Community Music
Bangor, Maine, USA - ....Read about three community music groups that have people playing, dancing, and singing, all summer long.
....Flash! in the Pans
When you listen to the music of a steel drum band you’re probably imagining yourself sitting on a beautiful sand beach overlooking the Atlantic. That beach is probably in the Caribbean somewhere, right? For some, steel drum music has them overlooking the Atlantic from the Blue Hill Peninsula. That’s right—steel drum music is alive and well in the Blue Hill area, which has one of the largest community steel drum bands in the nation.
Coastal Maine and steel drum band music may seem like an odd pairing, but the 35 members of Flash! in the Pans steel drum band and their fans don’t think so. Pan music, as it’s called, began on the peninsula with Carl Chase, who started Flash 22 years ago.
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