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- 1783
- Mass exodus from Haiti, Martinique & Guadeloupe
White population >> 100 -> 2500
- Introduction of Mardi Gras (Christmas to Ash Wednesday)
- Slave & colored population >> 500 -> 16000
- On plantation festivals banned
- Establish own celebration Cannes Brulees (Canboulay)
- Introduce own dance (calinda) & own songs to African drums
- 1838
- Emancipation
Canboulay celebrated yearly on August 1st, later moved to Sunday
before Ash Wednesday
Mardi Gras on Monday & Tuesday
Ex-slaves replace Mardi Gras with Canboulay
Whites withdraw and denounce the festivities
- 1858
- Banning of Sunday revelry
- 1881
- Canboulay riots
- 1884
- Ordinance African drums outlawed from participating in Canboulay
Band size restriction
- Yields sporadic & violent outbursts over the years
- 1900
- Colonial government & business community take control of Canboulay
- Organized into disciplined parade of masquerade bands
- Bands vie for competitive prizes
- Upper class return to festivities
- 1931
- Outright banning of African drums by the British
Tamboo Bamboo replace African drums as main musical medium
- "boom" for low tones
- "foule" or "buller" for mid-range
- "cutter" for counterpoint/lead
- 1935
- Tamboo Bamboo banned
Gonzales Tamboo-Bamboo Band introduce bass pan
- 1936
- Alexander Ford establishes The Alexander Ragtime Band
Sweet-oil pans, dust bins, biscuit pans: convex - shape
Sticks without rubber
- 1937
- Steelband competition held at Queen's Park Oval
- Alexander Rag Time Band (winner)
- Hell Ward
- Second Eleven
- 1939
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Carnival suspended
- Bands parade illegally
- 3 note ping-pong introduced
- Experimentation begins
- 1940
- Roaring Lion - first calypso ever composed for the steelband
- Brute Force (Antigua) - first band to use rubber on sticks to play bass
- Hollywood influence on band names (violence, force, terror,
heroes & movies)
- Hell Yard >> "All Stars"
- Merry Boys >> "Casablanca"
- Laventille Boys >> "Desperadoes"
- River Lady >> "Destination Tokyo"
- Age of "badjohn"
- 1941
- Invaders formed by Ellie Mannette
- 1945
- V.E. day (May)
- Tenor kettle (5 notes), ping pong, cuff boom, dudup (bass kettle)
appear in the bands of revelers
- Developments (1945-1950)
- sweet-oil drums (ping pong) sunk in convex fashion
- 5 to 7 notes
- held in one hand, rubberless stick in other
- oil drum sunk in concave fashion
- 15 notes with rubber-tipped sticks
- competitions begin in Port of Spain & San Fernando
- notes continue to be added to instruments
- 1949
- Antigua Steelband Association formed - 8 members
- "The Steelband Herald" published as its official paper
- ...steelbandsmen attained a standard of performance which equals
if not surpasses that of the best there is in Trinidad.,
Sunday Guardian, January 26, 1951, p.17
- Antigua's "Brute Force" steelband gets picture in
"The Times Survey of the Colonies"
- Hell's Gate is planned to represent West Indian steelbands in
Festival of Britain
- 1950
- Steelband Committee setup by government to investigate steelband
violence and to find solutions
- Cannon M.E. Farquhar - chairman
- George E. Mose - chief probation officer
- Carlyle P. Kerr - solicitor
- Lennox O. Pierre - solicitor
- Albert Gomes defends steelband men
- Public should discipline Steelband prejudices,
January 8, Sunday Guardian "Behind the Curtain" column J
- White college students play pan in streets of Port of Spain, later to
become Texaco Dixieland
- Steelbands clash
- Feb 21 Invaders attacks Tokyo (on Carnival Tuesday)
- Mar 2 Casablanca & Invaders meet, agree to bury hatchet...
meeting attacked... bombarded with stones & bottles...
