CBS Minnesota
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
Appalachian State University News
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
Rhode Island, USA - The University of Rhode Island (URI) will present steel pan artist and composer Aaron Abrahamson Cote with his Caribbean Jazz quartet Panoramic View in a free concert on International Jazz Day 2014. The band will feature works com
Cayman 27
Cayman Islands - There’s nothing quite like the sound of a steel pan band. Young pan-jammers from all over the island put their sticks into action for a steel pan competition.
Schools from all around showed their talents off Thursday night
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..“We are celebrating our 34th year with these types of celebrations, and 25 years of Pan on the Move. While everybody in Trinidad and Tobago and all over the world is trying to compete, we ought to be very proud, this is something w
Kaieteur News Online
Guyana, SA - Decked out in sleek red shirts, black waistcoats and jeans with a white tie to crown it off, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Buxton Pride Steel Orchestra once again captivated its audience at a special
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A performance by Witco Desperadoes ended before it started on Saturday. Just before 9 pm, moments before the band was scheduled to perform at the 25th anniversary celebration of Smokey & Bunty, a c
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago still owes $2.1 million in prize money and trophies to steel orchestras and participants of the Pan is Beautiful XII national steelband festival, held in November 2013. Now five months
The Huffington Post UK
London, ENGLAND - UKIP’s (UK Independence Party) Croydon carnival, which ended in carnage on Tuesday before Nigel Farage had even arrived, had a breakout star as the steel band that refused to play for the party got a gig on Ne
