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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Young steel pan player killed in freak accident

Kaieteur News

Guyana, S.A. - A 14-year-old steel pan player, who was slated to perform at the flag-raising ceremony last night, was killed in a freak accident on Tuesday evening in front of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School.

The teen had just

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Fathers’ Day steel drum concert set at 4-H center

The Franklin News Post

Event benefits SML Good Neighbors

Virginia, USA - SML’s Parrot Pan and Toucan Pan steel drum bands will perform for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 19 at 3 p.m. in the W.E. Skelton 4-H Center’s covered pavilion.

“This will be the

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Pan for Peace in Israel

GARY CARDINEZ Friday, June 17 2016

IT IS very obvious that the national musical instrument “steelpan” is under- utilised in the land of its birth. Apart from the pan camps and National Panorama competitions which determine the best playing steel orch

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Songs We Love: Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, “Was Dog A Doughnut’

(OPB.org) Oregon Public Broadcasting 
Oregon, USA - At some point in the 1960s, steel drum (a.k.a. pan) music became the Caribbean equivalent of cheesy Vegas lounge tunes: something only an ill-dressed tourist might fancy during a cruise ship port o’

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WIADCA, Caribbean Tourism Organization and Caribbean Heads of Delegations forge relationship-building outreach during Caribbean Week

New York, USA - A ‘marriage made in heaven’ - that of “WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association) and CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organization) bringing collective minds together.” These were the words of Brooklyn-born Congresswoman Yvette Cla

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Steelband Jamboree Enlivens Charlotte Amalie with the Sounds of Carnival

Under a hazy Sunday evening sky, the upbeat rhythms of steelpans filled St. Thomas’s Lionel Roberts Stadium for the annual Carnival Steelband

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