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Island Time Steel Drums
Performances, Workshops and Residency Programs
 "Your steel drum workshop was a miraculous event at our school. The students presented amazing music in less than a week. It was fun, informative, the students learned teamwork, and the cultural background of the music as well. Fantastic!"
Catherine M. Mitchell: Arts coordinator,
Ocracoke Island, NC
Scott Paulson brings his Island Time Steel Drum vibe to your school with a performance, workshop or "artist in residence" program. Steel Drums are the perfect instruments to enable students to come together and play as an ensemble regardless of their musical experience. Anyone can sound good on these wonderful instruments, whether they've had years of musical training of non at all! Music notation reading is not required!
For info or quotes contact Scott at visavt@aol.com or 802-234-6987
Offerings:
Performances
Island Time is a high energy duo. Shows are 30-60 minute "informances" that include descriptions of the construction and origins of steel drums between rollicking musical numbers. Multiple performances in a given day are possible.
Video of Island Time
For the real steel band experience, the Panhandlers bring multiple (5-10) players to your school for an exciting evening performance of up to 90 minutes. The Panhandlers have played well over 100 performances at festivals, fairs, parades and Summer concerts.
Video of The Panhandlers
Workshops and Residencies
One day workshops to two week residencies available. Session lengths and scheduling to be determined by host needs.
Grades K-3: A Steel Drum Experience!
Basic components: Usually one or two meetings
What a steel drum is, where it came from and how they are made. Various media are utilized to illustrate these topics.
Descriptions of the 6 different voices or sections in a Steel Band. What the sections are called, their pitch ranges and their different jobs or functions within the band.
The social elements (put in a simple context) of the birth and rise of the Steel Pan Movement in Trinidad.
Videos of various steel bands playing in Trinidad and the US. Also of Steel Bands playing traditional and non-traditional music genres.
Guided playing experience. Students are carefully instructed on how to use the mallets and move when near the instruments. They are given the opportunity to try the various voices of pan. We may then start working on a simple tune that they all play in unison depending on time available.
Watch video of "DON'T PLAY NOW" from the 2011 Green Mountain Suzuki Institute. Footage is the first meeting and then the "sharing" 3 days later!
Grades 4-12: Steel Band Performance!
Basic componants: Usually several daily meetings
Generally all of the same components as above but with more age appropriate details especially concerning the social issues involved with the birth and rise of the steelband movement and the development of the instrument to a level of national pride. We will see footage documenting some of these elements as well as steelband footage from Trinidad and other countries. This may be spread out over several days if time allows so that the students are connecting the feeling of the social climate in Trinidad to what they are doing musically.
The students are then coached on mallet technique and basic playing methods and start working on a simple piece. Their will usually be opportunities for students to perform on different voices of pan if they so choose.
In a multi day workshop/residency we will build on skills learned, increasing the complexity of the repertoire, culminating ideally in a sharing involving the school / organization / parents.
Middle School Group "Pass the Peazz" from 4 day residency on Ocracoke Island, NC in March 2010. Video shows the process from day 1 to day 4 performance.
High School Group "The Phytoplanktons" from 4 day residency on Ocracoke Island, NC in March 2010. Video shows the process from day 1 to day 4 performance.
Scott's listing in the Vermont Arts Council Arts Directory
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