The Trinidad & Tobago National Music Festival – Pan Is Beautiful XII will be held later this year under the banner “Respect The Steelpan… Play It With Pride”.
Produced by Pan Trinbago Inc., the Festival is divided into four (4) categories ie Soloists
The Trinidad Guardian
Barataria, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - US Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Ajamu Nyomba, will be the guest speaker at Studio 66’s Pan focus today, [Wednesday July 10, 2013]. A former Solo Harmonites player, Nyomba will speak on Steelbands i
Jamaica Observer
Jamaica, W.I. - In a culture dominated by hardcore reggae and dancehall rhythms, St Vincent and the Grenadines steel pan players Reajhaun Baptiste and Rodney Small said it took some convincing to win over the local audiences.
Bapti
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Youth Today
New York, USA - A shabby community center on the first floor of one of the 12 buildings that make up the vast Gov. Alfred E. Smith public houses is where social workers and teachers are hoping music can break down cultural barriers.
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Trinidad & Tobago - Government may have to start from scratch on the construction of a headquarters for PanTrinbago, despite spending approximately $4 million on the existing structure at Orange Grove, Tacarigua. Minister of Art
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Grand Cayman - The National Children’s Festival of the Arts took a tuneful turn on 29 April with a special steel pan competition.
The Mary Miller Hall in Red Bay hosted the contest, which was of a high standard.
Cayman Prep and Hi
Read more…When Steel Talks extends congratulations to PanTime Steel Orchestra on their 2013 St. Lucia junior panorama victory.
by the Cultural Development Foundation
A new Junior Panorama 2013 Champion has been determined!
Caribbean Metals Pantime Steel Orch
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Airforce Two, bearing US vice-president Joe Biden and his 150-member delegation, will touch down at Piarco Airport’s south terminal at 4 pm on Monday. At a media conference yesterday, Government Infor
Read more…St. Joseph, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Atlanta Networks, Inc. presents “Panwomen is Boss,” an All-Female Pan Jazz Concert, on Sunday, July 28, 2013, at the La Joya Auditorium (opposite the Jinnah Memorial Mosque), Eastern Main Road, St. Joseph, Tr
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You may have heard that it’s hard for a jazz musician to find respect beyond what seems like a fixed number of close followers and students. Musicians can ignore that situation, or respond to it. Etienne Charles’s new recording, “Creo
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Belmont, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Just last month, 11-year-old Ishmael Williams of St Margaret’s Boys’ Anglican School emerged as the most outstanding student in a pan construction and tuning course offered by Pan Development
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Despite the fact that they are not sure if they still have a sponsor, Skiffle Steel, of Coffee Street, San Fernando, came to Charlotte Street in Port of Spain and gave northerners a
The Vincentian
SJCK gets new steel pans
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - The student body of the SJCK celebrated the arrival of new pans for the St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown Pan Starz Orchestra, to the tunes of ‘We Jammin’, ‘Billy Jean’, ‘Diffe
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Oakdale, California, USA - Oakdale’s got talent. In fact, a bit of the island calypso sound performed by young Oakdale musicians will soon be featured on the Gallo Center for the Arts stage.
....“The kids played well and handled th
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Bermuda - Bermuda’s first Pan Jazz Festival takes place next month, celebrating one of the world’s most versatile instruments.
Organised by Somersfield Academy and Atlantic Publishing, the festival will include the 18-piece Somersfield Steel Pan
England, UK - 'Dimbaya' translates as "to celebrate." The past week has involved a fair few celebrations - some
London, England, UK - The sound of steel drums echoed through the East End on Saturday evening as performers staged a charity concert.
The Ebony Steel Band took to the stage at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Butcher Row, Limehouse, for an e
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GETTING THE BEAT: Musician Ted Canning leads a group of Byron-Bergen fifth-graders in a traditional Trinidadian steel drum song as part of a grant-funded Artists in Education project.
Bergen - NY, USA — Trinidad and Tobago may be a long way from B
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St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. – As part of its mandate to support culture within the Tri-Island State, the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) has announced its contribution to Carnival 2013, focusing mostly on the Panorama and Steel Band Competitions a
City University London
England, UK - Gibraltar’s first steel band made its debut in April under the direction of City PhD student Rachel Hayward. Royal Gibraltar Regimental Band Leader, Craig Philbin, aims to nurture community music-making on the Roc
