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MOUNT MARINERS STEEL BAND
While we were maturing academically and spiritually, we were also, at the same time, evolving culturally. The Abbey School boasted the very first School-based steelband in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Claudine Marshall, the daughter of pan legend Bertie Marshall, who died last Wednesday, said yesterday the $75,000 given to the family yesterday by Government could not comp
Read more…The Ochil Steel Band is set to be formed at Lornshill Academy, with steel drums on their way from the Caribbean island of Trinidad.
The band is the brainchild of Lornshill Academy music teacher, Maureen Howitt, who managed to obtain the drums thanks
Read more…Trinidad Guardian
Two steelpan virtuosos of contrasting styles delivered enriching music with a remarkable sense of harmony and rhythm, that yet again demonstrated the musical possibilities of the instrument, to an almost full house of appreciative p
Read more…by Sunity Maharaj
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There are some things for which one must pause. Pause—even from such enticing distractions as men without briefs, legal one
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Bottle and spoon, grater, scratchers and wood blocks are essentials when paranderos go paranging. Contemporary bands have incorporated the flute, electric bass, Latin percussions and the steelpan in its ensemble. Now, the Na
Read more…Newsday - Trinidad & Tobago
ADMISSION that Pan Trinbago adopts a liberal approach to interpreting its constitution so as to allow greater participation by steelband lovers, was made yesterday by Pan Trinbago’s general secretary, Richard Forteau.
Fort
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fifty unsponsored steel orchestras received cheques to help them prepare for Panorama 2013 from Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Foundation on Tuesday evening at Scotia Centre, Park Street, Port of Spain.
This year being the
Read more…Trinidad Newsday - Saturday, September 22 2012
Former House of Assembly representative, Beverley Ramsey-Moore, has tossed her hat into the ring to become president of Pan Trinbago when the organisation holds its triannual elections on October 28.
Ram
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Trinidad Express
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Five-time Calypso Monarch Leroy Calliste (Black Stalin) is currently putting lyrics to Len "Boogsie" Sharpe's melody for his 2013 song for five-time Panorama winners Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove.
Stalin s
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St. Lucia, W.I. - The Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) is getting set to host a major steel pan consultation. The activity which should have taken place this week has been postponed however.
The consultation was planned to help
Read more…FROM: George D. Goddard
TO:The Entire Global Steelband and Steel Drum/Pan Community
Re: A Call To End School Violence - The “Twenty 6® Steelband and Pan Benefit CD” and the “Twenty 6® Steelband and Pan Benefit Concert” - Honoring the Sandy Hook V
Read more…Trinidad Express
For over 50 years the world enjoyed the scintillating music of Trinidad's steelband. Audiences all over the world were spellbound and amazed that such a rich tonal quality of music could come from discarded steel drums.
After decades
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago is in crisis. That’s the view of former Pan Trinbago executive member Beverly Ramsey-Moore, who is seeking election as president of the organisation. Elections for a new Pan Trinbago
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Belmont, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan-Demonium Steel Orchestra’s panyard at 3 Norfolk Street is being upgraded, and on 28th November 2012, the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure hosted a ceremony to mark the completion of an important phase of th
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7 News Belize
Belize - 25 members of the Pantempers Steel Orchestra returned to Belize this morning - after a 15-day performing tour of Taiwan.
They were a part of the 2012 Latin American and Caribbean Exhibition - where they presented Belizean cul
Read more…Due to unavoidable curcumstances, United States Steel Band Association Inc. (USSA) show "Pan Fusion scheduled for October 20th, 2012 is postponed until April 13 th, 2013.
Thank you.
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Pan Trinbago in disarray again
By Lara Pickford-Gordon Sunday, December 2 2012 PAN TRINBAGO’S membership is in uproar once again. This time it is because regional elections, called for last Wednesday, failed to take place due to lack of quorums and |
Twenty-six steel pans were delivered recently to Cumnock Academy – not for cooking, but for music.
Earlier this year, Cumnock pupils made a 400-mile round trip to the first ever Scottish Steel Pan Festival in Nairn, Aberdeenshire. They spent the da
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