Hall of Fame 2013

by Jeannine Remy Clifford Alexis has come to represent quality and innovation for steelpan builders, tuners, educators, performers, and aficionados. He is known the world over as a steelpan builder/tuner of the highest echelon, a skilled performer, a creative composer and arranger, and one with a natural ability to teach and inspire students from all…

by Rick Mattingly Ask those who have studied with Sal Rabbio, or ever heard him play, what struck them the most about the longtime Detroit Symphony Orchestra timpanist, and they will likely cite Rabbio’s sound. Rabbio himself considers sound the most important facet of being a musician. Every player should have a concept of what…

by Lauren Vogel Weiss This is the story of a young boy from a very small school in the Midwest who fell in love with music, especially percussion, and went on to become a teacher for nearly four decades, sharing his passion for music. This passion spread to a then-fledging organization called the Percussive Arts…

by Mark Griffith There are many compliments you can give a musician: musicality, taste, creativity, the ability to make everyone around you sound better. Harold Jones personifies all of those characteristics. But longevity is possibly the highest accolade one can give a musician, and Harold has that, too.  Jones played on one of the first…