Review: Steelpan virtuoso Akiho dazzles with Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

TribLive.com

Pennsylvania, USA -  ....Most of the concert was devoted to five pieces by rising composer Andy Akiho. Born in 1979, his main instrument is steel pan — a concave bowl with specific pitches provides by convex surfaces within the bowl. He

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Everything You Need To Know About The Notting Hill Carnival

Everything You Need To Know About The Notting Hill Carnival

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International Marimba and Steelpan Festival 2016

Artslink.co.za News

Gauteng, South Africa - Esteemed adjudicators for the 5^th Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival 2016.

We are less than three weeks away from the largest marimba and steelpan festival in the world with over

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TT delegation to visit St. Lucia for roadshow

Press Release

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No nest for birdsong

Trinidad & Tonago Newsday

ANA-LISSA JACK (NYLO INTERN) Wednesday, August 10 2016

ON THE second day of pan month, birdsong Academy Steelband and Music School received an eviction notice to vacate its Tunapuna base. The band has until August 15 to vaca

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$40,000 for Belize Pan Yaad Steelband Contest and Carnival King and Queen Competition - Thanks to Taiwan

7BelizeNews.com

Belize, C.A. - Earlier on we told you how the Taiwanese had donated a whole new building for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - well that was after lunch; after breakfast they also gave $40,000 to the National Celebrations Commission.

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Congratulations to the 2016 Antigua & Barbuda national panorama champions - Halcyon Steel Orchestra

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to the 2016 Antigua & Barbuda national panorama champions - Halcyon Steel Orchestra

The 2016 Antigua & Barbuda national panorama champions - Halcyon Steel Orchestra
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Steelband Panoram

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Pops Mohamed and Steelpan Player Dave Reynolds set to tour KwaZulu Natal - South Africa

Highway Mail

South Africa - ISUPPORT Music Business, in association with Concerts SA, present the KwaZulu-Natal tour of Pops Mohamed and Dave Reynolds. The duo and their band will visit the Still Session at Distillery031 in Durban, Luthuli Museum i

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Wallace Austin, Famous Pan Tuner needs Medical Help,

To When Steel Talks/ Pan Times/ James Foster,

I just learned that Wallace Austin, Famous Pan Tuner needs Medical Help, we can talk as much as we want on this web site Pan Trinbago more than likely from past experience will not do anything.

Can you or

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Percussion master showcased in San Bernardino library workshop

The Sun
California, USA - ....His dad grew up on a farm and listened only to country music before [Joseph] Peck expanded his music appreciation to jazz, the steel drums or pans of Trinidad and Tobago, calypso, reggae and ultimately world music. Peck

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Musician George Victory has passed

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of ace guitarist George Victory.  He was an avid supporter of Pan.

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If the Cleveland Cavaliers played Pan

If the Cleveland Cavaliers played Pan there is no doubt that they would have given the Panorama champs a challenge.

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Letter to Steel Pan Family

To My Steelband Family:

 

Since 1960 this man has been tuning pans for the City Symphony Orchestra on St. Paul’s Street (behind the bridge) in Port of Spain. When Carnival finished that year, we were each paid $300TT for an entire season of tuning. D

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Friends, panists cheer Williams’ 85th birthday

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelpan innovator and former tuner, leader and arranger Anthony “Tony” Williams celebrated his 85^th birthday last Friday but was “feted” by his friends and family on Saturday at his Nepal Street

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Panist ‘overjoyed’ to be attending Princeton

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Pan Pun De Sand – all Bajan talent

Nation News

Bridgetown, Barbados, W.I. - It was pure Mosaic magic as the more than 40-member band closed the show on the last day of the three-day pan extravaganza, Massy Pan Pun De Sand, at Brandons Beach on Sunday.

For over seven hours there was

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The Mayor’s pan jazz experience

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Pan Jazz Experience Concert was presented by the office of the Mayor of Port of Spain at Adam Smith Square, Woodbrook, last Saturday.

The audience gathered under the stars to view performanc

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Mayor saves St James pan festival

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As late as 8 p.m. on Thursday, when it seemed that tonight’s 16th annual steelband parade along Western Main Road, St James, would be cancelled due to a lack of funding, Port-of-Spain Mayor Kerr

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Steelpan Music Program and Performing Arts School, Meyer Levin Safe for Now!

City nixes bid to nest charter school inside Brooklyn's cherished Meyer Levin building

City school officials have scrapped a controversial proposal to place a charter in a beloved Brooklyn public school building, they said Friday.

The move comes aft

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Marabella gets ready for Pan In De Countryside

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Outstanding Single Pan steelband T&T Fire Services

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Following last weekend’s explosion of beautiful pan music in the North, the action goes south this weekend to the Marabella Recreation Grounds,

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