Petoskey High School band directors, assistant principal remain on administrative leave

Steve Foley
The Petoskey News-Review

Petoskey, Michigan, USA - Public Schools of Petoskey Superintendent Chris Parker addressed the situation regarding three band instructors and an assistant principal who are all currently on paid leave during Thur

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WSBF2000 - Remembering Pan pioneer, pan ambassador, master pan maker, tuner, player, Elliot 'Ellie' Mannette (05Nov1927, 29Aug2018 RIP)

WSBF2000 - Remembering Pan pioneer, pan ambassador, master pan maker, tuner, player, Elliot 'Ellie' Mannette (05Nov1927, 29Aug2018 RIP)

       THE FINAL NIGHT

   World Steelband Music Festival 2000

21st October 2000

Images: Looking West. The Jean Pi

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Documentary of Crellin’s steel drum project to be premiered at Garrett 8 Cinemas

The Garrett County Republican

Parents Chip Miller and Cindy and Jamie Hauser are pictured as they drilled holes in a drum head during the April project at Crellin Elementary.

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Fathers’ Day steel drum concert set at 4-H center

The Franklin News Post

Event benefits SML Good Neighbors

Virginia, USA - SML’s Parrot Pan and Toucan Pan steel drum bands will perform for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 19 at 3 p.m. in the W.E. Skelton 4-H Center’s covered pavilion.

“This will be the

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WST in NUMBERS (Numbers do not lie.)

The following is a look at the numbers, as they relate to discussions on WST (When Steel Talks):

• Number of views of WST Interviews: Salmon Cupid 158, Brian Copeland 156, George D. Goddard 199.
• Percentage of WST members who openly opposed the use of

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Steel Pan on #YouTube

YouTube is the second largest search engine on the planet. We don't think of it as a search engine, but in addition to being an excellent video resource, it is used as a search engine. What I would like to see on YouTube is more quality music featuri

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Palm Beach Steel Drums and Pans – featuring the only-one-of-its-kind 46" Pan - World’s Largest Steel Drum

Palm Beach Steel Drums and Pans

Florida, USA - Reel Ting rolled out its version of the “Terminator,” a massive 46" Steel Drum that can be heard...! This impressive musical instrument has been submitted to the Guinness Book of World records as the Wor

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Othello Molineaux - The Unmentioned Jazz Improvisation Master

Whenever mentioned is made of the great pan soloists and  jazz improvisation masters, none is made of Othello Molineaux? Why is that? Othello's and Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel, Othello's works with the legendary Jaco Pastorius  and the legendar

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Pan On The Move: The Steelband Supporter

With the advent of racks with wheels, came the challenging and gruesome task of moving steelbands from one place to another. That task was willingly and voluntarily picked up by none other than the steelband supporter. Were it not for those who becam

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Who Is/Was Your Flag Woman? What Memorable Stories Can You Share?

When I played in Merrytones, we had a Flag Woman that goes by the name "Mama Cita". Mama Cita! lol. (merrytonestodebone could probably share more on her being chosen as the flag woman.) She was a very colorful and animated character. I didn't know he

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Ah Doh Care What Dey Say; PAN is Here To Stay!!!

The Longevity Of The Steel Drum/Pan by George D. Goddard, B.A.

Cosmetic Surgery: If pan was a human body, there are many who believe that "Nature" (God) made mistakes, and made something that was imperfect, and needing perfection. So, like the human

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Duets or Trio? Is a client getting value with a duet?

Trawl through YouTube and you will hear lots of annoying duets trying to perform some basic melodies on the Pan. Most them sound very empty because they choose the wrong combination of instruments for the type of booking. Ofcourse, this is a matter

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The Steel Drum or Steelpan: A Member of the Idiophone Family Of Instruments. (No. 111.24)

The steel drum or steelpan is classified as an idiophone, by the Hornbostel-Sacs Number System (111.24).The P.H.I., E-Pan, MalletKat, and PanKat, however, are classified as "electrophones" (Numbers not assigned). Therefore, the E-Pan is NOT a steelpa

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Honoring The Sheroes Of The Steelband Movement: Maneuvering A Gender-Based Society

In continuing to focus on the (often) unmentioned heroes of the Steelband Movement, we must acknowledge and honor those women who were instrumental in "pan moving forward". The STEELBAND SHEROES! Indeed, once the "steelbandsmen" figured out how to co

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KRISTA: Thanks for the music and magic, Bruce Weil - steelband music teacher retires

Cincinnati.com

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - Periodically, throughout his 25 years of teaching in Cincinnati Public Schools and starting the wildly popular Over-the-Rhine Steel Drum Band and Clark Montessori Steel Band, Bruce Weil would be interviewed by r

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John Glenn High School in New Concord forms steel drum band

The Daily Jeffersonian

Cambridge, Ohio, USA - Those who chance to hear sounds of the Caribbean wafting around the village, Cambridge or Zanesville should not be too surprised. Their ears are not deceiving them. There's a new band in town and it's br

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Re: Miami pots and pans tradition explained. (Another WTF Moment in Pan History.)

As I listen to and read the "explanations" for the Miami Heat fans' "pots and pans tradition", I become more and more amused. So amused, that I had to shed some Ghostly "inconvenient truths" to my Latino peeps. This is what I came up with...how do yo

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B-B students drum up lesson on Caribbean rhythms

GETTING THE BEAT: Musician Ted Canning leads a group of Byron-Bergen fifth-graders in a traditional Trinidadian steel drum song as part of a grant-funded Artists in Education project.

 

Bergen - NY, USA — Trinidad and Tobago may be a long way from B

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Steel drum program - 'Soundwaves' - for teens a hit but needs permanent funding

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Pennsylvania, USA - Janera Solomon, the theater's executive director, wasn't content to just listen to the students rehearse. She picked up a pair of mallets and joined the students, bobbing along to the beat. As the daughter

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Hanover concert celebrates steel drum program

Pennsylvania, USA - Several Hanover middle and high school students showed off their musical talent at the first Hanover Steel drum concert held Sunday afternoon.

The students performed alongside steel drum instructor and musician Eric Fountain, of

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