New York, USA - As fate would have it, or simply scheduling - to this point in the New York steel orchestras’ Summer performing series of launches and panyard openings, When Steel Talks (WST) has not seen or heard the mighty Sonatas Steel Orchestra. Clearly going into the third of week of live performances and fielding a litany of the obligatory off-season rumors, facts and fabrications - not seeing the vaunted black and gold colors of the all-time NY steelband music panorama champions was of concern.
....The bands were there. The music was there. The fans - not so there. It could be that the New York Steelpan music community doesn’t like Saturday night launches anymore. Or the 90-plus degree weather for the last couple of days had simply been too much to handle. Or they don’t like KC’s ‘Hideaway’ - which is now just that - a dark, unlit, uninviting gravel stone hidden area. Or, could it be simply steelpan music lovers’ frustration with that chronic lack of time management which plagues most New York pan events year after year - the issue of hearing the first steel orchestra, hours after the advertised start time?
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