Brad Shores grew up in Goodland, Kansas and got his BA in Music Education at Fort Hays State University in 1983.  After teaching the Argonne Rebels Drum and Bugle Corps for a year, he moved to Phoenix to work in the Paradise Valley School District.  While in Phoenix, he discovered the pan and began working around town as a steel drum musician.  After moving back to Kansas in 1989, Brad began an 11 year term as Band instructor at Nickerson High School and also started the family band , “Tropical Shores Steel Drum Band” as well as the first high school steel drum band in Kansas.  He also started the first WGI drum line in Kansas called “Rebel Drums” from 1997-2000.

He currently is head band instructor at Haven High School and teaches steel drum band, guitar, band, jazz band and marching band.  He serves as a clinician judge and arranger for many types of groups in and around Kansas.

Jesse Ayers has had his music performed in Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and over 85 U.S. cities, and has twice had his music selected by the International Society of Contemporary Music to represent the United States at the prestigious World Music Days festival (Slovenia 2003 and Warsaw 1992).

His more important works explore the interaction between the spiritual and natural worlds and the redemptive intervention of God in the affairs of the human race....

This collection of 10 original easy tunes by Brad Shores is perfect for the beginning steel drum player or giging musician.  The songs have been taylor made to help students learn where the notes are while playing very fun tunes.  There is a variety of styles, keys, and diffictulty to.....

• White Sands
• Trini Time
• Island Jump
• Hot Sauce Samba
• Sue's Blues
• Going Coastal
• 3 Note Samba
• Cool Waters
• Sunrise Jam
• Baja
  Bonus Tracks:
• Add One
• Just Now
• Something Samba

This collection of 10 original tunes includes various styles such as Bossas, Cha Chas, Socas, and Sambas in a variety of keys. The songs are fun to play and range in difficulty from easy to medium advanced so players can advance in skill level.....

• Corel Reef Song
• Light Footin
• Island Echo
• Samba Latino
• Once Again
• Cha Cha For Pan
• Socalypso
• Steelin The Blues
• Dance for a Cool Breeze
• Walk in the Park

Difficulty: Medium (great for high school and college steel bands)

A fun chart for both the band and the audience. Mark O'Brien has a winner with this arrangement!

Soca Hits 1990 is a collection of tunes composed by the creative writers from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as internationally.  This books charts include,

• "Bad Hugo" by David Rudder
• "Breakdown" by Len "Boogsie" Sharpe
• "Caribbean Woman" by Errol "Bally" Ballantyne
• "Different Strokes" (Jam Out) by Gregory "GB" Ballantyne
• "No, No, We Eh Going Home" by Christopher "Tambu" Herbert
• "Pan By Storm" by Ken "Professor" Philmore
• "Pan In Mih System" by Ray Holman
• "Soca Pan Tuner" by Winsford Devines
• "The Iron Man" by Aldwyn "Lord Kitchener" Roberts
• "Total Disorder" by Kelvin "Duke" Pope
• "Use Your Head" by Johnson "Johnny" King 

You can purchase the entire fake book, or below are the individual charts from the book for sale. Enjoy! Alvin C. Daniell.

Soca Hits 1991 is a collection of tunes composed by the creative writers from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as internationally.  This books charts include,

• "1st In De Party" by Machel Mantano
• "Black Man Feeling To Party" by "Black Stalin" Calliste
• "Dollar" by Colin Lucas
• "Fire Fire (Calypso Coup)" by Errol "Bally" Ballantyne
• "Get Something and Wave" by Austin "Superblue" Lyons
• "Pan Dingolay" by Alwyn "Lord Kitchener" Roberts
• "Party On Fire (Jump)" by Winston "Gypsy" Peters
• "Rant and Rave" by Christopher "Tambu" Herbert
• "Sweet Pan" by Tony Barclay
• "This Melody Sweet" by Winsford Devines
• "Wine Yuh Waist" by Jeff "Prince Unique" Thomas

You can purchase the entire fake book, or below are the individual charts from the book for sale. Enjoy! Alvin C. Daniell.

Bradford Ralston is a dynamic young composer with a diverse background in percussion performance and music composition.  While earning a Bachelor of Music degree in music composition and theory from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, he studied composition with renowned classical composers such as Dr. Michael Kurek and Dr. Stan Link.

His experience in percussion performance is marked by two national tours playing snare with the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, and four years as an active member in the Vanderbilt Steel Drum Band under the direction of Mat Britain, in addition to numerous performances with the Blair Percussion Ensemble and various other ensembles at the Blair School of Music.  He has studied percussion and jazz drumset with distinguished drummers and percussionists such as Bill Wiggins, John R. Beck, Michael Holland, Tommy Giampietro, and Brian Tinkle, and has taught drums and percussion lessons at the W. O. Smith School of Music in Nashville, TN, as well as privately in Winston-Salem, NC.

