A Big Applause for 2008 Pan Festival Sponsors

Bar Harbor Bank and Trust

Reach Performing Arts Center

Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation

Donald Sussman

Thanks also to contributors of refreshments, business services, promotion, and on-site organizing

Blue Hill Co-op Community Market and Cafe

Barncastle Restaurant

Mount Desert Spring Water

Governor's Proclamation for
Steel Band Month, 2008

Blue Hill is hosting the 2008 Pan Festival this spring.

May 2-4, 2008

Program

• Friday May 2 Evening Concert - Reach Center, Deer Isle featuring Steel Sensations Official Website
  Video of Steel Sensations
  
  
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• Saturday May 3 Workshops at the Blue Hill Consolidated School
• Sunday May 4 PanFest - Round Robin Performances at the Blue Hill Consolidated School
• Flyer - Includes Program and Activities (pdf)
• Steelband Festival Poster

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• Press Release (04/11/08) Learn about the events and musicians

Prospective Musicians

• Introduction Letter (pdf)
• Flyer - Includes Program and Activities (pdf)
• Registration form (rtf)
• Registration form (pdf)

Information and Accommodations

• Peninsula Pan / Flash in the Pans / Planet Pan / Rhythm Rockets
• Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce

Pre-game Interviews

• 	Al Abrahamson, President of Peninsula Pan discusses the origins of Pan Music in Blue Hill and the 2008 Pan Festival with interviewer Jim Fisher. (9:50 minute MP3)
  Nigel Chase, Director of Planet Pan and Chair of the 2008 Pan Festival talks with interviewer Cathy Jacobs about Pan Festival events. (10:28 minute MP3) Nigel's compositions performed by Clarion Steel Drum Band Punch We Talkin' About
  	Carl Chase, Maine's father of steel pan music and director of Flash in the Pans joins Jim Fisher on the Detritous Files to talk about making steel pans out of 55 gallon steel drums. (11:06 minutes MP3) Carl's compositions, rehearsal by Flash in the Pans Slippery Slope Whose Blues

Listen here, or tune into "Voices" on WERU 89.9 FM on Tuesday April 15 at 4:00 PM and Saturday April 19 3:00 PM. You can also listen online at www.weru.org!

 

And watch WLBZ Channel 2 Saturday, April 26 at 7:30 PM "207" to see interviews and music by Flash.

For more information, contact:
2008 Pan Festival Chair
Nigel Chase
PO Box 73
Brooksville, Maine 04617
207-326-4025
npkchase@prexar.com