Trinidad Express Newspapers
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
Pan Trinbago inc. wishes to advise its membership and the general public that no public forum was either held on or sanctioned to be held at the Silver Stars Pan Yard on the evening of Wednesday 09th April 2013 by the Association.
Further, Pan Trinb
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The Globe and Mail - June 19, 2013
Toronto school board saves music program
Toronto, Canada - The Toronto District School Board will save its cherished music program.
Trustees voted Wednesday night to balance its books by cutting nearly $30
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Culturama - Nevis’ Premiere summer Festival
St. Kitts/Nevis, W.I. - ....Mr. Manners has been involved in the preservation of Nevisian folk music for over five decades having joined the Carib Steel Orchestra in 1962 at the tender age o
Trinidad Express
By Louis B Homer South Bureau
It was the economic depression in Trinidad in the 1930s and the latent musical talent of young Afro-Trinidadians that gave birth to the steelpan as a unique musical instrument in Trinidad and Tobago whic
Brooklyn, New York - Renowned C.A.S.Y.M. (Caribbean American Sports and Youth Movement, Inc.) Steel Orchestra is at The Elim International Fellowship, at 20 Madison Street in Brooklyn on Easter Sunday on March 31, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Special guest cond
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - April marks the start of the “new” Pan Trinbago Pan in de Countryside series. The event commences on Saturday 6th April at the Tableland Recreation Centre, Tableland Extension Road, Tableland, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
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After the fourth steelband passed the judges during the Carnival Monday Night Steelband Competition in San Fernando, one woman said, “I am still waiting to hear a real band play.” Another said: “Is this all the bands in San Fernando
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The management of four-time National Panorama champion Solo Harmonites Steel Orchestra does not take the commitment of its members who represent the brand lightly, says operations manager Owen Serrette.
He said the band, in spite of
Read more…A message from Jacqueline Sealey
LAUNCH of CARIBnet!! NEW INITIATIVE FOR THE LIVE INTERACTION OF PANNISTS, from Northern Illinois University (NIU), The University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT), and, the UK at the Headquarters of JANET, at Didcot in Oxf
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Ohio, USA - The Dover High School Steel Band, under the direction of Joan Wenzel, will create an evening of warm-weather paradise for their annual Pantasia concert. The unique event will be held on Feb. 17, and will be a cel
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - World-renowned jazz pan player Andy Narell and his band put on the University of Calypso at the Learning Resource Centre at UWI, St Augustine campus last week.
The show was a resounding success as stellar
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Sterling Betancourt (pictured far right) is launching a calypso about TASPO that he’s written (which the ever-popular Crazy has contributed the vocals to) at the Trinidad High Commission in London on March 26th 2013.
The man is an octogenarian, but
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Success Stars Pan Sounds of Laventille has been invited back to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for more performances, after leaving patrons speechless when they performed at Centennial Olympic Park last
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As the unmistakable sound of pan continues to spread across the farthest reaches of the globe, it is perhaps worth pausing to take stock of these early pan pioneers. Beyond the members of Taspo and
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - National Panorama 2013 winner (Large Band) Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove will travel to Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, in November as part of its first prize winnings.
This announcement was m
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While the national Panorama competitions continue to flourish in Port-of-Spain, steelbands in San Fernando are struggling to find players to launch a big challenge. The present situation is not ov
