The State of the Steelpan - Mark Loquan
Trinidad - I was following from afar the events unfolding in the pan world with some of the latest controversies around payment for pan players, the Ministry and Pan Trinbago appearing not to have a common v
Read more…In the land of pan - Trinidad & Tobago - their steelpan governing body Pan Trinbago recently received a crushing blow when the Trinidad & Tobago G
Read more…Another year has passed...
Happy Birthday to the Master! The late Clive Bradley
Global - November 4, 2011 would have been master arranger, Clive Bradley’s 75th birthday.
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Travis (Captain of CASYM Steel Orchestra):
Please accept the condolences and thoughts on the passing of your Father, from the When Steel Talks & Basement Recordings staff, and convey same to the rest of your family.
Read more…More Money for Pan
by DeFosto
Verse 1
You start as a champion culture minister
By putting carnival back in the savannah
When you change the name of NAPA
To the beat of the drum
And you call it
Lord Kitchener’s auditorium
You eve
Congratulation to all the songwriters, composers, lyricists, arrangers, musicians, vocalists, producers and support teams who contributed mightily to this year’s superb bumper crop of “Pan Tunes” for 2011. Your talent is second to none.
Read more…Happy New Years to all the members of the WST family.
Pan 4 Life
When Steel Talks
Read more…WST member Joel Augustin asks
Can someone explain to me what exactly is a "Panorama Tune". For the
better part of the last 70 years all types of tunes were played by pan
sides. The calypsonians sang tunes of humour, social commentary, love
etc and t
Happy Mother's Day to all.
http://www.panonthenet.com/news/2011/may/mothers_day-5-6-11.htm
WST
New World Steel Orchestra, originally founded
in 1984 by Arthur France MBE was re-launched
twenty years later in 2004. Arthur was born in
Nevis the sister island of St. Kitts. Among
the most lasting achievements has
been his promotion of the first ever
Lee
by Nestor Sullivan
Global - This year, 2010, steelbands in England participating in the Panorama at the Notting Hill Carnival, played for free. That is, the bands received no monies for appearance fees or for prizes. It is reported that this was due
Read more…Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film
Global - Steelpan pioneer and visionary Bertie Marshall is the subject of this film production by film maker, producer, director, pan man and steelpan historian Dalton Narine. This is a fifty-minute
Talking about Copper's day - he was something else as Trini's like to say. He was also the captain of the Angel Harps Steel Orchestra. In those days playing the steel pan was termed "beating pan" and it was a 'special group' of players that beat pan
Read more…Global - It’s March and that means this is Women’s Month. It is the month when we celebrate the contributions of women to the world. Normally - as it is a When Steel Talks tradition - we highlight the month through a series of articles and intervie
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By: Dr. Jeannine Remy -- ( judges comments also included )
Trinidad and Tobago - The entire 2010 Panorama season was kicked off in the south on Coffee Street in San Fernando on January 15th with a preliminary competition for single pan bands. Only o
New York, USA - Indeed the title of this article is a shocker for some. Did an initial set of confusion rush to your brain? Did you rub your eyes twice to check what you were reading? Good!! Ah - but imagine for a moment that twelve months ago famed
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