PANschool

Panschool has been offering steelpan/steelband workshops and classes since early 2006 after commissioning Lennox Jordan, a Trinidadian steelpan maker, to make us a full range of instruments.
Our first engagement was at Sanderson SHS in Darwin, where Sharon and I did a 3 week residency aimed at re-engaging students with a high record of truancy. Our programme of daily workshops proved very popular and more than achieved its goal.
Since that time, PANschool has been running one-off workshops for corporate clients, primary and secondary schools and at various festivals throughout SE Qld. as well as some incursions into Townsville, Cairns and even Melbourne and Canberra.
As well as the one-off workshops, we have run a series of regular, on-going classes within our local region - the Sunshine Coast - and have been offering an after-school programme at St. Andrews Anglican College, Peregian Springs, since May 2012. After less than a year of playing, the St. Andrews students were good enough to participate at the first Australian Steelband Festival.(https://www.facebook.com/AustralianSteelbandFestival)
We are now setting our sights on taking the St Andrews Steelband to the 2nd Australian Steelband Festival - PANZfest (https://www.facebook.com/panzfest2015) in Oct 2015.