Green Bay Press-Gazzette
Wisconsin, USA - The Pangelic Duo — steel pan drummer Liam Teague and harpist Faye Seeman — takes the stage for Birch Creek Music Performance Center's annual Fall Benefit gala concert Oct. 22. The concert includes heavy hors
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Canberra, Australia - Is there anything more evocative or atmospheric than the steel drums? You can almost hear the ocean waves and feel the sun on your skin.
Well, there's no more of that soundtrack to tropical paradise at the W
Read more…Claude - It looks like a season of CONCUSSION for you. Ah Lie?
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The Valley Vanguard
Michigan, USA - On Saturday, Oct. 22, assistant professor of music education at SVSU (Saginaw Valley State University) Brandon Haskett gave a solo steel drum performance in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall.
The pieces performed incl
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“A move must be made by the general membership to remove them from office, install an interim executive to run the business of the organisation from now until October next year. Serious reform must take p
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Although it’s long overdue, living steelband icon Anthony Williams was bestowed an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of the West Indies last Saturday, at the St Augustine Ca
-- The Kansan
Brad Shores first saw a steel drum being played at the Tempe Arts Festival in Arizona and was immediately intrigued by the instrument.
After talking with the steel drum player, noted musician Tom Gates, Sho
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Read more…Newsday -- PAN TRINBAGO has gone global with the formation of the International Association of Steelbands (tAS) which was established in September this year at the Bank of New York (ENY) Mellon, New York, United States of America,
During the Internat
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by Joel Julien - Trinidad Guardian
There is “significant doubt” about Pan Trinbago’s ability to continue as a “going concern” in the light of a $34.5 million debt facing the organisation, PKF Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors has stated in
Read more…Steel pan, born on the island of Trinidad in the late 1930s, began as an outlaw instrument, hammered from milk tins, biscuit
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The steelband fraternity lost another one of its stalwarts in Alfred ‘Sacks’ Mayers who passed away on Saturday October 22, at the age 82. According to a release from Pan Trinbago it stated that ‘
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Siblings Jeremy and Joella Granado, eight and 11 respectively, yesterday claimed first place in the Instrumental and Steelpan solo segments at the San Fernando Arts Council’s National Junior Arts
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Janine Mendes-Franco -- Global Voices
“La Belle Dame”, one of the costumes in the 2017 Carnival band “Cazabon — The Art of Living”. Photo by Gary Jordan Photography, used with permission.
In Trinidad and Tobago, it's the time of year th
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Cordettes Steel Orchestra may be an unsponsored outfit, but it remains an institution in the eastern district of Sangre Grande.
Established around 1962, the band has held its own as an ensemble,
Read more… Born in East Dry River, Port-of-Spain in 1940, Owen Serrette’s family moved to Morvant when he was just one year old, a move that eventually saw him become a bona fide Harmonites Steel Orchestra member, a steelband he still faithfully serves. Serret
Brent and Kilburn Times
Stonebridge, London, U.K.- A youth steel band in Stonebridge could be playing at Notting Hill Carnival for the last time this year amid fears it could be axed.
St Michael and All Angels Steel Orchestra, part of the St Micha
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Photo Gallery - SWAVIC 2 on 20th August 2016
SWAVIC, Siparia Police Youth Club Band, Old Tech + Hatters
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Why are we having such a good time in celebration of an anniversary of Independence immediately preceding a crisis meeting between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on the subject of viol
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