Alabama, USA - Unity students got a real taste of the source waters for steel drumming when they performed at the first annual Southeast Steel Band Carnival Saturday April 14th. This was the renaissance concert event for Alabama’s famed Montieth Ampitheatre, inside the now de-commissioned Fort McClellan army base. This venue once entertained soldiers of our greatest generation with such notable celebrities as Bob Hope and Marlene Dietrich. Saturday, the piney hills of Alabama reverberated with the unmistakable melodies of Calypso played on authentic 55 gallon steel drums by experts from Georgia, Alabama, and beyond.
The “Lions of Steel” were on hand by a personal invitation of the host, Tony McCutchins, Professor, Emeritus of the Percussion Department of the University of Georgia and now Director of Percussion at Jacksonville State University; JSU, as many local band students already know, is the power-house marching outfit in the region.
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