NIU Steel Band will hold a series of concerts in the Chicagoland area running through April 26.
Steel Band is a 35-member group made up of steelpan percussion majors.
The band will take part in a benefit concert for Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Read more…Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas is now trying to secure a $75 million loan from First Citizens in order to clear up debts accrued as a result of his miscalculating last year’s budget. Until that loan is secured, Carnival 2015 wi
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Codrington Pan Family: The steelpan ensemble from Trinidad and Tobago sparked one of the liveliest dance parties of the fest late Saturday, even using the “Green Acres” theme as groove fodder.
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Ohio, USA - Members of Oberlin Steel (OSteel) will visit nearby Wellington, Ohio, on April 8 to participate in an educational workshop that will introduce students at Westwood Elementary School to the steel pan and the music of Trinidad and Toba
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Guyana, SA - The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s steel pan band was named the winner of this year’s Mashramani Panorama Steel Pan Competition on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown.
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Read more…Global Voices
2015 Carnival celebrations have come to an end in Trinidad and Tobago, but for many who could not not participate in the spectacle, substandard coverage by local television stations left many viewers disappointed.
Trinidad and Tobago Ca
Read more…[Traffic Alert] A series of Road Blocks across T&T has caused major delays for commuters on the nations roads this morning. C News understand that the Road Blocks, which are being carried out by members of the T&T Police Service, are being conducted
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Someone writing in the Letters section of the Trinidad Express has suggested that female players should be used to promote pan. He believes that if (
Read more…Most people associate Carnival with Brazil's widely covered costumed cavalcade.
But slightly off that glittery path is a lesser known bacchanal that gives Rio a run for its rhinestones.
From New Orleans to the Netherlands, people anxiously await this
Read more…Pantrinbago president offloading a container of specially made steel for Pantrinbago pan factory
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Guyana, SA - Guyana is awash, virtually daily, with an array of ‘bad news’ stories. The ‘good news’ items are around, but they don’t always make the headlines; they remain invisible. This one I’m about to tell you goes back some years t
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Two months ago, Virgil Franklin along with the help of Tony Kluesner, formed the Jammin' Pans Steel Band and on February 19, they held their first concert at the Glenburn Nursing Home.
"Our first concert went well," said Franklin, "It was great to ge
Read more…Legendary New York Daily News executive John Campi, who retired from the paper after a storied half-century career, passed away Friday. The newspaper veteran was 75.
Campi — who left the paper just two years ago — died of cardiac arrest at the Hacke
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I am back Managing Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra and Kareem (The Dream) Thompson will be arranging the composition for New York Panorama 2015.
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An important Pan on the Green meeting is scheduled for steel band directors for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix campus, in Room T100.
“The meeting is being called to begin accepting ap
The beat goes on for steel drums at Sunrise Elementary School, where the unique sound has resonated for 25 years.
Gary Gibson is determined to keep a good thing going.
When the Kent school contemplated mothballing the after-school program a few year
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New York, USA - Horace Morancie, one of the city's most powerful activists in the 1960s, died Wednesday of natural causes, his family said. He was 85.
Morancie, born in Trinidad and Tobago, came to New York in 1954 when he was
Read more…Oxford Business Group - 16 Feb 2015
Within Trinidad and Tobago’s diverse tourism industry, the annual carnival is frequently cited as the jewel in the crown. Certainly, in cultural terms it is central to Trinbagonian identity. The parades held on the
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