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Neville Blackman - Passages: Trinidadian transplant introduced Hamilton to sound of steel drums

TheSpec.com

Neville Blackman — March 20, 1931 to Dec. 23, 2013

Ontario, CANADA - Neville James Blackman is credited with being one of the key people who introduced the sound of the steel drum to Hamilton. So it was only fitting that those soothing, u

Carnival copyright redux by Mark Lyndersay

bitdepth

It shouldn't be surprising, given the NCC’s failure to hold a public consultation on the copyright issues that arose in 2013, to find the whole ugly mess bubbling up again.
Photographers who went to the NCC to seek accreditation for the 2014

Groovy Soca Steelband Competition & Fitness Chippin’ - All In A Monday Night’s Pan

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelbands will have two events in which to display their musical skills come Carnival Monday evening. One is the second edition of the Groovy Soca Steelband Competition in all Pan Trinbago Regions and the other, Health & Fi

...On The Greens the party goes on despite pan music

Trinidad Express

...Thousands of feters, grouped into several corporate and party crews, revelled under the scorching mid-afternoon sun to their favourite Soca artistes and DJs. At a first glance it seemed a huge victory for Pan Trinbago, scoring tha

Works of WST Forum Member featured in NY Daily News

Black History Month: New York celebrates African-American culture and heritage with an abundance of 2014 events

Info:To read Goddard’s “Singing Drum” Black History post and discussion, visit http://bit.ly/SingingDrum.

Read more: http://www.nydailyne

TUCO: $8M woeful - Carnival 2014

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

Petition for Duvone Stewart to perform on jazz main stage

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

WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON YOU KNOW OF THAT STARTED PLAYING WITH 3 STICKS.

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

birdsong offering students free music education programme

Trinidad Express Newspapers

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

Thumbs down for pan initiative

Trinidad Guardian
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

First Person: Lorna Green, founder/executive director, Cultural Academy for Excellence

WashingtonPost.com

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

Everard Leon - Music Maker - (The genesis of Dixieland)

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

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

“Mighty Sparrow” will be awarded the Order of T&T.

Acorn helps to get The Castle School's Panache steel band Barbados-bound

Thornbury News

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

Pan Splash fails to attract:

NORTHERN REGION Preliminaries: Small & Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Order of Appearance

NORTHERN REGION Preliminaries: Small & Medium Conventional Steel Orchestras - Order of Appearance - Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 2014

Global - Seventeen small and ten medium conventional steel orchestras will take centre stage as th

...Singer Seeger’s legacy extends throughout Maine and across the generations

Portland Press Herald

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

Defence Force’s absence disappoints Panorama fans

Trinidad Express Newspapers

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

Hear the sound of the drums from new group at SML

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

T&T steelpan newspaper history now on the Web

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,