Silver Springs Community Center - October 29, 2005

Wish Upon A Star Gala - October 22, 2005

Earl's - Dalhousie - June 24, 2005

Nathan's Resturant and Bar - June 02, 2005

Mount Royal College - May 27, 2005

Pinebrook Golf and Country Club - Oct 23, 2004

Barbados - February 2004

This is an article printed in a local newspaper during our visit: The Barbados Advocate

In the beginning there was... Ann

Our Musical Director, Ann Jamieson first began playing the steel drums/pans back in 1967 when her elementary school back in New Brunswick decided to start a band. After her parents began wintering in Barbados, Ann was given additional exposure to this upbeat Caribbean music and by 1972 she made her first island debut. It has been mentioned on more than one occasion that Ann was the first female to ever play with a professional band in Barbados. Originally, being in a steel band was compared with being in a "gang" and was frowned upon particularly for a woman. Not to be discouraged red-haired Ann, known as "Ginger" by the local Bajans, continued with her dedication to the pans.

By 1978 Ann and her husband Hal, moved to Calgary both as professionals in the oil and gas industry and in 1984 Ann decided to start her own youth band promoting positive atmosphere and encouraging kids to stay in school and avoiding the perils of adolescence. Over the years some of these individuals (a few of who originally stood literally on milk crates in order to reach their pans) had left the band to go off to post secondary school only to return years later after graduating. Once again they had returned to trill, strum, run or beat out that all familiar sound of the steel pans. Today the band consists of twenty members ranging in age from their late teens to their early sixties as well as coming from diverse backgrounds but we all share a common denominator, the love of the steel drums.