Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove leaves for Nigeria, Africa on November 19 for this year’s Abuja carnival.
The reigning National Panorama champion is the latest of steel orchestras to make this cultura
Read more…Hamilton , CA - In three weeks time, Dejehan Hamilton will introduce an instrument to a part of the world where its never yet been performed. |
The Steel Drum Orchestra will be featured in an international documentary on the impact of the steel drum.
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From the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago to Cal State Long Beach’s Carpenter Center, the power of steel pan
Read more…22 June 1948: Number 11 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music
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The Guardian, Wednesday 15 June 2011
When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, a new Britain was born. On board was the first wave of We
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Delaware, USA - College is all about experimenting, right? I believe our college years are the perfect time to explore academically, socially and creatively. I’ve done my best to step outside of my comfort zone and try new things since com
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Delaware, USA - Traveling with 24 cases of musical instruments in a foreign country was not an easy feat, says Music Professor Harvey Price, who returned last week from his trip to Israel. Price boarded the plane to Israel with so many ins
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Two evenings this past weekend were host to exemplary Pan performances in final round competition in the soloist, ensemble and single pan band categories of Pan Is Beautiful XII. It began with a dual triumph for the musician
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Tobago, W.I. - Two Tobago schools will be receiving a donation of more steel pans tomorrow from the Tobago Multi-Cultural Unit.
Rennison ‘Pecky’ Quashie, who heads the unit, told Tobago News that Mt Gomery Primary School and the Plymouth
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Global - It's been a tough year for Trinidad and Tobago. Tourism is way down, and its members of parliament are still fighting over disputed elections last December. But worst of all is the
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Ohio, USA - The Summit Academy has a problem.
The Akron middle and high school that addresses the social, emotional and academic needs of students with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders and related disorders has a Steel Band Program th
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Topping the preliminary round, the Codrington Pan Family scored eight points more than their nearest rival Tropical Angel Harps, to emerge with the highest score at the weekend’s Orchestra Class in the Nationa
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Reigning national Panorama champion Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove will make a four-day tour to the African continent later this month as part of its first prize.
Arranger Len “Boogsie” Sharpe will lead a co
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Music was the language of celebration for the 84 Pan-in-Schools workshop participants who showed off their talents in a spectacular graduation ceremony held at the Queen’s Hall Auditorium recently
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by: Mariam Baldeh
British Columbia, Canada - College dropout and proud father Gage Averill — when he’s not busy as dean of the Arts faculty at UBC — is a world-renowned ethnomusicologist. To find out exactly what that means, and how mus
Read more…The intellectual property (IP) issues that have plagued the steelpan, a musical instrument created from discarded metal oil barrels by impoverished musicians, strike at the hear
Read more…Long-time panist and rhythm man Rudy “Indian” Bowen died of cancer on the night of Thursday October 24, 2013. “Indian” (Rudy) was an early member of Tripoli Steelband in the early 50s, then went on to England and played with various groups there, th
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Late steelpan pioneer and innovator Bertram “Bertie” Marshall received a great posthumous honour yesterday when the Old St Joseph Road in Success Village, Laventille was renamed “Bertie Marshall
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Reading, England, U.K. - Since its formation in 1997, the Reading All Steel Pan Orchestra (RASPO) has become one of UK’s leading lights in steel pan music.
Taking its name from the Trinidad All Steel Pan Orchestra [TASPO], which fir
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late Pat Bishop, musical director of the Lydian Singers, will be remembered this weekend, as Republic Bank Exodus pays tribute to her at this year’s Steelband Music Festival, to be held at the
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Toronto, Canada - For Patrick “Panman Pat” McNeilly, singing and playing to musical beats was more appealing that walking the beat.
After four years on the job as a Toronto Police Service constable assigned to 14 Division, McNeilly resign
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