Happy Birthday to Sheleen Baynes
November 21
When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to panist 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
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
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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
Keith Moone works on a steel drum Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, at the Mannette Musical Instruments workshop in Osage, W.Va.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
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - When Steel Talks (WST) extends congratulations to Halcyon Steel Orchestra on the conferring of a national honour on the music organization – the ʽInstitutional Award: The Most Precious Order of Princely Heritage (Gold)’ for
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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
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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?
Eric Adams & Tony Joseph
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.”
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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
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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/
- 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.
- 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.
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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 -
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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Friend or Foe: Will the next New York Mayor be an Ally of the New York Steelband Music Community?
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams with USSA (United States Steelband Association) President Anthony “Big Tony” JosephBrooklyn, New York, USA - If Eric Adams does become Mayor of New York City, will there FINALLY be a Mayor who is an advocate f
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