Wilde Lake High School's Steel Drum Panorama will have the audience closing their eyes and traveling to the islands on Feb. 14.
The Steel Drum Panorama features the school's steel drum band along with bands from Centennial and Howard high schools for an evening that will be a "wonderful island experience," according to organizers.
"At the concert with everybody's drums on stage at the same time, it is a fantastic thing to see," said Lou Dutrow, band director at Wilde Lake High School. "They all wear floral shirts. It is very 'islandy.'"
Wilde Lake High School's steel drum band formed seven years ago, when the school inherited a set of steel drums from another school. It had been a dream of Dutrow's to start a steel drum band since taking a summer class years before.
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All I know is that with over 700 STEELDRUM BANDS in various school across the US and with numerous musically trained teachers (with very diverse musical backgrounds) -- STAR PLAYERS (who are not musically one dimensional) are going to emerge downstream and they will be traipsing all over the GLOBE representing the INSTRUMENT. While the talent in Trinidad sits around waiting to play in the NEXT PANORAMA.
Where the FCUK are these North Americans going with this STEEL DRUM PANORAMA fcukery? .We made it and we named it the STEELPAN.
Too many Trini ex-pats will sell their cultural birth right once in North America.