AMBRIDGE — It has represented Ambridge in the Rose Bowl parade and warmed a crowd for Steven Spielberg in San Francisco.
The Ambridge Area High School Steel Drum Band has showcased its mood-lifting, Caribbean-seasoned music far and wide.
The group celebrates its 30th anniversary with a May 5 concert where it all began: at Ambridge High.
The 3 p.m. performance in the school’s Bridger Theatre will feature guests the River City Brass Band from Pittsburgh and steel pan virtuoso Liam Teague from Trinidad and Tobago, the island that started the steel drum art form. Teague will conduct a master class for the steel band students Friday during school.
The concert marks a good chance for the public to catch up with one of western Pennsylvania’s most sought-after scholastic music ensembles, which averages 40 to 50 gigs a year.
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