Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Trinidad and Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble has received a donation of $50,000 as seed money towards the purchase of a vehicle to transport instruments.
The donation came from Bernice Ho-Leanza, daughter of the Chinese A
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Efforts are being made to help save a three-year-old child who has been diagnosed with a tumour in her brain.
The following statement has been issued by the Invaders Steel Orchestra:
"Caribbean Airlines Invaders
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At the recent celebration of “Cuba Day” hosted by the Ambassador for Cuba, His Excellency Guillermo Vasquez Moreno, at his Elm Avenue residence in Bayshore, Success Stars Pan Sounds out of Success
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Do you play pan, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, flute, clarinet, keyboards, percussion, guitar or bass? Or do you sing? Are you currently in secondary school?
....Do you wish to enhance your musical skills with a 5-week inte
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Delaware, USA - The Peace Drums Steel Band, made up of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish junior high school students from Israel, will perform from 6-8 p.m., Saturday, April 16, in the University of Delaware’s Perkins Student Center.
The evening
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Musical pupils from three schools joined forces for a performance at the end of last month.
Ensembles from Morpeth’s Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools were joined by the King Edward VI High School
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A tsunami of Steelpan lovers descended on the little village of Tamana on Saturday 19th March 2016 as Pan Trinbago held the first in its series Pan in De Countryside for 2016.
People came as is the custom, from all over Tri
Sheila Hagar - Union Bulletin
When you hear a steel band, listen for history.
Drummed out notes of rebellion and survival, ingenuity and freedom.
The humble steel pan, often incorrectly referred to as a steel drum, was born from an uprising in Trini
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...Hadco, Phase II partnership about ‘creating shared value’
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Just after the Carnival this year, a display advertisement appeared in a weekend newspaper. It was a congratulatory message from Hadc
CCNtv6 at Asami’s Memorial
http://www.tv6tnt.com/sevenpm-news/Asamis-Memorial-376150291.html
CCNtv6 (Updated 18 April 2016) - Asami Nagakiya, gone but not forgotten - video reporting on the Play One for Asami - Memorial Ceremony for Asami Nagakiya e
Read more…She was among the most famous journalists of her day as a reporter for the New York World. Less known about Nellie Bly is her role in creating the 55-gallon steel oil drum.
The 55-gallon steel drum - used practically globally, for the creation of t
Read more…Results - Diatonic Steelpan Institute - Steel in Motion 2016
Activities in Siparia, Trinidad, TT
Results - Steel in Motion 2016 - Siparia Fete
Read more…By Martin G Daly -- Wired 868
The proceeds of our oil and gas production are no longer sustaining the high life. As they say in Grenada, “the money can’t reach.” For decades there has much talk about diversification of the economy, but no action.
Th
Read more…More recognition needed for one of the country’s top arrangers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Winning arranger of four out of eight attempts at Panorama (a 50 per cent winning achievement with second and third places thrown into the mix) is not too bad of
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Winners of the Governor General Award For Literary Excellence: Shakirah Bourne (In Time Of Need) and Winston Farrell (Barefoot On Ice).
Some may not know you were a competent track and field athlete, had entered two pagean
Read more…10: Asami Nagakiya, 30, Japanese musician, strangled
Nagakiya may have not been a world renown musician but her death made headlines everywhere when she was found strangled to death in Port of Spain. This Japanese steel pan player's body was found un
by Maria Murriel -- Public Radio International
Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is celebrated with colorful, feathered, sequined costumes. Last week the capital city's mayor said it was these costumes, an international symbol of the festival, that we
Read more…Jessie Moniz Hardy -- The Royal Gazette - Bermuda
Working on a cruise ship isn’t for everyone. The travel is constant and the work can be intense.
Steel pan player Robert Symons got hooked in 1989 and hasn’t looked back. His latest gig was on Oceani
Read more…REMEMBERING ASAMI
STATEMENT by several Heads of Mission and representatives from International Organizations located in Trinidad and Tobago:
We wish to first and foremost extend our condolences to the family and many friends of Asami, and to expre
By FRANCIS CARR Jr.
WILTON -- While growing up on the island of Trinidad, Norwalker Donna Rogers-Jones and her brother Robert were discouraged from playing the percussion instrument known to Trinidadians as a steelpan.
The instrument, fashioned from
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