We are currently working on planning an education based steelpan festival for the Great Lakes area. The festival will likely be taking place within the chicagoland area and will be geared towards school bands that are looking to expand their knowledge of the instrument, not just another venue to perform at. The festival will take place during the weekend of April 13-14, 2013.
We are starting to pick up some momentum and there has been a lot of interest from people like Gary Gibson, Ellie Mannette, Darren Sheppard, Billy Sheeder, Emily Lemmerman, Freddy Harris III, and more. We are currently working on building an itinerary though and would love some feedback from the community about what they would like to see in this new festival.
We have posted a possible itinerary to our website, also attached here, that is very full and shows what could be possible. This is just a launch pad for discussion though, so please feel free to critique it and offer your suggestions. Please check out our website, steelpanfestival.com/survey, to take our survey about organizing the festival. Also, feel free to send an e-mail to surveys@steelpanfestival.com with direct feedback about the itinerary or the festival in general. You can also leave comments here.
This festival is designed to help promote steelpan education and without the feedback from the steelpan community, it will not become as much of an asset to the pan as it could be.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Comments
Thanks Bertel!
Way to go Matt !