- Mar 6 More steelbands agree to end clashes, meeting at Old
Prison Quarry, more than 500 members and supporters present from
March Hill 60, Invaders, Casablanca, Destination Tokyo, Crusaders,
Merry Maker, All Stars and Desperadoes
- Cannon Farquhar defends steelband men
- link to "dark past of slavery, plus a century of economic
deprivation", March 12, Sunday Guardian
- Steelband Association formed by Lennox Pierre & Carlyle Kerr
- President Sidney Gallop of Crusaders
- 76 bands joined
- banned steelband competition for next 5 years
- poor judging contributing factor to violent clashes between
steelbands
- introduced steelband recital (June)
- 1951
- Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (
TASPO) established
- Lieutenant Griffith of St. Lucia Police Band is musical director
- formed specifically for Festival of Britain
- toured France and United Kingdom for 3 months
- 11 best players from the country, 13 reserves
- Orman "Patsy" Haynes / Casablanca
- "Boots" Davidson / City Syncopators
- Sterling Betancourt / Crossfire
- A. DeLabastide / Chicago
- Dudley Smith / Rising Sun
- Winston "Spree" Simon / Tokyo
- Granville Sealey / Tripoli
- Clive Belgrave / Southern Symphony
- Ellie Mannette / Invaders
- Anthony Williams / Sun Valley
- Sonny Roache
- Theo Stephen / Free French
- Operation Britain - to raise $15,000 for TASPO
- July 6, TASPO departs on San Mateo, Sonny Roache ill, left behind
in Martinique
- September, Winston Spree gets contract to teach pan music at
University of Nigeria & Ghana
- Developments
- 3 drum bass boom
- 2 drum cello coom
- establish complete chromatic range of notes from ping pong to bass
- 1952
- Trinidad Music Association accept steelband men after initial rejection,
Music Festivals no longer off limits
- Bands from south form: Southern Steelbands Association, 25 members
- 1953
- Anthony Williams creates the “SPIDER-WEB” ping pong, referred to as the “fourths and fifths” pan..
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Anthony Williams (right)
displays his spider web pan with
Herman "Rock" Johnson (left)
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- 1957
- George Goddard elected President of Steelband Association (June)
- 12 member band
- Constitution drawn
- 1959
- "Desperadoes" & "San Juan All Stars" clash
1979
- DJ's impact carnival scene both in US and Trinidad
- Panmen boycott Panorama for more money
- Cost of preparing steelbands for panorama $15,000 - $20,000
- Cost of new band $60,000
- No Panorama
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1980
- Panorama appearance fee $5,000
- No Panorama
1981
- Eric Williams dies
- Sonata wins Panorama
1982
- Sonata and Metro wins Panorama
1983
1984
1985
Rudolph Charles dies
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Rudolph Charles famed leader of
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- Sonata wins NY Panorama
1986
- Golden Stars win Panorama
1987
- Panorama winners
- Metro takes 1st place
- Moods places 2nd
- Sonata places 3rd
1988
- Panorama winners
- Sonata takes 1st place
- Moods places 2nd
- Metro places 3rd
1989
- Panorama winners
- Sonata takes 1st place
- Pan Fantasy places 2nd
1990
- Panorama winners
- Metro takes 1st place
- Pan Fantasy places 2nd
- Sonata places 3rd
1991
- Panorama winners
- Metro takes 1st place
- Pan Rebels places 2nd
- Moods places 3rd
1992
- Panorama winners
- Metro takes 1st place
- Despers USA Rebels places 2nd
- Sonata places 3rd
1993
- Panorama winners
- Despers USA takes 1st place
- Metro places 2nd
1994
- Panorama winners
- Despers USA takes 1st place
- Pan Rebels places 2nd
- Moods places 3rd
1995
- Panorama winners
- Despers USA takes 1st place
- Sonata places 2nd
- Pan Rebels places 3rd
1996
- Despers USA wins Panorama
1997
- Despers USA wins Panorama
1998
- Panorama winners
- Despers USA takes 1st place
- Sonata places 2nd
- Pantonic places 3rd
1999
- Panorama winners
- Pantonic USA takes 1st place
- Pan Rebels places 2nd
- Despers USA places 3rd
*Lord Kitchener Dies February 11,
2000
2000
- Panorama winners
- CASYM takes 1st place
- Pantonic places 2nd
- Sonata USA places 3rd
2001
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United States Steelband Association
(USSA) formed
- USSA
holds its first New York Panorama
- 12 bands perform
- Pantonic wins 1st USSA panorama
- Sonatas places 2nd
- Adlib places 3rd
- 1st CD and DVD of New York Panorama
produced by Basement Recordings...
- WIADCA
panorama winners are
- CASYM takes 1st place
- Metro places 2nd
- Women in Steel places 3rd
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The
History of SteelPan 