The Tobago News
Tobago, W.I. - In its quest to keep the steelband culture alive outside of carnival, the National Gas Company (NGC) sponsored Steel Xplosion Orchestra will stage a pan concert next month.
The super pan concert is slated to come off o
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Steel Pan and Guitar Night
Botswana - It’s a date. Friday 8th August could go down as one of the best nights at Botswanacraft.
Oliver Mtukudzi and Ringo Madlingozi have produced some of the most memorable nights at the country’s best
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - He was dubbed “A Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan virtuoso” at age 15 by adjudicator Dr Jessel Murray.
Richarde’ Bereaux found his passion at age six, when he began experimenting on the national ins
Northumberland Gazette
Northumberland, England - Blending the traditional with Trinidad, youngsters from north Northumberland are taking part in the largest celebration of newly-composed music the UK has seen.
Drawn from Wooler’s Steel Quake and Ber
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelpan pioneer Anthony Williams ORTT (Order of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago) will be celebrating his 83rd birthday with a steelband concert in his honor. The gala event takes place at the St. James Amphitheatre, Weste
Read more…I saw an article on WST that Hell's gates from Antigua is the World's Oldest Steel Orchestra, TRUE OR FALSE? http://www.panonthenet.com/spotlight/antiguapan/
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Steelband class with Veron Henry (at front, in navy blue)
Below: Principal Armando Ramirez (left) with Veron Henry
Rochester New York, USA - Last month James Monroe High School welcomed a very special guest indee
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St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad and Tobago – On Wednesday June 4, 2014, at the Office of the Campus Principal, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, a formal ceremony saw the signing of a Memorandum
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eighteen steel orchestras will take to the Western Main Road, in St. James, Trinidad, on Sunday June 15th in the Steelband Parade from 3:00 p.m. as WeBeat 2014 comes to a close.
Participating steel orchestras—the majority o
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Ohio, USA - The back lawn of Woodlawn United Methodist Church was turned into a tropic beach barbeque as the Dover High School Steel Drum Band performed at the church’s barbeque event Saturday evening.
Performing an array of Calypso as
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The nine-day WeBeat St James Live Festival staged by the St James Community Improvement Committee (CIC) begins this evening and runs until June 15, at The Amphitheatre, Western Main Road, St James
Abington Patch
Delaware, USA - Peace Drums Project, an innovative music undertaking to create harmony and promote peace among Jewish, Christian and Muslim youth in Israel, hosted it’s 2nd annual Peace Drums Concert Event on Sunday, June 8, 2014, to
Read more…The producers of Pan! Our Music Odyssey have been creating recent waves on social media. They have started the first ever publically funded project in Trinidad and Tobago on popular international crowd funding site Indiegogo.
Although nearly comple
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Cayman Islands, W.I. - Sixteen-year-old Ethan Whittaker has been honored as Butterfield Young Musician of the Year 2014 for his performance on steel pan.
At the Young Musician of the Year competition at the Harquail Theatre last
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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Vandal(s) reportedly targeted Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra’s pan yard in Villa and destroyed several tyres on a trailer in the process.
The band’s spokesperson, Stafford Joseph said the damage to a container where used to store s
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Music of the diaspora marked the contribution of the UWI Intermediate Steel and Indian Classical Ensembles to the current series of musical recitals produced by the Department of Creative and Fes
The Intelligencer
Illinois, USA - For a student to learn the music of another culture is always intriguing, but to perform it in the very country where that music was born is something really special. And that is precisely what happened when a group
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - All roads lead to Point Fortin as Mayor Clyde Paul and his staff of councillors mark the 34th anniversary of the Borough.
This event, which is described as a mini-carnival, attracts more than 30
All Africa - The Herald
Zimbabwe - Caribbean Islanders, Trinidad and Tobago scored big at the recently held Harare International Carnival Street Party when they won two prestigious awards on Saturday night after the street parade.During a prize givin
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Parade Band’s Nearly $50K Float Stolen
Minnesota, USA - A popular parade band may have to go silent this summer because its float has gone missing.
The custom float that takes the Zuhrah Shrine Steel Drum Band to parades around the sta
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