Fenlands 1st Festival of Soul – Sunday 19th June 2011
April 28th, 201170’s Disco & Funk Night
April 28th, 2011Disco & Funk Night
Holiday Inn, Peterborough West – Friday 20th May 2011
DJ’s Steve Allen, Eddie ‘Theodore Supafly’ Nash & the Barrie John Roadshow Read the rest of this entry »
Cloud Nine
April 4th, 2011Cloud Nine
Promoted by Peterborough DJ Steve Allen Cloud Nine Club opened Saturday 27th September 1969
A Short History of The Steel Drum – Caribbean Steelbands from Steve Allen Entertainments
June 6th, 2010A short history of the shiny drum
How discarded oil barrels evolved into a global musical
tradition
By David Mangurian, Laventille, Trinidad
(with edits by Steve Allen, of Steve Allen Entertainments)
There are not many working-class neighborhoods that can claim to have produced an original musical instrument recognized around the world. But Laventille, a hilly, low-income suburb just east of commercial Port of Spain, Trinidad, justly prides itself in being the birthplace of one of the most popular musical instruments created during the 20th century–the steel drum or “pan,” as it is more correctly called.