Trinidad Newsday By JULIEN NEAVES
THE ALLOCATION given to the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) for Carnival 2014 is “woefully short”, president Lutalo “Brother Resistance” Masimba declared yesterday.
He said TUCO would have liked $2
The Tobago News
Tobago, W.I. - A petition is underway calling for Tobagonian panist Duvone Stewart to perform on the main stage during the 2014 Tobago Jazz Experience.
More than 240 people have already signed the petition which will be sent to the o
I spoke to Spongy this morning and he said that the first he knew of was the Bonaparte Bros, my comrade Cecil said that Steve Regis was the first, Do you know of who was the first or who you know of that played with 3 Sticks first? (good info for th
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As an expansion of its existing efforts, the birdsong steelband is from this month offering a free after-school music education programme for early teens and pre-teens.
The after-school programme
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DAVID CUFFY
Pan enthusiast and marketing specialist Dennis Ramdeen said: “Pan on the Avenue on Carnival Monday night was painful for me. Steel orchestras spend so much time on eight minutes of music that they can't learn another s
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Interview by Lystra Lashley
My daughter, Malika, played a significant role in my decision to establish the Cultural Academy for Excellence, an arts-in-education program. At age 6, Malika started piano lessons and loved it until sh
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was Carnival Monday shortly after World War 2. The newly formed steelband players who called themselves, The Boys from Iwo Jima, but was dubbed “The White Boys from Corbeaux Town,” led by Ernes
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Thornbury, ENGLAND - A Thornbury- based steel band is planning a cultural visit to the West Indies.
The Castle School’s steel pan group Panache is travelling to Barbados to play in hotels, at a prestigious reception for the British Hi
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Global - Seventeen small and ten medium conventional steel orchestras will take centre stage as th
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He inspired a coast-based steel band, helped write workers’ songs and made music fun for kids.
Maine, USA - In the fall of 1954, Pete Seeger began his long-running column “Appleseeds” in Sing Out! Magazine. He dedicated it to
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There were gasps of disappointment when it was announced that the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra would not be participating in the preliminary round of the national steelband pa
Smith Mountain Eagle
Virginia, USA - Inside the Smith Mountain Lake Gallery on a bitterly cold Saturday, Richard Rudolph directs a group of 15-20 adults thumping on brightly colored drums from the Island of Trinidad to bring a new sound to SML. In a
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The history of steelpan as chronicled in Trinidad newspapers is now only a click away. As a result of a grant from UWI and collaboration between students at UWI and the UWI library, more than 4,
This year has seen a proliferation of pan songs like no other. Already there are well over 50 songs and the list keeps growing every day.
Every year new composers and sing
Read more…Was Silver Stars hired to play music for Russell carter "Gulliver travel" or did Silver Stars ask Russell Carter to bring their mas with them?
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By COREY CONNELLY - Trinidad Newsday
The involvement of “big money” in Carnival has, to some extent, minimised the importance of calypso as an accepted traditional artform, says university lecturer Dr Louis Regis.
Head of the Department of Literary,
Read more…Missouri, USA - Percussion students at Missouri Southern State University plan to organize a community-based steel drum ensemble that will perform concerts in Joplin.
“We’re excited, and everybody we talk to is excited about this,” said Brian Fronzagl
