Band�� Info

��� Daddy Cha-Cha is an innovative music duo consisting of musicians Shawn Dunn and Kathy Dunn. They perform all of their music on steel drums, or "pans".� They formed the group in the summer of 2000 and played for over a year in the Huntington, WV - Ashland, KY area.� In the summer of 2001 they brought the fun north, and are playing out of the Morgantown-Fairmont-Clarksburg, WV area.
���� Their instrumental selections are guaranteed to bring a smile to everyone, and their song list ranges from island music to pop, and everything from soothing melodies to raucous socas that will get you in a dancing mood!
���� Shawn and Kathy have many years of playing experience on the pans.� Shawn started one the first high school steel drum bands in Ohio, South Point Steel, at South Point High School in 1996.� He has worked with Ellie Mannette, a Trinidad native known as the "father of the steel drum", and performed with such well-known steel drum artists as Tom Miller, Jeff Narell, Ray Holman, and Ken "Professor" Philmore.� Shawn is currently the band director at Fairmont Senior High School.� Kathy also has a degree in music and teaches privately.
���� Daddy Cha-Cha performs using two sets of pans: a lead pan and a set of double seconds.� They also use midi background tracks run through an amplifier system.� All background tracks are custom arranged and provide the backing of bass, drums, etc.� With the steel pans being acoustic instruments, and the addition of amplified backing tracks, the group is able to play softly enough to be comfortable in a smaller room, or they can turn up the volume to fill a much larger or noisier environment.� They are able to perform indoors or outdoors, for practically any type of occasion.

Daddy Cha-Cha performs on pans built by Merlin Gill, and they come directly from Trinidad, the birthplace of pan. Click Here to visit the webpage for Gill's Steelpan Shop.