MERIDIAN —
From calypso to popular to classical to jazz, Meridian Community College’s Arts & Letters Series concert goers are in for more than a tropical treat when SoMiSPO comes to the McCain Theater on Tuesday.
This University of Southern Mississippi steel pan orchestra concert will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, adults, $5, students. MCC faculty and staff members are admitted free with their ID card.
Currently a 30-member band, SoMiSPO was founded by Dr. John Wooten as a six piece ensemble, which included a drum set and percussion. Since its 1994 beginnings, the group has enlarged to feature several different voices in the steel band instrumentation family, including lead pans, double tenors, double seconds, guitar pans, cello pans, tenor bass pans, bass pans, drum set and various percussion instruments known as the “Engine Room.”
In 2005, SoMiSPO recorded a CD with renowned steel pan artist Andy Narell.
Most of SoMiSPO’s instruments were created and tuned by Dr. Ellie Mannette, who is known as the “Father of the Steel Drum.” Mannette built the first metal instrument from a 55 gallon drum in 1946 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The steel drum is the only chromatic acoustical instrument created in the 20th century.
For ticket information, contact Leia Hill, Arts & Letters Series coordinator, at (601) 484-8696.
Local News
Related Photos
-
Dr. John Wooten, founder and director of SoMiSPO. Submitted photo
Discussion
SoMiSPO brings steel drum rhythms to MCC
- Local News
-
- Partnership in place for safety blitz
-
Keeping time with the Disabled American Veterans
When you are responsible for transporting area veterans to Jackson to meet their medical appointments, you better be on time.
-
Morning update for, Friday, May 25, 2012
-
Celebrating Jimmie
- Feed your mind at Nexus Hero Brown Bag Lunch
-
Man faces kidnapping charges
-
Classroom Visit
-
The Drought Is Over
All Mason Irby was hoping for was to find a way on base.
The Southeast Lauderdale sophomore did that and so much more. Irby's single with two outs in the seventh inning broke a tie, lifting the Tigers to a 6-3 MHSAA Class 3A state championship win at Smith-Wills Stadium on Wednesday, and handing Southeast (32-7) its first title since 1966. -
Ronald McDonald House charity event scheduled
A 54-hole golf tournament is coming to Briarwood Country Club on June 26-29. The Emerald Coast Golf Tour will hold their Pro-Am Classic here in Meridian, but in addition to this all proceeds will go to a great cause – The Ronald McDonald House.
-
UBS in urgent need of blood
Due to unforeseen circumstances this month, United Blood Services has had some drives cancel, leaving the local hospitals at a critical shortage of blood.
- More Local News Headlines
Jimmy Carter Endorses Egypt's Election Results
Biden Addresses West Point Graduating Class
Dozens of Children Killed in New Syria Attack
Raw Video: Activists Allege Massacre in Syria
NJ Man Charged With Murder in Death of Patz
Support, Fun for Kids of Fallen Soldiers at Camp
Fugitive Penguin Caught, Returned to Aquarium
50 Years Later, Underground Fire Still Burning
Light Show Transforms Sydney Opera House
Raw Video: Unruly Passenger Restrained in Miami
Raw Video: Robber Uses Drive-thru Window
Raw Video: Dragon Arrives at Space Station
Calif.'s Coronado Named Nation's Best Beach
CEO Salaries Become Sore Issue in Labor Disputes
Raw Video: Fight Erupts in Ukrainian Parliament
Texan Ranchers Remain Wary of Drought
Raw Video: Soldiers Plant Flags at Arlington
Police: Man Arrested in Etan Patz Disappearance
NYC Protests: the Revolution Will Be Scripted
Chicago U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald Resigns
