Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The country’s talented youthful representation of the steelband art form will shine through steel orchestras from twelve Primary and ten Secondary schools, along with twelve ‘21 and Under’ bands as all compete for titles i
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The country’s talented youthful representation of the steelband art form will shine through steel orchestras from twelve Primary and ten Secondary schools, along with twelve ‘21 and Under’ bands as all compete for titles i
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was double the celebration for two champion bands in the small steel orchestra category on final night. Doing the Southland proud was Golden Hands Steel Orchestra with arranger Vanessa Headley-Brewster, as the music orga
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - And then there were fourteen; but first there were forty-four - small conventional steel orchestras, that is. All in quest of the musical grail - the small steel orchestra championship trophy and accompanying prize purse. A
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Saturday After more than ten hours of competitive performances, last of all from the defending champion New East Side Dimension, the competition wrapped musically at 2:13 a.m. Results came around 2:40 a.m. And the reign
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Saturday January 18 is the big day for thirty-one small steel orchestras as they take to the semi-finals stage at Victoria Square in Port-of-Spain. All intend to make the final cut, having pushed through this far.
Arima Gol
Read more…
Global - The preliminary phase for the Small steel orchestras featured forty-four bands performing before a panel of judges in respective venues/panyards. This is the first in the three conventional steel orchestra categories of the 2025 Trinidad &
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final two nights of preliminary performances in the small conventional steel orchestra category begin Sunday January 12 in the sister isle of Tobago. Four bands are scheduled to perform each night, with reigning Small
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - More steel orchestras in the small conventional category will grace the ‘stage’—that being their respective panyards—in the presence of judges, as they vie for a spot in the January 18 semi-finals coming off at Victoria Sq
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The second leg of preliminary competition in the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama small conventional steel orchestra category, features bands from the Eastern region. Over the course of three nights—Monday January
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Small steel orchestras begin their competition for the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama, with bands around the twin-island country performing in their respective preliminary phases.
see judging schedule
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - And the last shall be “first.” That’s the way things apparently ‘played’ out for the finals of the 2025 season of the Single Pan band component of the annual Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. San Juan East Side Symphony
Tribute to Uric ‘Ragga dat’ Reid
February 23, 1931-November 4, 2024
Uric Reid aka Ragga dat travelled from sixth street Barataria with his friend Joe Roseman to rehearse with City Syncopators. Joe recalled playing second pan on Carnival days with Ra
Global - Title defenders Chord Masters Steel Orchestra take the stage in sixth position, at the finals of the Single Pan Bands for the 2025 season of the Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama. Twenty-four bands are all performing with the expressed
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The 2025 season of the Single Pan preliminaries played out across the country from November 22 through 30, 2024. Participants from the Northern, Eastern, South/Central and Tobago regions performed before the panel of judges
Read more…
Global - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events. Info on the activities for the 2025 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more, as avail
Read more…
United Kingdom - The ‘Call for Papers’ for the 11th Steelpan/Carnival Arts Conference has been extended to 6th December 2024.
....The 11th Steelpan/Carnival Arts Conference...will be held at the elegant theatres of the National Academy for the Perfo
Read more…Terrance “BJ” Marcelle - Arranger
Metro Steel Orchestra at its panyard recording session
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Basement Recordings captures Metro Steel Orchestra on Thursday, August 29 as they prepare in their Brooklyn panyard for the 2024 New
Read more…Tristan Japsi - Arranger
Steel Sensation at its panyard recording session
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Basement Recordings captures Steel Sensation on Friday, August 30 as they prepare in their Brooklyn panyard for the 2024 New York steelband Panorama
Odie Franklin - Arranger
Despers USA Steel Orchestra at its panyard recording session on August 30, 2024Brooklyn, New York, USA - Basement Recordings captures Despers USA Steel Orchestra as they prepare for the 2024 New York steelband Panorama com
Read more…
