Steelband Clash - BBC Outlook interviews - Arranger Ray Holman
Tuesday, 25th October 2016, 04:02 pm
Presenter Jo Fidgen, on the BBC programme Outlook, introduces the historical cultural topic of the 'Steelband Clashes' that occurred during the earRead more…
The Kim Johnson Interview with Vanessa Headley on WACK 90.1FM - On Youtube
Sunday, 22nd May 2016. 03:00 pm.
Broadcast by WACK 90.1FM on Programme Steelpan City.
Dr. Kim Johnson, an Anthony N. Sabga Laureate for Excellence in Arts & Letters (2011),
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Directed by: Cowin Thorpe
Filmed By: Gabriel T.I Nagee
Executive Producer: Akil Borneo
Director of Photography: Melvern Isaac
Editor & Colorist: Cowin Thorpe
Behind The Scene & Grip: Melvern Isaac
Play back & Lighting: Ikenna Douglas
Makeup Artiste: Lise
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History of Steelband in Eras with Mr. Nestor Sullivan
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Brooklyn, New York - The narrative of the life and times of Doris Green is in itself a compelling story and fantastic journey that needs to told, studied and chronicled. Her seminal work in a notation
Funny how you have been at one of the Oxford balls I played for! I have enjoyed your interview as reading along I identified with your thoughts on steel pan, carnival and all.......thank you Ms Nicholson!
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Barbados, West Indies - “Pan is about to become a billion dollar, global industry, and not a cent will go to the inventors.” - She is an artist who captures history, culture in the most authentic mann
By Lear Matthews
People criticized our parents. “How could you allow your daughters to do such a thing?” they would ask.
It was the early 1950’s. Guyana, then British Guiana, like many other Caribbean countries was in the initial stages of struggle
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London, UK - Trinidadian born Frank Rollock grew up in East Trinidad, Tunapuna to be exact. From a tender age he was sent to piano lessons to enhance his musical skills. His interest in music was part of a family tradition. |
Co-authored by Cape and Jocelyne Guilbault, lecturer in ethnomusicology at University of California, Berkeley and scholar of Caribbean popular music, the book, says Cape, is about musicians, the forgotten contributors of our music.
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Illinois, USA - In 1964 twenty-two members of the Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband toured the United States and created steelpan music history. Among the virtual who’s who of outstanding panists who were picked for the tour was noted NIU (North
This morning Friday 22nd August I'll be interviewed by Etienne A. Gibbs on his radio show. We'll be talking steelpan in all forms (from tuners to arrangers to steelbands). We'll be talking about the E-Pan, the World's 1st Electronic Steelpan. From 9:
Read more…Global - Kareem Thompson's love affair with the steelpan instrument began at the age of eight years old. It has been and continues to be, a magnificent story. Thoughtful, cerebral, gifted, spiritual and introspective - Kareem brings that rare blend
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago’s National Instrument Booms In Africa
An Exclusive Interview with the President - Pan Trinbago 50th Anniversary 1963-2013
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Keith Diaz - as the organization and the country celebrates the GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
Calm, unassuming, and extremely humble - Andy’s demeanor belies his globally recognized musical accomplishments with the steelpan instrument.
Global - Quiet but passionate, unassuming but already musically an aficionado, Andy Akiho’s journey with t
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Miranda has traveled the world over as a member of the legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. She embodies all the characteristics of a great panist - talent, intellect, disc
Global - “...I just so happen to love the instrument, and the culture and everything that goes behind it - like Trinidad, calypso... once I got into pan, I really got into it. And as a composer I was coming from like a film score background - like f
Triinidad and Tobago - Her story, her reality, her journey - A Pan story... In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Josanne Francis of Trinidad and Tobago—now an NIU graduate student—shares h
By MTV Iggy
April 8, 2014
The soca music genre is fast becoming globally embraced, with Major Lazer’s support of the genre, remixing Bunji Garlin’s massive hit “Differentology” and then working alongside Machel Montano for the production of his 2014
