The Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - Music lovers across T&T can look forward to May 25, for the launch of Imbizo Moyenne, the new album from Moyenne, touted as one of the best Caribbean jazz bands to come along in many years.
The band,
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Ontario, Canada - The sound of Kenrick Dookie's steel drumming was a new addition at this year's Canada Day celebration.
Dookie, 28, is a member of the Cambridge-based Pan Waves Steel Band that played at Sarnia's Canada Day bash
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Point Fortin Borough Day celebrations are considered by many as the biggest festival after the Carnival season, but once again festivities have been launched without the Government’s funding. Hundreds
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thursday June 13th has been designated “Pan Night” for WeBeat13. The annual WeBeat festival in St. James, north Trinidad, was originally inspired by then-Tourism and Industrial Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago (TI
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Montreal, Canada - On Sunday June 1, 2013 at York University in Montreal, Canada, renowned Montreal-based panist and arranger Salah Wilson—who is completing his Master’s degree in ethno-musicology at York—delivered to examiners, thesis advisers and a
The Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - "At age 11, Ishmael Williams is one of the youngest participants to be selected as Most Outstanding Student in the annual series of pan construction and tuning courses offered by Pan Development Unli
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Gill’s Pan Shop has been selected by the International Star for Leadership in Quality (ISLQ) Evaluation Committee, as proposed by BIDgroup (Brandname of the companies BID Business Initiative Direc
Read more…NEW YORK, United States, Friday May 17, 2013 - The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), has placed Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago on a watch list of countries that have failed to make the adequate copyright payments for U.S. musical comp
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Texas, USA - The inaugural semester of the Texas A&M Steel Band, named Maroon Steel, opened with a series of concerts in the Houston area performing at San Jacinto College Central on April 6 and Lone Star College-North Harris on April 7.
This was
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Pennsylvania, USA - Janera Solomon, the theater's executive director, wasn't content to just listen to the students rehearse. She picked up a pair of mallets and joined the students, bobbing along to the beat. As the daughter
Dai Ailian is China's legendary ballerina who was born in 1916 into an overseas Chinese family living in #Trinidad. Her years as a dance teacher and educator helped China build a generation of dancers, choreographers, and educators. She is known by #
I assume Mr Diaz and associates are using Pan Trinbago lawyers and resources to fight for re-election, is this lawful? they should be using their OWN resources.
Pan Trinbago funds is to take care of Pan Trinbago business, Mr Diaz and company re-elect
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England, UK - The internationally acclaimed Melodians Steel Orchestra departed London-Heathrow last night on board a Kenya Airways flight to Zambia to play at the British Embassy in Lusaka for the Queen’s Birthday Party. The orchestr
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - So impressed was First Lady of China, Madame Peng Liyuan yesterday with the performance of Exodus Steel Orchestra at the concert in her honour that she extended an invitation to the panists to visi
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Steeltown’s steelpan player
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - ....Wherever he was — at home on Francis Street or in class at Bennetto Elementary School — Dejehan "Lucky" Hamilton tapped on surfaces, kept a beat, made a racket.
His
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ..... Another creative genius who is still alive and living in the deep south is a man who is widely regarded as one of the greatest steelband arrangers of all time, Earl Rodney of Point Fortin.
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Ontario, Canada - The sounds of the Caribbean are returning to Brampton when the Steelpan Music Summer Camp returns on July 2.
Executive Director of the camp, Ed Peters, explained that the camp is organized and run by the Brampton
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Thursday, April 4 2013
PAN TRINBAGO has appealed the decision of a High Court judge, who in January ruled that two steelband members were eligible candidates for election to the office of the organisation’s Central Executive Committe
Read more…Jamaica Gleaner Marcia Rowe, Gleaner Writer
Bolstered by several costume changes and high-energy performances, the University of the West Indies (UWI) Panoriddim Steel Orchestra's Panfest 2013 was a tapestry of innovation and creativity. The third of
