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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
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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
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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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Minnesota, USA - ....some good news to report about a story from earlier this week. Police in Crystal say they’ve found a parade float that had been stolen.
The Zurah Shriner Steel Drum Band uses the float for parades throughout the s
Nigeria - In meeting up with its corporate social responsibility, the Africa-Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan Development Company (ATTSDC) donated a complete set of steelpans for a fifteen-man band to the Nigerian Military School (NMS). In a presentation
I definitely will Nominate George D Goddard aka "The Ghost who Talks" for President of Pantrinbago, he is very Knowledgeable and I believe he will do a Great job (at least better than the present Pres' MR Diaz). I will also give MR Ian Franklin a Po
Read more…Fire completely destroyed the Flabej Steelband, Panyard and Panschool at the corner of Park and Abercromby Streets, Port of Spain around 2.00am on May 1st 2014.
It is believed that the origins of the fire was an electrical fault.
The school has been
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation (LSFF) will be once again bringing eight of the country’s top steelbands together at a concert titled “8 of Hearts” this weekend at the National Academ
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North Carolina, USA - Clean and press your Hawaiian shirt and great ready for an incredible night of steel pan music when the Steely Pan Steel Band and alumni perform in a free concert Saturday, April 26.
The progra
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North Carolina, USA - Mark Garner creates a handmade, one-of-a-kind product.
But he doesn’t consider his work to be art — rather to be an artist’s tool.
His handpan instruments are not the painting, but the paintbrush, he s
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California, USA - The annual CSULB (California State University, Long Beach) Steel Drum concert Caribbean Extravaganza gives way to a massive steel orchestra on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 p.m. The concert features the CSULB Steel Drum Orchestra during
Someone posted this Video of Pan Yard making Steel Pans or Steel Drums, and I couldn't help but post it on WST for an open Discussion, Is this the right way, the correct way or the best way to make them (I am hoping to learn some thing or things fro
Read more…Happy Birthday to Robert (Bullet) Thwaites, one of the original Pan am North Stars members (in their prime) who used to stand on a box to play the Bass. Bullet is still in the Steel band business, Teaching and Playing the Instrument, Happy Birthday a
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The musical collaboration between legendary South African trumpeter, composer and singer, Hugh Masekela, and the Siparia Deltones Steel Orchestra has been described as a melding of musical forms
Congrats Cecil, I wish you and your Wife many many more, and keep them Discussions coming
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Chicago, USA - From May 5–13, 2014, the Hamburg Committee of CSCI is sponsoring Sullivan High School’s Steel Drum Corps visit to Altona Gymnasium school in Hamburg as part of the 20th anniversary of the sister city
