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    The SFA Steel Band will perform traditional, Caribbean and Latin favorites during its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

Members of the SFA Steel Band, White Oak freshman Tyler Caldwell (left) and Kennedale freshman Joseph Alvarado, perform at a recent event at The Cole Art Center. The Steel Band will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Cole Concert Hall.

    The 12-member ensemble performs with a full set of steel pans (made from 55-gallon oil drums), an electric bass guitar, drum set and a large array of Latin percussion—or as they say in Trinidad, the “Engine Room,” explained Scott Harris, SFA associate professor of percussion and the group’s director.

    The program includes Caribbean favorites “Rant and Rave,” “Brazil” and “Maryanne,” as well as American popular music such as “Black Magic Woman,” Come on, Eileen” and “Fragile.”

    Harris invites everyone to don a Hawaiian shirt and join the group for a memorable evening of fun, excitement and, of course, the traditional Limbo dance — a featured event at every SFA Steel Drum Band performance.

    The concert is a joint presentation of the SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Music.

    Cole Concert Hall is located in the Wright Music Building, 2210 Alumni Drive.

    Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $2 for students. For tickets or more information, please visit www.finearts.sfasu,edu or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.

    Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Science will present the dance program’s spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, in W.M. Turner Auditorium. The concert will showcase works by SFA students, dance program faculty and guest artists.

    Professor Stan Bobo’s work “T’wixt Dusk and Dawn” recently was seen at the American College Dance Festival in Laredo, along with “Sieve,” which was set on the SFA Repertory Dance Company last fall by guest artist Sarah Imhoff-Jones. Another repertory work from the fall, “A Shot in the Dark,” will make its main-stage debut. It was restaged for the company by visiting guest artists from Berlin, Birgitt Bodingbauer and Simone Grindel. Adjunct faculty member Heather Samuelson contributes “Propulsion,” a group work for six dancers that explores geometric shapes and intricate lifts to music by Frédéric Chopin.

    The concert also is an opportunity for students completing their bachelor’s degrees in dance to present their works. This semester, six students have created new dances under the direction of Professor Elizabeth Rhodes. They are Bethany Anguiano, Jessica Chance, Alex Charles, Katie Reeves, Hannah Schultz and Tamara Story. Two additional student choreographers, Katie Husfelt and Mirannda Lindberg, have been invited to restage their works, which debuted in the dance program’s studio concert last fall.

    Tickets, which will be sold at the door, are $12 for general admission, $8 for SFA faculty and staff members and senior citizens, and $5 for students. For additional information, call (936) 468-1543 or e-mail dance@sfasu.edu.