Taking Your Music to the World
The journey started way back as a child in the early 1970s when my father would take my brother and me to the Dimanche Gras’ show every year at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain. In those years the panorama champions, the calypso king and the King and Queen of bands were all decided on carnival Sunday night. My first opportunity to actually play pan came in 1978 at the Tunapuna Roman Catholic Church Youth Group, which offered as one of its youth initiatives a performing steel orchestra. Senior members of the Youth Group also played with Orange Grove Pan Symphony which was lead then by the prolific Aldwyn ‘Madman’ Jordan. So in 1979 I played in my first panorama competition with the Orange Pan Symphony. The band played a song entitled ‘War’ which was sung by calypsonian Edwin ‘Crazy’ Ayoung and arranged by Aldwyn ‘Madman’ Jordan. So therefore, it stands to reason that having been introduced to pan in the house of God who then ensured that the very next year my musical baptism, would involve playing a ‘War’ song, which was sung by a ‘Crazy’ man and arranged by a ‘Madman’. I am certain therefore, that with such an ironic beginning something special had to develop
So fast track to the present where after 30 odd years of significant associations with steelbands listed below as player and or arranger:
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1. The St. Augustine Secondary School Steel Orchestra
2. Birdsong
3. Pamberi
4. Simple Song
5. High Steel
6. Tunapuna All Stars
7. Starlift
8. Sforzata
9. The Graduates
10. Pan Stereonettes
11. Five Rivers Modern Symphony
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Symphony Countries like:
1. British Virgin Islands (BVI)
2. St. Thomas (USVI)
A new chapter has begun.
The website
Steelpanscores.com, a subsidiary of Perfect Cadence Ltd is located in Trinidad & Tobago. It is the country’s only internet-based sheet music retailer and publisher. We are new and although our present offerings are very limited, we expect to grow quickly to realize our ultimate goal in the not too distant future, to be the world’s largest publisher and retailer of steelpan music. Incorporated in April 2008, Perfect Cadence Ltd, my vision is a music publishing entity and Steelpanscores.com is the vehicle to be used to take the music of Trinidad & Tobago to the world. Backed by a cadre of personnel who are highly skilled, specialize in training steelpan tutors, arranging, music notation (scoring), music publishing, and local and global distribution for Steelband clients, Perfect Cadence Ltd and Steelpanscores.com are therefore ideally poised to provide the global steelband industry with the services needed.
Mark