Toronto, Ontario M6R 1W5
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The Pan Piper | |
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| 1947 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario M6R 1W5 |
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| Ph: (416)538-4116 or (416)858-6934 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hameed Shaqq, known as The Pan Piper, is an innovative, versatile, and talented steel pan musician and composer whose repertoire includes jazz, blues, classical, pop, calypso, and liturgical music. Shaqq works primarily as a solo pan artist, often backed up by his own drum machine and bass programming, and pre-recorded dub tracks. As well, his group The Pan Piper Ensemble incorporates a variety of string, wind, and percussion instruments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Pan Piper's 16-track CD, Planet Pan, and his audio-cassette, Life on the Line, are currently available. He is also the writer/arranger of Under the Mango Tree: A Caribbean Cultural M�l�e, From Skin to Steel, and Pan Celsius a celebration of Caribbean music and dance which he produced in Toronto. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On January7, 2000, he was featured in alive half-hour segment of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national program This Morning (CBC Radio One). Shaqq hails from Trinidad and Tobago where he was trained by steel pan veterans and played in numerous bands, including the award-winning Coca Cola Silver Stars, the Shell Invaders, and the Solo Harmonites. Between 1972 and 1975, Shaqq toured Europe with the Solo Harmonites, thrilling audiences at such events as the World Fair in Zurich (1972) and the Music Festival of Spain (1975). Subsequently, Shaqq toured California with the Solo Harmonites in 1976-77. Between international engagements, the band toured various Caribbean nations. Since becoming a Toronto resident in 1978, Shaqq has entertained and educated Canadian audiences, playing his steel pan in night clubs, schools, community centres, libraries, and parks, not to mention his busking for commuters on the Toronto Transit Commision. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The universal appeal to Shaqq's pan music is evident in the wide variety of his clients, who include the Beaches Jazz Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Delta Chelsea Inn, Westin Hilton Hotel, Red Lobster Restaurants, Taylor-Tarpay Advertising, the Toronto Tourism Awards, the Alzheimer Society for Metro Toronto, IBM, CNE, Scott's House, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Sleepy Hallows Golf Club, Devil's Pulpit Golf Club, Lion's Head, Cedarbrae Golf Club, Ontario Black History Society, Royal Canadian Commonwealth Society, Flamboro Race Track, Mohawk Race Track, and Children's Aid Society. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In Canada, Shaqq has played with several bands, including Pan Fantasy, AfroPan, Jumbie Zabuka, Kevin Cooke aslo Brent Titcomb. His recordings include his own solo steel pan arrangements, as well as orchestrations with other musicians. His television and radio appearances include programs on TV Ontario, CITY TV, Rogers Cable, Maclean-Hunter Cable, Fairchild TV, CBC Radio Canada, CBC Radio One, CFRC FM in Kingston, CKVR (the New VR), and CHRY FM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Since 1986, in addition to pursuing his career in music, Shaqq has undertaken part-time studies at the University of Toronto, specializing in socio-cultural anthropology and aiming for a Bachelor of Arts degree. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In his quest to promote the world's youngest instrument, Shaqq has been teaching steel pan music and composition to students in the elementary and secondary schools of Toronto, North York, Scarborough, and Etobicoke. He is a regular teacher at various summer camps in Ontario. He has also given a steel pan workshop for the music store Long & McQuade of Toronto. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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