North Brentwood, Maryland, USA - On May 5, 2025, the Pan Masters Steel Orchestra of Washington, DC will celebrate forty years of showcasing Steelband Music in the Washington Metropolitan area. Pan Masters has attributed its success to a strong belie
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A motorcycle police interacts with cheering onlookers at the Point Fortin’s 45th Anniversary Military Parade, Victor Chin Kit Park, on April 25Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Atlantic LNG says it is proud to be able to sponsor three key events of the up
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Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Two prominent steel orchestras have issued an ultimatum to the Antigua and Barbuda Pan Association demanding elections be held before the end of April or face potential disruption to the 2025 Panorama compe
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Former president of the National Gas Company of TT Mark Loquan, right, and Prof Patrick Hosein display their Order of the Republic of TT (ORTT) medals at President’s House, St Ann’s, on September 24, 2024Trinidad & Toba
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our deepest condolences to the family and friends of song writer, producer and panist Mark Loquan. His commitment, talent and professionalism will be missed.
Clemson University Steel BandClemson, South Carolina, USA - Clemson University’s Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band will collaborate with South Carolina middle and high schools for a joint concert on April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Brook
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Members of the USSA Executive BoardBrooklyn, New York, USA - The United States Steelband Association (USSA) held its first general meeting on Thursday February 13, 2025 with band representatives and interested parities present in-house. The venue
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Prime Minister Stuart Young with his parents Priscilla and Richard at the swearing-in ceremony at President’s House, St Ann’s, on Monday.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In less than 48 hours of being sworn in as the nation’s e
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Caribbean Union Bank Hells Gate Steel Orchestra, celebrating 80 years of continuous existence, performed at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Parham Town
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Wednesday 5th February 2025 at Antigua & Barbuda’s National Music Aw
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Katzenjammers players feeling the music as they perform an arrangement of Sparrow's Lying Excuses for Panorama medium band finals on February 23 in Bacolet, Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Beverley
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....TUCO has released the names of the eleven Calypsonians who qualified for the finals. They move on to the calypso monarch Dimanche Gras Finals on Sunday March 2 at Carnival City, Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain.
Global - Score sheets for the twenty-one medium steel orchestras which completed their panyard preliminary judging were opened on Monday February 10. A three-way tie allows sixteen medium steel orchestras into the semi-finals phase this year. Pan-De
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....At a time when others seek to claim The Steelpan as their own, this graphic is a reminder that This (Trinidad and Tobago) is ‘Pan Country.’ These words are expressed in two diagonally opposite quadrants of a circle alo
Trinidad and Tobago’s PM has previously stated that the three Columbus ships on the twin-island nation’s emblem is “substantial in how we see ourselves.”
STEELPAN HISTORY: The iconic Steelpan on the Coat of Arms. (Pic credit: The Government of Trini
Panorama timeTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Panorama season in Trinidad and Tobago which is in the thick of Carnival events and one of the best ways to show support for the national instrument, the Steelpan, and to have
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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…Leon “Smooth” Edwards and Bertram “Birch” Kelman among awardees
From left, Leon "Smooth" Edwards receives his honorary doctorate of fine arts from President Christine Kangaloo, Chancellor of UTT at the UTT graduation ceremony at NAPA, Port of Spain,
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Leon “Smooth” Edwards and Bertram “Birch” Kelman
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Entrepreneur Sieunarine Persad Coosal and politician and educator Orville London are among the five local luminari
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of musician Roy Cape.
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