Oberlin Steel
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Oberlin Steel is a steel band based at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Formed around 1980 and known as the Oberlin Can Consortium until 2001, the group plays in the tradition of the great steel bands of Trinidad, but also performs arrangements of salsa, calypso, and jazz as well as original compositions and arrangements by band members. A dance band in the truest sense, Oberlin Steel performs at campus events and in the Oberlin area. After months of rehearsing and performing, the band tours for the week of spring break in late march. Past destinations include Chicago, Boston, New York (the band has played at Avery-Fisher hall of New York’s Lincoln Center), Atlanta, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Miami, Montreal, Ithaca, and Washington DC, among others. Oberlin Steel performs for college and university audiences, nightclubs, restaurants, theaters, train stations, hotels, high schools, elementary schools, airplanes, weddings, stadiums, outdoor festivals and public spaces such as central park in New York City and the Lincoln memorial in DC. The band usually has twelve to sixteen members, including tenor, double-tenor, seconds, cello, quads, and bass pan players, plus auxiliary percussionists and a set drummer.
[edit] Instrumentation
Although the instrumentation changes from year to year, here is the typical configuration.
5 Tenor pans</br> 2 Double-Tenor pans</br> 3 Double-Second pans</br> 2 Cellos</br> 1 Quadrophonic</br> 1 Tenor-Bass pan</br> 1 6-Bass pan</br> 1 Drum set</br> Auxiliary percussion</br>
[edit] Discography
Oberlin Steel's seven albums are as follows:
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[edit] Song samples
The following samples are from Oberlin Steel's most recent CD Don't Panic!
