Arts Share to bring PanAmerican Steel Band on Iowa tour

Group will travel more than 1,000 miles in a week
Monday, May 2, 2016

Each year following spring semester finals, School of Music Professor Dan Moore takes his percussion students on a week-long tour throughout the state for the PanAmerican Steel Band tour, sponsored by Arts Share.

In 2016, they will tour May 14 - 20, performing for schools, community organizations, and formal venues in Marshalltown, Burt, Forest City, Winfield, Davenport, Eldridge, Burlington, Oxford, Monticello, Cedar Rapids, and North Liberty.  The 18-member ensemble will travel over 1,000 miles to share their talents with the rest of the state.

The band has two CDs to their credit: everywhereCalypso and Noise Brigade. Their music ranges from folk and popular styles to the most challenging new music for pans by composers such as Ray Holman and Andy Narell. The band has performed with pan artists Mat Britain, Liam Teague, John Wooton, and Ray Holman. 

Arts Share is a program of the UI Office of Outreach & Engagement.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.