Performances & Events

Please join us at 7:00 PM CDT on Wednesday, March 31 for the first online concert of our 2021 season, featuring Obe Quarless! Inside Out Steelband will perform alongside KIPP Austin Collegiate Steelband and the McCallum HS Knights of Steel.

This concert will take place over Zoom, and will also be broadcast live to our YouTube channel. If you would like to sit in the virtual audience, please complete and submit the form below, and we will send you the Zoom link in advance of the performance. We will open the virtual waiting room at 6:30PM CDT and begin the performance at 7:00PM.

Many thanks for your continued support of Inside Out Steelband. We look forward to sharing music with you again on March 31!

Please join us at 7:00 PM CDT on Friday, October 30 for an hour-long online concert, presented by ACC Arts and Digital Media! This performance will highlight the versatility of the steelpan, and range from small group performances to full steelband jams. This performance will include premieres of new video collaborations, so you won’t want to miss it!

You can tune into the live stream at the link here, and find more information on the Facebook event. We’re looking forward to sharing this music with you!

Please join us for the third event in our Composer Spotlight series, featuring the music of Alexis C. Lamb. We will present two new videos of Alexis’s pieces for steelpan, and Louis Raymond-Kolker will perform Alexis’s multi-pan solo “Internal Dialogue” live over Zoom. Alexis will join us to talk about each of these pieces and answer audience questions.

This 45-minute concert will be broadcast live over our YouTube channel at 7:30 CDT on September 24, and is 100% free!

Program to include:

Spectrum (2015)
Smokescreen (2020)
Internal Dialogue (2020)

To learn more about Alexis C. Lamb, visit https://alexislamb.com/

On Friday, August 28, join us as we revisit all of our favorite video collaborations from the past few months. Even in quarantine, we’ve been very happy to keep making music with our Inside Out family, and this is the perfect way to celebrate a successful and productive summer!

We will broadcast video performances (including some brand new projects) by Inside Out Steelband, our guest artists, and our friends, and we invite you to join in on the fun.

The concert will be broadcast live to our Inside Out Steelband YouTube channel at 7:30 PM CDT, and archived publicly for those who cannot attend. If you would like to join us on the Zoom meeting, please RSVP below so that we can send you the Zoom link the day of the show.

Please join us for the first event in our Composer Spotlight series, featuring the music of Jonathan Scales. We will present live and pre-recorded performances of three of Jonathan’s compositions for pan, and Jonathan will join us to talk about these pieces and answer audience questions.

This 45-minute concert will be broadcast live over our YouTube channel at 7:30 CDT on July 9, and is 100% free! If you would like to support our ongoing Inside Out programming and outreach efforts, you may make a donation by purchasing a digital ticket at one of our preset price points, or choosing a donation amount that works for you.

Program to include:

The Questions Unanswerable (2006)
Tethervane (2020) – World Premiere
Bubble Buster (2018)

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Join Inside Out Steelband in celebrating our residency with the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, at 7:30pm (CDT) on Friday, June 26. This concert will feature performances by guest artists with close ties to TSBVI: Larkspur Percussion Duo (Lauren Molloy and Louis Raymond-Kolker), Heavy Stars (Lacey Lewis), and The Spinrockers (Mary Rose Bushland and Devin Gutierrez).

This concert will take place over Zoom, and will also be broadcast live to our YouTube channel. If you would like to sit in the virtual audience, please complete and submit the form below, and we will send you the Zoom link in advance of the performance. We will open the virtual waiting room at 7:00PM CDT and begin the performance at 7:30PM.

This event is free and open to anyone to enjoy! If you would like to support our ongoing Inside Out programming and outreach efforts, you may make a donation by purchasing a digital ticket at one of our preset price points, or choosing a donation amount that works for you.

Many thanks for your continued support of Inside Out Steelband. We look forward to sharing music with you again on June 26!

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Join CJ Menge, Louis Raymond-Kolker, and Blue Iron Percussion (Diana Loomer and Morgan Tao) online for an evening of new music! This special program will feature new solos and duets for steelpan and percussion, including works by Menge, Raymond-Kolker, Alexis C. Lamb, Thom Hasenpflug, Machel Montano, and others.

This concert will take place over Zoom, and will also be broadcast live to our YouTube channel. If you would like to sit in the virtual audience, please complete and submit the form below, and we will send you the Zoom link in advance of the performance. We will open the virtual waiting room at 7:00PM CDT and begin the performance at 7:30PM.

This event is free and open to anyone to enjoy! If you would like to support our ongoing Inside Out programming and outreach efforts, you may make a donation by purchasing a digital ticket at one of our preset price points, or choosing a donation amount that works for you.

Many thanks for your continued support of Inside Out Steelband. We look forward to sharing music with you again on May 15!

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