Musical pioneers go panning for gold

Northumberland Gazette

Members of the band Steel QuakeNorthumberland, England - Blending the traditional with Trinidad, youngsters from north Northumberland are taking part in the largest celebration of newly-composed music the UK has seen.

Drawn from Wooler’s Steel Quake and Berwick’s Mango Music Shed, a dozen young steel-pan players, aged nine to 20, are the core musicians in Panning for Gold, a new composition by Northumbrian musician Alistair Anderson.

Commissioned by Sage Gateshead, as part of The New Music Biennial, Alistair was asked to create new music that would blend the windswept energy of Northumbrian traditional music with the sunny optimism of Trinidad – home of the steel-pan tradition.

The young pan players are joined by scratch DJ Adam Cogdon, clog-dancer Laura Connolly, composer Alistair Anderson on concertina and Wendy Doyle as pan soloist.
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