Plum Island Pans is a group of multiple steel drum ensembles from the North Shore, originating from Zach Field Drum Studios. The groups have exploded onto the scene as one of the few steel drum bands in the area.  Plum Island Pans covers a number of styles and genres of music including traditional steel drum music, reggae, jazz and billboard hits.  Due to high demand, Plum Island Pans has multiple steel drum bands that are ready to play for your next event.

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Listen to Plum Island Pans:

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Zach Field Drum Studios was started in 1999 in West Newbury, MA. After many years of giving lessons in West Newbury, the studio grew to capacity and needed more space and more instructors. In March of 2008, Zach Field Drum Studios moved to the Newburyport location where there was more space for the studio to grow.

The studio has four drumset rooms and an ensemble room. Each drumset room is equipped with two complete drumsets, one for the teacher and one for the student. The drum rooms have computers in them that enables the teachers to access the music program, Rhapsody. Rhapsody is a web-based program that allows the teachers to access millions of artists and songs, instantly, www.rhapsody.com. The rooms are also equipped with an isolation headphone system that allows the teacher and the student to play along with songs and still hear the music over the volume of the drums.
Lessons at ZFDS consists of a well rounded education covering rudiments, snare drum pieces, reading exercises, melodic percussion studies, improvisation, funk/rock/jazz/latin studies and also learning music that the students are interested in. Many times throughout the year, the studio puts together an ensemble to perform in the community.

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Plum Island Pans

Owner and instructor graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell with a bachelors degree in music performance. Aside from teaching and managing ZFDS, Zach was the percussion director throughout the Pentucket Regional School District for 12 years where he started the percussion program in 1999 and had over 150 students in the program. He also taught at Salem State College and is a guest lecturer at UMass Lowell. When Zach is not teaching, he is very active performing with many different music groups. He currently performs with The Molenes, Qwill and his steel drum band, Plum Island Pans. Zach has multiple recording credits: Kate Redgate, The Molenes, Mari Rosa, Storybook Steve, Joel Solemon, Ballet Mechanique Word Premiere Performance and has also recorded for Bose speakers.  Zach is the founder of Plum Island Pans Steel Drum Band and The Gong Meditation Project

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