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,  …