The 1st Australian Steelband Festival 2013 – Video and Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_f8m1Mt_o The 1st Australian Steelband Festival Video 2013   International News (from pan-jumbie.com) Apr 17, 2013 A Fantastic Experience! AU – 1st Australian Steelband Festival, April 12 – 14, 2013 in Marysville, Victoria, Australia.  Review by Mark Loquan. When I arrived in mid-2012 in Perth, Australia, I wondered if I would somehow encounter steelbands or pan…

Steelpan – a theraputic instrument

Pans on Fire is a steelpan band formed in January 2010 in the Marysville and Triangle District after the Victorian bushfires of February 2009, using pans made in Taggerty by Werner Egger. The aim of Pans on Fire is to assist in the recovery process, with all band members coming from the bushfire-affected regions. In…