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Wiemer-Hastings - Steelband Bass player receives Palmer Family scholarship

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Sycamore, Illinois, USA – Jesse Wiemer-Hastings, a graduate of DeKalb High School, is the recipient of the 2020 Palmer Family Music Education Scholarship award.

Historically, the scholarship recipient is honored at the first DeKalb M

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New piece for Pan Ensemble

Hi everyone. I wanted to share a new piece I had premiered that features a pan ensemble. Players include lead, double seconds, triple cellos, and six bass. Score and link are listed below, I hope you guys enjoy it! Please let me know your thoughts.

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Despers USA's long-time bass player, “Keith” Incherry Hunt has passed

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Despers USA - on the passing of their long-time bass player popularly known as “Keith” Incherry Hunt. He is dearly missed.

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NEVILLE JULES pioneer, innovator, arranger, & noted leader in an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks

Circa 1934 in Trinidad, when only rhythms were being beaten on the "tamboo bamboo", bottle and spoon, etc. - (the British having banned outright the beating of African drums in 1931), and the Steelpan had not yet come into being, Neville Jules was

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Probably the only web site dedicated entirely to the steelpan in Spanish.

 

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Remembering Lovely Latavia... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Tenor bass player

New York, USA - .- Miguel Reyes’s The Last Band sung by Peter D’Royce was the last Panorama piece lovely Latavia Deane got to perform with Despers USA Steel Orchestra, when the band competed in the 2010 New York Panorama. A song that makes one dance

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"DRIVE" SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER, CLIFF MARTINEZ AND HIS USE OF THE BASS PAN

Did anyone see this interview? Notice the bass pans in the background? This percussionist/composer appreciates the unique tone that can only come from a bass pan. Oh how I long for the day when we (as a country) learn to truly value our national inst

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