Workshop 2012
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Registration Forms:
•PDF Form
•Word Fill-in Form
Stonewall Resort
•7/16-Faculty Showcase
•7/17, 7/18-"Evening at the Festival"
•7/19-Jam session
•7/21-"Festival of Bands"
Components
•Performance Groups
-Intermediate
-Advanced
•Lectures
•Seminars
Faculty
Ellie Mannette
Tom Miller
Andy Narell
Jeff Narell
Festival of Steel 2012
75 Years of Innovation
July 15-21, 2012
Stonewall Resort, Roanoke, WV
Dr. Ellie Mannette, famed steel band innovator, hosts the Festival of Steel each year. The event attracts participants from all across the United States (and beyond) to spend an intensive week immersed in steel band’s performance, education and history.
The Mannette Musical Instruments' Festival of Steel will take place July 15-21, 2012 at the beautiful Stonewall Resort located in Roanoke, West Virginia. Dr. Mannette and his staff look forward to seeing you there! Enrollment is limited and is expected to fill quickly. For more information contact the Workshop Coordinator at Mannette Musical Instruments at (304) 241-5691, or by email at clinics@mannetteinstruments.com.
FESTIVAL of STEEL 2012
A week- long celebration of the steel drum art form.
For more than a decade, Dr. Ellie Mannette, widely regarded as the "Father of the Modern Steel Drum", has been training a team of gifted apprentices in Morgantown. These apprentices are now master craftsman and comprise the staff of Mannette Musical Instruments. They are devoted to crafting the finest steel drum instruments in the industry and continuing the legacy of Ellie Mannette.Each summer, Dr. Mannette and these dedicated colleagues have hosted a summer workshop designed to celebrate the steel drum art form and to provide a venue for enthusiasts, educators and professional players to exchange information.
•How to integrate steel drums within a larger music program?
•Arrangements to performance: what are the differences around the world?
•Science: Research on the material and its effect on the build and tuning on the instrument.
•Video/ Visual: past and present steel drums.
•Religious influences in the steel drum world?
•Starting up your world music program- curriculum, arranging, rehearsals, and performances.
PERFORMANCE
The workshop is a highly performance-oriented experience. Whether you are a professional musician seeking other players of your caliber and a challenge, an educator looking to collect information to better your program and expand your repertoire, or a beginner with no musical background at all, you will find this an incredible experience. World renowned performers, lecturers and clinicians will be leading Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner bands in daily rehearsals, culminating in a performance at the end of the week.
HISTORY
Would you pass up a chance to meet Stradivarius? Shake hands with Einstein? Not many legends are recognized for greatness during their lifetime. Dr. Ellie Mannette is one of the fortunate few. Lectures will cover topics on:
- Steel band’s early history
- The evolution of the various instruments
- Mannette’s personal experiences and observations of steel band’s development in the US and abroad
- Trinidad’s Carnival and Panorama
- Current building and tuning demonstrations with the staff of Mannette Musical Instruments
Did you know that steel drums are the only family of acoustic instruments invented in the twentieth century? Dr. Mannette is responsible for much of the innovation of the family of steel drums, and for taking them to an unparalleled level of tonal sophistication.
EDUCATION
Daily seminars will be led by some of the most well respected and talented steel band directors and performers in the industry. Integral to the week-long immersion in this art form is the provision of additional information in a lecture setting for the music educator as well as the steelband performer.
Topics may include information on:
- Arranging Techniques
- Performance Techniques
- Engine Room fundamentals
- Repertoire
- Fundraising