Bradford’s background as a drumset player and a drum corps snare drummer is a persistent influence in his classical works, which are rich with rhythmic complexity, energy, and an insistence on grooving.  His works for steel pan band introduce a unique stylistic approach to the ensemble, combining classical and modern percussion ensemble writing techniques with the accessibility and excitement offered by steel drums.

Garrett Sanborne has been the Director of Percussion at Abilene High School since 2001.  He directs the Drumline, Percussion Ensembles, and the newly formed Steel Band.  He also teaches the beginner percussion classes at Lincoln, Mann, and Franklin Middle Schools.  He performs with the Abilene Philharmonic, plays drumset for AHS musicals, and plays steel drums in his spare time.

Mr. Sanborne is originally from West Chester, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.  He holds two degrees in Percussion Performance: a Bachelor of Music from the University of Delaware in 1997 and a Master's of Music from the University of Akron , Ohio in 1999.  He recently received his Music Education Certification from McMurry University.

In 1996, Mr. Sanborne performed across the country on tour with the World Champion Drum Corps Star of Indiana and "Brass Theater III," the group which has evolved into the Broadway sensation Blast!  He was a member of the University of Akron Steel Drum Band, whose 1999 compact disc recording, "Live at E. J. Thomas Hall," was nominated for a Grammy.

Mr. Sanborne has been teaching percussion since 1994, and has taught throughout Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Texas.  His areas of expertise include marching percussion, drumset, and steel drums.  He has also written dozens of arrangements for marching percussion, steel band, and mallet ensemble, for both high school and college ensembles.

Joe Moxon (MM 1998 University of Akron, BM 1996 Miami University) resides in Akron, OH where he free lances and teaches private lessons.  His steel drum band, 7 Mile Isle, performs frequently throughout the year and their CD entitled Just Now features some of his compositions.

Joshua R. Quillen has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in groups all over the country, including international performances in Trinidad and Tobago. He frequently works with steel drum bands as a clinician/educator and currently serves as the artistic director of the steel band program at New York University. He has commissioned and premiered nearly a dozen new works for the instrument, and recently presented a concert of all new works for pan at the British Art Gallery in late November. Well versed in marimba and multiple-percussion, he has performed at such events as Music on the Edge at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburg, PA, and the Look and Listen Festival in New York City. He is currently a student of Robert Van Sice at Yale University.

Born to an Indian family settled in Port Louis, Guadeloupe and La Réunion, Laurent Lalsingué started playing the pan at the tender age of four. He belongs to the “panatics family”, mystics of the unique instrument who believe that nothing is more beautiful than a perfectly sounding pan. This virtuoso instrumentalist is able to interpret bach and Pastorius in addition to traditional steel pan music.

Laurent’s efforts to acquire musical perfection stretch also to the violin where he earned the First Prize of the Music Academy with respect to the instrument. Furthermore, he is the first French musician to obtain a steel pan Jazz Diploma. He studied steelband arrangment with his father & Rudy Smith and even furthered his knowledge of the instrument by studying pan tuning with Lincoln Noel, Darren Dyke, Clifford Alfred.

Laurent has been teaching at Calypsociation, a steel pan music school in Paris, France since 1998.

Among those whom Lalsingué has performed with are reknown panists Andy Narell, ,Rudy smith, Calypsociation; Arrogante venganza para Jaco.P ; Les Alizés, Desperadoes, Glissando , Andy Narell steelband PROJECT.

He has also played with CIIJ (Caraib to Jazz whith gregory louis,Jonathan Jurion,Régis Thérèse),Miriam Makeba, Paco Séry, Eddy Louiss, Bob Sinclar, The Wailers, Michel Alibo,Mario Canonge,Thierry Fanfant,Thierry Vaton, Bago, Jack Schwarz-bart,Hervé Gourdikian,Daniel Huck,Davy Honet,Gang H, Hervé Laval,Claude Vamur,David Patrois,Rheda Samba,Mohktar Samba, Weuz Kelly,Alexandre Desplats, Jean-jacques Elangué, Fayadub, Unlogistic,...

With over twenty-fours years of playing and making music, Laurent finally completed his debut album “Yon” (meaning “the First One” in Creole). He takes kompa, biguine mazurka and calypso, which comprise the music of his French ‘West Indian roots, and blends them with more contemporary funk and soul music to create his musical compositions. “Yon” promises to to take listeners to newfound musical ground, where the vibrant diasporic influences ingested by Lalsingue over the years come together, deliciously dressing the centrepiece of the pan.