30 CARIB NEWS Week Ending March 16, 1993

Steel Pan Explosion master Ken Philmore has served as concert halls and community centers ounds of !, a series arranger for the group. The C. A. S. Y.M. throughout the country and was named celebrating Brooklyn's diverse _ w_ *-\ _ —l^rtiftiir-the 1991 Stee*l Ban«-^-d. Festival Cham- musical traditions, continues Steel Orchestra is under the direction of steel pan champion soloist Arddin pion at Lincoln Center. on Saturday, March 20th with an Herbert. C.A.S.Y.M. (Caribbean- evening of exhilarating . American Sports and Cultural Youth This series is made possible The program is a tribute to Ellie Movement) has been training young in part by a grant from the Folk Arts Mannette, one of Trinidad's most fa- Program of the NBA. Additional fund- mous pan tuners and an early pioneer West Indian Americans in the fine art of pan playing for nearly a decade. The ing has been made available by of the steel pan movement. Featured NYSCA. are pan soloist Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, group has performed at universities, one of the great international innova- tors in the steel pan tradition; the leg- endary B.W.I.A. Sonatas; and the C.A.S.Y.M. Steel Orchestra, one of the city's top young steel bands. Pre- ceding the concert is a workshop with Ellie Mannette and Les Slater of the Trinidad and Tobago Folklore Insti- tute. Len "Boogsie" Sharpe has ex- panded the boundaries of steel pan music with his innovative arrange- ments. He has received numerous hon- ors in steel pan competitions in Trin- idad and Tobago, Europe and North Len "Boogsie" Sharpe : Pan Maestro America and recorded with all the lead- ing soca singers and calypso stars in- with the Monty Alexander Quartet and cluding World Calypso King, the Mighty" Sparrow, the Lord Kitchener, Nexus. Mighty Duke, , and the Mighty Chalkdust. He has arranged The B.W.I. A. Sonatas, formed for'many of Trinidad's top steel or- in 1971, is one of Brooklyn's oldest chestras, including Phase 11 Pan and most respected steel orchestras. Groove, performed with jazz greats Throughout the 1980s, it placed at or Wynton Marsalis, Randy W'eston, Art near the top at the West Indian Carni- Blakey and Gary Burton, and toured val in Brooklyn. In recent years pan