Trinidad Newsday
By Tyrell Gittens Monday, August 28 2017
Speaking at Saturday’s launch of the National Steel Pan Manufacturing Journeyman Programme in Macoya, Secretary of the Steel Pan Tuners’ Guild of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Duncan revealed t
Read more…Call for audit leaves PanTrinbago hitting sour note
Published on February 5, 2017
Natalie Briggs
Journalist
Published in Newsday, Thursday, February 2
Business Day had planned to treat with the plight of the artistes and the difficulties they face re
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by Donella Hosten
On the evening of Saturday, 12 August 2017, Panorama was postponed. 8 steel bands came out to the National Stadium with the intention of vying for the coveted title of 2017 Panorama champs, only to be informed, after
Read more…The Voice -- Written by Nadine White --
JAM PACKED: Carnival trucks make their way through the crowd in Notting Hill
IN THE wake of recent terror attacks on the capital, Notting Hill Carnival’s mas and steel bands will see security inspections of t
Read more…The Journal Times
Racine, Wisconsin, USA - Racine’s Festival Hall will become an island oasis on Friday, Oct. 6, when steel drummers from near and far fill it with the unmistakably tropical tones of their music, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The steel dru
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Saturday, 12 August 2017: The incomplete stage for Panorama | NOW Grenada
The Grenada Steel Bands Association is appalled at the level of outright disrespect, which has been leveled at its membership in recent years and particularly o
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Following last evening’s staging of We goin’ down Sando steelband concert by the International Steelband Foundation (ISF) at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), the national inst
This is almost as bad as teefiing the children Christmas money. Why has Claude Gonzales been silent on the matter? Inquiring minds would like to know?
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NYC Mayor Bill deBlasio and his family dance at the 2014 West Indian American Day Carnival prior to his election in November 2014.
By NAN ET Editor
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Aug. 25, 2017: In a matter of 9 days, the West Indian American Day
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Soca artist Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc accompanies Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra, while performing his hit song “Phenomenal” during the International Steelband Foundation concert titled "We Going Down Sando" held a
Pan players are extremely elated as they collected $500.00 instead of the $1000.00 that was promised. They are so pleased with Mr. Diaz and his executive that they are now insisting that for 2018 they would like the money even further reduced to $25
Read more…The Guardian
Following the fire at the west London tower block, there were new calls for the Notting Hill carnival to be relocated. But counting down to this year’s event, locals and carnival makers remain adamant that it should stay put – and pay re
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James O’Connor’s film To Be A Renegade, captures the story of the BP Renegades through an examination of the violent beginnings of pan, the er
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Wyn Baptiste grew up in Notting Hill believing his dad Selwyn, a Trinidadian steel pan player who arrived in Britain in 1960 and was the first Chair of Notting Hill Carnival Committee, was the man who started Carnival. But the truth isn't quite tha
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By Shareen Gray BA (Hons), Director of Steel Pan Trust
Ting, ting, ting… the anticipation is like an electric current passing through the crowd in Kensal Road as, after months of dedicated practice, a mighty steelband rings out its first beats.
Pano
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “On Saturday August 26th 2017, the Woodbrook/St. James Community Association is once again planning to have Pan on d’Avenue along Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook. The parade route this year is from Taylor Street heading east to
Check out the comments on the article left by the people gentrifying the traditional NY Pan neighborhoods.
Gothamist
New York, USA - Two Crown Heights venues where locals practice and prepare for J'Ouvert and other West Indian American Day Carnival
