In the Caribbean a steel drum is called a “pan” and to party is to “leggo”. Get ready to Pan Leggo!! Pan Leggo is skillfully-crafted tropical music for your wedding, anniversary, corporate function, graduation, birthday party, or any other special event you are planning.
After 27 years-AND COUNTING-of playing events, Ian knows how to handle every setting. Ian’s solo performances combine the steel drum’s beautiful, characteristic Caribbean sounds with masterful vocals in Spanish and English and his skilled playing on ukulele, electronic marimba, unique DJ elements and percussion.
Ian’s performances offer highly interactive music and can provide everything from unobtrusive background music to featured stage entertainment with lots of audience interaction through singing, body percussion, dance lessons, conga lines and more! Ian Dobson’s Pan Leggo is available as a solo, duo, trio, and larger formats.
Solo (Most Popular)
Ian performs all solos, typically playing steel drum(s), ukulele, electronic marimba, percussion, and singing in English/Spanish/Portuguese. After playing at events for 20 years he knows how to make his solo performance fit really well in almost all situations. The potential special advantages of the solo configuration are:
- It's a completely unique steel drum, ukulele, marimba, percussion, DJ experience
- It’s our best budget option.
- If you want background music that is a mixture of all acoustic and acoustic/electric.
- If you have very limited space available for musicians.
- If you want a dance party mixing live acoustic music making with DJ technology.
- If you want a library, school, or other youth-oriented stage show.
- If you want an affordable family-friendly adult-oriented stage show for a retirement facility, library, theater, etc.
- If you want very low volume music.
A slimmed-down versions of the solo is also available that offer some additional savings. This includes a small setup of steel drum, ukulele and vocals. This setup is only recommended for certain situations, such as background music, shorter performances of 60 to 90 minutes, etc. Please discuss these options with Ian if you are interested.
Duo
Like the solo, the duo works really well in almost all situations. The potential special advantages of the duo configuration are:
- More instruments on stage, usually including an added pair of steel drums and/or, if space and technical considerations permit, an acoustic marimba. For a budget Latin dance party a conga player can substitute for the steel drum/marimba player.
- The ability to play all acoustic background music for several hours.
- A completely unique steel drum, ukulele, marimba, percussion, DJ experience.
- It's a good budget option.
- If you have limited space available for musicians.
- If you want a dance party with mixing DJ technology with live music making and several musicians on stage.
- If you want very very low volume music.
Trio
Like the solo, the trio works really well in almost all situations. The potential special advantages of the trio configuration are:
- It's our best budget option for a Latin dance party.
- More instruments on stage, usually including congas/percussion and an added pair of steel drums and/or an acoustic marimba.
- The ability to play all acoustic background music for several hours with more rhythmic drive than the duo.
- A completely unique steel drum, ukulele, marimba, percussion, DJ experience.
- If you want very low volume music.
Larger Groups
The extended configurations work really well in many situations. They don’t work so well if you want extremely low volume music, have a limited budget, and/or have very limited space for the band to set up. The potential special advantages of the extended configurations are:
- If you want an all live band with minimal tracks or looping.
- If you want more musicians and instruments on stage for visual interest. A quartet typically includes a steel drum player, a steel drum and/or marimba player, an electric bass player, and a drum set player. With 5 to 7 musicians we might add congas/percussion, more vocals, horn, etc. The
- Particular configuration will be tailored somewhat to your event.
- If you are presenting a large event with full sound reinforcement and sound engineer.
- If you want an all-live Latin dance party 5-7 musicians are ideal configurations.
- If you want low-volume all-live background music that has more rhythmic drive and a fuller sound than the all-acoustic trio. We can play softly even with the full band, just not quite as softly as the solo/duo/trio. 4 musicians is the best budget option for this.
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