By Stephen Weir
Heck no, don’t trouble with Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Radio in your Canadian pan music repair. As of this month, there’s a brand new on-line “radio” station delivering pan music business free from proper right here in Toronto.
Properly-known pannist Earl LaPierre Jr. has launched “Metal Pan Music Radio”, and though it’s a number of months away from its official launch, the music is already streaming freed from cost to pan followers throughout the nation.
Proper now, it’s wall-to-wall music when listeners go surfing to the station at https://steelpanmusicradio.com/_nowplaying/. The location opens up with the candy sound of metal. The radio web site lists the at present taking part in tracks, together with the artists and their origins and what has already been performed.
Whereas listening to the station on Wednesday, we loved music from Canadian and Caribbean artists, together with his father, the well-known Cayman-based Earl LaPierre Sr., and his Trinidad-based brother Noel. The primary music of the day for the paper was “Morning Dance” carried out by Sean M.
There aren’t any exhibits simply but, however the music is continuous, and because the station’s motto proudly states, that is “The place Metal Pan Music Issues!”
Metal Pan Music Radio is broadcasting from a studio in Earl’s Toronto dwelling. “I’ve a workforce of six. We’re at present nonetheless in beta testing, ensuring the sound high quality is on level,” LaPierre instructed The Caribbean Digicam.
“We are going to (quickly) have exhibits, broadcasters, packages, and personalities. These personalities will probably be primarily based right here in Toronto, Edmonton, Cayman, and Trinidad. The long run is shiny. Our plan is to broadcast wherever there are pan exhibits, concert events, festivals, and panoramas. The sky’s the restrict!”
Along with launching this new on-line radio station, Earl LaPierre Jr. has a protracted historical past because the supervisor of Canada’s oldest steelband, Afropan Steelband, whose legacy speaks for itself. Earl has carried out at a number of main occasions, together with Pan Alive, Toronto Caribbean Carnival, Snowflakes on Metal, Autumn Leaves on Metal, Du Maurier Jazz Pageant, and Pan Jazz.
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