Boston Herald
The Folk Craft area includes “Making, Playing & Tuning Steel Pans” by Carl Smith and Justin Petty of BostonBoston, USA - Discover how a range of acoustic musical instruments are made in this year’s Folk Craft area of the Lowell Folk Festival...Learn about the making of world class pipe organs that fill concert halls, uilleann pipes that enliven Irish music seisuns, Middle Eastern ouds, Hardanger fiddles and violin bows that spur on dancers, revived tiples and cuatros, and Trinidad’s steel pans that evoke the Caribbean.
....One highlight includes “Making, Playing & Tuning Steel Pans” with Carl Smith and Justin Petty of Boston.
....Smith grew up Trinidad, the steel band Mecca of the world. In 1978, he brought the pan to Boston where he makes instruments, plays and teaches local youth as manager of Branches Steel Band. Petty joined the Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra in St. Thomas before moving to Massachusetts, where he has performed and arranged for the steel pan for over 30 years; under his musical directorship, Branches has won multiple competitions.
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II Played with Invaders in 60s with Trevor Charles after the guns left for starlift.I am from la puerta ave 4roads.
yself and Carl go back long time.Shane
Shane in Hollywood, Florida, did u play in Invaders in d early 60s? I recall a Shane,think he was from Carenage who played with us then.
Carl is one of d men who showed me my first tunes on guitar pan in Invaders. A true pan s o l d i e r.
Good work boss,Please keep up the good works nice to hear that things is going.Shane in Hollywood Florida.Talk to you soon