Pan in the Great Lakes region

My friend Elizabeth and I had a conference call with someone starting their first steel pan festival. His name is Matt Potts, the owner of the Steel Pan Store. He had attended the Virginia Beach event on the east coast. Matt and another steel pan player decided that they needed something in their part of the U.S. (Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana) to have a similar event.

Right away listenting to Matt on the call, we could sense his excitement. The event is the Great Lakes Steelpan Festival. We are so excited for him. His enthusiasm is certainly contagious. He was more than willing to share his lessons learned in this his first year of the event. This helped us tremendously. We will certainly keep in touch with him as we continue figuring out if we can do something of this scale in our area. In the meantime, check out his site. His event and store are top drawer stuff.