Reflecting on Ellie Mannette with those who loved him dearly.

I first heard it 19 years ago. And I heard it again a few weeks ago. And it was more amazing now, than then.Yes, it was in Summer 2000 at the workshop in Morgantown, West Virginia where I first heard a full steel orchestra of Ellie Mannette’s steel pans. Over the years, this sound had slipped from the front of my memory.But at his memorial concert in Morgantown this past July 12th,  …