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| DAVID "ZIGGY" WALCOTT |
| 2007 MainStage KEW Gardens |
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Photo courtesy of Bill King
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David Walcott is one of the better known Tenor Pannist in Barbados. He holds an Associate Degree in Music from the Barbados Community College and is currently completing a BA in Music from the U.W.I. Centre for Creative and Festival Arts, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad, with pan as his specialist instrument.
He has worked as an arranger and Musical Director of the Pan Revolution Steel Orchestra, the band he has played with from the time he was 13 years old. He has also played with the Casa Blanca Steel Band and the St. Lucy Secondary School Steel Orchestra.
Although David's first taste of the big Pan stage came in 1995, when he performed on the Panorama stage with Trinidad All Stars, it was in 1999 that David burst onto the Barbadian musical scene. That year, he accompanied local calypsonian "Adonijah" on the popular composition “Tenor Pan” in the Calypso Tents, at the “Pick of the Crop” Semi-Finals, the “Party Monarch Finals” and the “King of Kings Calypso Competition” Finals in Trinidad & Tobago. He achieved further success that same year, when his arrangement of the Kitchener Classic “Pan in A Minor”, performed by Pan Revolution Steel Orchestra, was awarded Gold at the Barbados National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA).
David Walcott has performed with many popular Barbadian and International musicians and calypsonians including Andy Narrell, Raf Robertson, AJA and Boo Hinkson. He has appeared on several Pan shows namely, “Calypso in Steel” in 1999 with Amoco Renegades, and the Barbados Pan Festival in 2001, 2002 and 2003 with Pan Revolution Steel Orchestra, Neal and Massey Trinidad All Stars and Exodus respectively. He featured in the Holders Season in 2003 and 2004 accompanying artistes such as Zoe Rohan and Martin Taylor, as well as in the associated promotional performance in the UK entitled “Holders in London” in 2003. He has also performed and headlined at the Barbados Jazz Festival.
David is a founder member of the Barbados Association of Steelpan Teachers and has served on the Executive Council as Second Vice-President. He has worked with a number of school steelbands as teacher/arranger including Coleridge & Parry School, the Combermere School and is currently attached to the St. George Secondary School. He has also served as a judge for the Pick-of-the-Crop Competition during the Crop Over Festival in 2004 and 2005, and he was on the judging panel for the Performing Arts category of NIFCA in 2006.
Never one to rest on his laurels, David has taken on two new challenges. He is now a tutor in the Associate Degree in Music programme at the Barbados Community College, and in July last year he was appointed Director of the Barbados National Youth Steel Orchestra (BNYSO).
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