD, Antigua -- where I lived for TWO YEARS in the very early NINETEEN SIXTIES? Check it out, MON AMI!!!
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