Hello again everyone, it’s hard to believe we are in December again and the concert season is upon us here at Leon!  The Steel Band will be performing this Sunday, December 4th for our “End-of-Semester” show.

There will be 2 shows, 4pm and 7pm, each free and open to the public here at Leon’s Auditorium.  The 4pm show will feature our Pandemonium and Steel Crazy community bands and our Beginner student bands.  the 7pm show will include Pans de Leon community band, and our Advanced level students!  Each show should last 1.5 hrs.

See you there!!!

CASCADE PARK SHOW!

Tonight, April 21st, at 7pm we will be teaming up with FSU’s steel band, Mas ‘n’ Steel for a night of great steel pan in Tallahassee’s beautiful Cascades Park.  The show is FREE and OPEN to the public, we hope you enjoy the show.

Click below for tonight’s program:

Cascades 16 Program

It’s hard to believe but we are closing in on another “concert season”!  We’ve accomplished much this year and it’s time to show off all the great work of the students and make some serious music!!!

Be sure to check out our Jouvet, Bacchanal, and Canboulay bands, as we team up with FSU’s “Mas ‘n’ Steel” for an evening of music under the stars!  Thursday, April 21st, at 7pm we’ll be at Cascades Park Amphitheater!  Admission is FREE so come out and bring your friends!

You can come see our Bacchanal Band at Klemen Plaza on May 7th – time is around Noon, but exact time is TBA, we are performing as park of a Leon County Schools Arts Showcase!

Finally, you can see ALL our bands at the Spring Show!  Sunday, May 15th, we’ll have our End of Semester shows in Leon’s Auditorium.  Beginning Bands at 4pm and Advanced Bands at 7pm.  FREE and open to the public.

See you there!

Lion Steel returned from the Virginia International PanFest with the GRAND CHAMPION award! Check out the excellent news story penned by superstar parent, Carmy Greenwood:

Lion Steel featured in Tallahassee Democrat

THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!

Please come check us out for our final shows of the school year. Tonight at 4pm the first-year bands and our adult bands will entertain and at 7pm some of our most talented students will show it off together one more time.

Both shows are FREE, in Leon’s Auditorium and will be approximately 1.5 hours, The advanced bands will be featuring music from Jackson 5, Passion Pit, Aerosmith, Kelly Clarkson, ELO, Kansas, Youngblood Brass Band, Mozart and many more!!!

TONIGHT’S CONCERT PROGRAMS:
4pm Program
7pm Program

Congratulations are due to the Leon high school steel bands! Over the weekend they traveled to Virginia Beach for a national competition. The bands were judged by a panel of the foremost experts on steel band from the US and Trinidad. Bacchanal earned a score of 89.33 setting new personal bests for this group, while Canboulay band received a score of 96.33 (out of 100), and for the third time in school history, earned the top score of the entire day and was awarded the GRAND CHAMPION honor! CONGRATULATIONS LION STEEL!

What a show!!! The weather turned out beautiful and we were so happy to finally take the stage at Tallahassee’s new outdoor amphitheater in the park.

I hope you have been checking back in the dropbox link I posted below.  I’ve been adding photos each day… well today I just found a short clip of our band on youtube!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDcw9VxJYs  (I’m in the back right somewhere near the drumset.)

We are gearing up to move the band to Port of Spain on Sunday for the big performance!!!

Keep visiting the dropbox for more pictures and stuff!