Performances & Events

featuring:
Emily Lemmerman – Guest Tuner, Builder, and Composer
Inside Out Steelband
and the McCallum HS Knights of Steel

We are excited to present our 29th annual Inside Out Steelband Festival on Wednesday, April 22nd, at 7pm!

Inside Out Steelband and McCallum HS Knights of Steel will perform the music of Emily Lemmerman, an internationally-known professional pan builder and tuner. This performance will even include a live pan tuning demonstration!

As a professional pan tuner, Emily Lemmerman has uncommon access to and perspective on the global steelband landscape. She travels to work with bands around the world- not only as a tuner, but also as an educator, clinician, adviser, and performer.  With a formal background in classical music, after a full-time, six-year apprenticeship with Ellie Mannette, and with over 20 years of experience in the field, Emily is one of few people intensively immersed in the broad range of major steelband communities that exist around the world. Emily is a passionate advocate for collaboration and celebration of the diversity that enriches the many successful pan programs that bring joy to communities across the nation. She is very active internationally, working regularly in the Caribbean and Europe. Emily is a charter member of the NSSBE steering committee and serves as Assistant Editor for its newsletter.

This concert will take place at the McCallum High School Arts Center (5600 Sunshine Drive, 78756).

This concert is free, all-ages, and open to the public, so please bring your family and friends for a night of great music!

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

Please join us at 5pm on Saturday, June 6! Inside Out Steelband will perform with two amazing Austin musicians: Akina Adderley and Carolyn Trowbridge.

Despite the nickname, Akina Adderley is much more than “the little woman with the big voice.” A rock/soul/jazz vocalist, songwriter, bandleader, arranger, and educator based in Austin, Texas, Adderley’s music reflects both her modern rock ‘n roll sensibility and her deep jazz roots. Margaret Moser (Austin Chronicle) wrote, “Jazz is in Akina Adderley’s blood, and it flows with a warm mix of old-school soul and R&B.” Akina’s father is acclaimed jazz pianist and arranger Nat Adderley, Jr. (long-time bandleader for Luther Vandross), and her grandfather and granduncle were venerated jazz musicians: cornetist Nat Adderley, Sr. and alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (Miles Davis, Kind of Blue). While their towering musical legacy flows through her, Akina’s artistry is all her own. 

Vibraphonist and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Trowbridge is a vibrant force in Austin’s music scene—as a performer, studio musician, composer, and educator. Hailed by the Austin Chronicle as a “vibraphone sorceress,” she moves fluidly across genres, performing with rock bands, Afrobeat ensembles, avant-garde jazz groups, mainstream vocalists, and classical ensembles. From the US to Australia, her dynamic résumé includes collaborations with Grammy-nominated Black Pumas, Adrian Quesada, Curtis Harding, Graham Reynolds, studio sessions with Stephen Perkins and Mike Portnoy; an appearance with the Grammy-winning choir Conspirare for a PBS special; and an ACL Live performance opening for Snoop Dogg.

A frequent featured artist and longtime educator, Trowbridge has delivered masterclasses across the U.S. and leads and composes for her own neo-exotica inspired quintet. Originally from Alexandria, VA, she grew up overseas in Gabon, the Czech Republic, and Norway before earning music degrees in Percussion Performance from James Madison University and The University of Texas at Austin. Her versatility, creativity, and expressive approach to the vibraphone continue to make her one of Austin’s most in-demand artists.

This concert will take place at The Griffin School (5001 Evans Ave, 78751).

This concert is free, all-ages, and open to the public, so please bring your family and friends for an evening of great music!

This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment.

We are celebrating 25 years of Inside Out Community Steelband with our friends Superfónicos on Sunday, June 29th, at 4:30 pm!

Superfónicos has been stirring up Colombian Funk, Cumbia and Afro-beat since late 2016. Though based in Austin, Texas, most of the members have deep roots in Colombia. Their music not only highlights the country’s Caribbean coastal sounds, but also the celebration of the human spirit,  stories of the displaced, folkloric tales from the countryside, and the reminder to let go and embrace an experience that is more connected to the earth and our ancestors.

This concert will take place in the auditorium at the Griffin School: 5001 Evans Ave, Austin, TX 78751.

This concert is free, all-ages, and open to the public, so please bring your family and friends for a night of great music!

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

featuring:
Dr. Kendall Williams
Gerion Drummerville Williams
Inside Out Steelband
and the McCallum HS Knights of Steel

We are excited to present our 28th annual Inside Out Steelband Festival on Tuesday, April 29th, at 7pm!

Inside Out Steelband and McCallum HS Knights of Steel will perform along with Dr. Kendall Williams and Gerion Drummerville Williams.

Dr. Kendall K. Williams is a composer, steelpan virtuoso, and music educator deeply rooted in the Trinbagonian (Trinidad and Tobago) musical culture. Dr. Williams has a strong commitment to elevating steelpan within the classical and contemporary music spheres, including through composing pieces for prominent events like the Bang on a Can Marathon and collaborating with orchestras, including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, to showcase steelpan’s versatility. He received his doctorate in music composition from Princeton University, and serves as CEO of Pan in Motion, an organization dedicated to steelpan education, advocacy, and performance, and he continues to teach and perform widely across the United States.

Gerion Drummerville Williams is one of the great soca drummers, with numerous credits to his name, and regularly drums for the Shell Invaders Steel Orchestra for Panorama. He played with Inside Out Steelband just last year for our featured concert at NSSBE, and we’re excited to welcome him back to Austin!

This concert will take place at the McCallum High School Arts Center (5600 Sunshine Drive, 78756).

This concert is free, all-ages, and open to the public, so please bring your family and friends for a night of great music!

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

Please join us on Thursday, February 6 at 7pm, as we perform with students from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired! This performance is the culmination of Inside Out’s residency at TSBVI, which is been a long standing tradition for Inside Out Steelband.

This concert will take place in the auditorium in building 602 of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. A campus map is included below. Public parking is available in the lots along 45th Street, in front of the main entrance, by the marquee sign.

Most importantly, this concert is free, family-friendly, and open to the public, so please bring your friends!

This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.