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Caribbean Jazz quartet Panoramic View with Panist Aaron Abrahamson Cote takes part in International Jazz Day 2014

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

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Jamming the pan - Cayman Islands

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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Steelpan Controversy -- Mayor: We ought to be proud of it - Point Fortin Borough Day

Trinidad Express

..“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

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Winning Buxton Steel Orchestra gets gov’t. boost

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

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Car ploughs through pan side - ...one hospitalised, several injured

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 25^th anniversary celebration of Smokey & Bunty, a c

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Pan Trinbago owes panists $2m for Pan is Beautiful XII

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

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UKIP Carnival's Endurance Steel Band Performs on BBC’s Newsnight

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

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ALL ABOUT ANTIGUA HISTORY OF THE STEELBAND

We always talk about Trinidad History of the Steelband, but it seems like the island of Antigua has a lot of history of Pan, Can we get a Discussion going on this? It looks like there is a lot of information that the Panmen/women would like to share

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Australia and New Zealand launch major Strategic Steelband Initiative

Australia - In April 2013 at the 1^st Australia Steelband Festival, the world got a glimpse into the tremendous progress pan has made on the distant shores of Australia, New Zealand and even Oman.

There one witnessed wonderful pan performances of se

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Binghamton High School steel drum band to release CD

 

Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) The Binghamton High School “Juice Blenders” Steel Drum Band announced the release of its fourth CD.

The CD, named “Generations,” features student band members from 2007 through 2014.

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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CLAUDE GONZALES?

Does anybody knows what happened to Claude Gonzales? This Forum has not seen or heard from him or about him since after the 2014 Steelband Panorama. ALL-POINTS BULLETIN FOR CLAUDE GONZALES.

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Exodus Steel Orchestra arrives for carnival in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation

Zimbabwe - A musical orchestra group from Trinidad and Tobago, Exodus Orchestra Steel, has arrived in Zimbabwe as part of the Harare International Carnival.

The group members, who were received at the Harare Interna

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Caribbean awards for panist, scientist and activist

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Professor Liam Teague said T&T has only scratched the surface in discovering the potential of the national instrument the steelband. Teague, one of the three recipients of the 2014 Anthony N Sabga

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Steel band helps celebrate Empire Day

Henley Standard

Shiplake, England - A Pub celebrated multicultural Britain with its own twist on a long-forgotten tradition.

The Plowden Arms in Reading Road, Shiplake, held its second annual Empire Day on Saturday with live music, entertainment and

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Point mayor: No Borough Day without pan

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Point Fortin Mayor Clyde Paul says there will be no Borough Day celebrations without T&T’s national instrument, the steelpan. Speaking on Saturday night, Paul adamantly declared that steelpan will

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Pan Fried Steel to heat up Vienna venue June 21

Lewiston Sun Journal

Maine, USA - Pan Fried Steel, a community steel band based in Yarmouth, will be the next group to perform at the Vienna Union Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21. The band started about 14 years ago when parents of North Yarmout

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Trinidad pioneers online 'knowledge network'

By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education correspondent

Trinidad is going to have the first online learning network designed for an entire country

Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies is pioneering an ambitious online learning project.

Coursera, one of t

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Eight top steelbands take stage at NAPA

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation (LSFF) will in May present a concert titled 8 of Hearts at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port-of-Spain. The concert features reigning Na

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Liam Teague: ‘We have just begun to scratch the surface’ of steelpan’s potential

NIU Today

Illinois, USA - Liam Teague, head of steelpan studies and an associate professor in the NIU School of Music, was named the 2014 Laureate in Arts and Letters by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards For Excellence.

Click below for the speech

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Friends celebrate Hugh Borde at 81 - T&T’s pan ‘Liberace’

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The names Hugh Borde, Tripoli Steelband and Wladziu “Liberace” Valentino may not be familiar to many young pan musicians, musicians in general or random adults, but to the history of pan, hopefully

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