Former president of Pan Trinbago Patrick Arnold: remembers the late great Clive Bradley

When Steel Talks

Global - "The pan movement all over world has lost one of its great arrangers and composers. He will surely be missed. I can't even imagine a panorama without him. Bradley's arrangements were unique. This year he won in New York - th

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PAN TRINBAGO'S DILEMMA

Having read the article titled "N.C.C. Board is Back" on page 19 of the Express of 25th November 2021 and as a person who served as Chairman of the Northern Region Pan Trinbago for two terms (2012-2018) and recently resigned from the Central Executiv

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to panist & administrator Sheleen Baynes

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to panist, ace musician, educator and composer Zaynab Wilson

Happy Birthday to Zaynab Wilson

December 20th

When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to panist, ace musician, educator and composer Zaynab Wilson

“... I respect and appreciate the title “musician.” Being fortunate

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Wah She Go Do (Bonnie Raitt's Version) - by Calypso Rose

Van Dyke Parks
@thevandykeparks

Wah She Go Do ~ Bonnie Raitt sings a Calypso Rose tune
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Bonnie Raitt was born Nov. 8, 1949. So I took her a dong by friend Calypso Rose, and arranged it for her: Wah She Go Do?

"Wah She Go Do" (McCarth Lewis) 1973
V

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A Moment in Pan - "A declaration is insufficient" -- Dennise Demming

Time to pass legislation to make the steel pan our national instrument. A declaration is insufficient.

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At This West Virginia Steelpan Drum Company, A Visionary’s Beat Goes On

West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Osage, West Virginia, USA - It takes about 40 hours of hammering to turn a steel drum into a ste

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The potential of steelpan

THE EDITOR: I remember it as if was only yesterday.

It was a cool night in Grand Chemin, Moruga; the slight chill cooled and comforted our bodies through our light tropical clothing. There we were, a group of young men playing the steelpan, crammed i

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Congratulations to Antigua & Barbuda’s Halcyon Steel Orchestra upon its National Conferment Honour

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Congratulations to panist & arranger Mickiel Gabriel on receiving his degree in the performing arts (music)

Congratulations to Mickiel Gabriel from When Steel Talks

Relevant content:

• Mickiel Gabriel - Panorama arranger

• Mickiel Gabriel, Champion arranger for Success Stars Pan Sounds - Panorama 2013

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T&T has NEVER had a cultural policy in all of its years of Independence!

by Nigel A. Campbell
There was a thing that happened in Costa Rica in 2012. Executive decree No. 37418-C, published in the official government newspaper La Gaceta de Costa RICA gave special recognition to Calypso as part of Costa Rica’s cultural and

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Beyond Kissing Babies - Shaking Hands, Visiting Steel Orchestra Panyards and Broken Promises

When Steel Talks

The Death March of New York Pan and Culture?

Brooklyn, New York, USA - ....From 2014 to present Eric Adams has served as Brooklyn’s Borough President. His fortunes have gone very well politically in that p

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We can draw lessons from the past -- A Moment in Pan -- HueLoy Yip Young

“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

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Congratulations to panist Zakiya De Coteau on receiving her degree in Musical Arts

Congratulations to Zakiya De Coteau from When Steel Talks

Relevant content

• Meet Zakiya De Coteau - Trinidad & Tobago

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‘Columbus Lie’ by the Mighty Shadow

When Steel Talks - Reboot

‘Columbus Lie’ by the Mighty Shadow

Global - The late great calypsonian “Shadow” shares the true history of Christopher Columbus via a live performance in Canada, 1994.
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Columbus was a mighty sailor
He sailed the o

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Columbus Day: 10 lies about Columbus

By Annemarie van de Wouw - https://www.chicagonow.com/

1. Columbus was not the first person who discovered the Americas, the first explorers came from Siberia and discovered Alaska at about 70,000? B.C. – 12,000? B.C.
2. Columbus’s ships did not sail thro

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Happy Birthday to Lakeisha Danglade - October 10

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to musician extraordinaire and educator Lakeisha Danglade. 

More on Lakeisha...

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Steelbands in NYC deserve competitive access to real-estate - A Moment in Pan

Steelbands in NYC deserve competitive access to real-estate dedicated solely to preservation and advocacy of their culture and art-form. places to rehearse. places to store instruments. places for tuners to tune those instruments. places for teachers

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Steelband clash! ...former Pan Trinbago VP: Ramsey-Moore just like Trump

Trinidad Express -  Michael Mondezie

Chaotic. Toxic. Hostile.

That’s how former Pan Trinbago vice-presi­dent Carlan Harewood described the current work environment within the Beverly Ramsey-Moore-led pan body executive.

Harewood shocked the pan frat

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A Moment in Greatness - Planting Seeds - *A Mommy Rocket Story*

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce was born in abject poverty in the heart of the Kingston inner city. As a schoolgirl she went to the Penn relays in Philadelphia with her high school team. There was a Jamaican woman benefactor there who took some of the Jama

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