Pan Jazz in de Yard Reloaded, Tobago, TnT, April 23 & 24 (updated with Robbie Greenidge bio)

 

update 3 on April 20, 2008 

  

Pan Jazz in de Yard reloads again for a second year in the fourth week of this month.  The event, which comes off on Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24 is a welcome antidote to the anti-Jazz venom of the Plymouth Jazz Festival. 

Pan Jazz in de Yard, organized by Pan Trinbago, a Trinidad and Tobago non-profit “dedicated to the promotion and development of the steelpan and pannists worldwide,” will showcase the country’s top exponents of pan Jazz along with a roster of international stars.

RBtt Redemption Sound Setters will be the hosts for the two-day activity at their name sake Pan Theatre in Montgomery, Tobago to place a spotlight squarely on Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument in a Jazz setting, according to Angela A. Fox in Pan Trinbago’s “Pan News.”

We here at the Collective will shine the Jazz light on the 14 acts who are set to take the stage on April 23 and 24.

The pan line-up will be headed by the “Paganini of the steelpan” Liam Teague, the brightest steelpan soloist in Jazz Rudy ‘Two Left’ Smith, the leading figure in Pan Jazz Annise Hadeed, Ken ‘Professor Philmore, Clyde ‘Lightning’ George & the Steel n’ Jazz Quartet and NFM Pantasy.

The Jazz playbill are Jazz exponents Mavis John, Clive Zanda, Marilyn Williams, Carlton Zanda, John Arnold & Kariwak Players, Caribbean inXS, Kalabash, Earl Brooks, Darren Sheppard and Tony ‘Pan Jumbie’ Williams.

The act by act line up for Pan Jazz in de Yard 2008 is as follows:

Wednesday 23 April

   
1. Len “Boogsie” Sharpe
2. RBTT Redemption Sound Setters

   
3. Robbie Greenidge
4. Tony “Pan Jumbie” Williams
5. Darren Sheppard
6. Annise Hadeed
7. Caribbean inXS
8. John Arnold & Kariwak Players

Thursday 24 April
1. RBTT Redemption Sound Setters
2. Ken “Professor” Philmore
3. Robbie “Two left” Smith
4. Marilyn Williams
5. Liam Teague
6. Clive Zander
7. Duvonne Stewart