Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
They could hardly “hablan espanol” but 13 young panists captured the hearts of audiences at the Iguazu In Concert, International Festival of Children and Youth Orchestras and Choirs held recently in Iguazu, Argentina.
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A number of years ago, Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove rocked the Queen’s Park Savannah at the National Panorama final playing Birthday Party. Last Saturday night, Hamilton Street in Woodbrook rocked
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Transparency, integrity issues blamed
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Two members of the Pan Trinbago central executive have resigned with immediate effect, citing an absence of transparency and integrity as reasons for their dep
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New Rochelle, New York, USA - The 16-piece steelband orchestra, five-time champion of the prestigious Panorama competition, performs an astounding array of musical selections – from Caribbean to jazz, R&B, popular and rap on steel
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By Wayne Bowman - Trinidad Express
Recently installed Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism, Dr Lincoln Douglas left listeners perplexed when he said during the launch of Tribe Mas Band's C2K13 presentation Butterflies, Beasts, Bacchanal on Satur
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Stone St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, in Hayes Road, will use the cash to buy equipment for the band. |
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The recent Birdsong annual Scholarship Benefit Concert was one of the best productions staged at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium of the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA) since its openin
NIU Today
Illinois, USA - The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has nominated “Hammer on Steel,” a two-program documentary created by The University of Akron, for eight Emmy awards for the 2011 broadcast year.
NIU’s Cliff Alex
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Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, USA - As the Percussion and Steel Band Academy students arrive at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor, they begin meeting new mentors, making new friendships, learning new music, ex
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Virgin Islands News Online
Tortola, British Virgin Islands - A night that was scheduled to feature several local and regional steel bands was a bust, where there were no performances by any steel bands and no announcement from the festival committee
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Antigua Observer
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - A showdown is brewing between communications giants Digicel and LIME as the latter contests Digicel’s title sponsorship of the newly renamed Digicel Halcyon Steel Orchestra.
On Monday, LIME, the title spons
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West Virginia, USA - Surely you haven’t heard “Country Roads” quite like this.
The sounds of every Mountaineer’s favorite John Denver song are resonating through the nation’s capital in an Afro-Caribbean flavor, courtesy of the West Virgi
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by NCN Guyana
Guyana - Orphans of the St. John Bosco Orphanage Plaisance have been afforded the opportunity to keep the steel pan art form alive as the Tina Insanally Foundation moves to fund the initiative.
The foundation’s new band room ensures per
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St. John’s, Antigua, W.I. - The Antigua and Barbuda Pan Association (ABPA) has said that it had no part in the revised decision that placed both LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra [HGSO] and Hadeed Group of Company’s AMP Halcyon in f
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To Our Members and Friends
I would like to say thank you for all your support throughout the years. It is with deep regret that we have come to this final descion that there will be no "PANECTAR" on the road this year. Some of the band members and
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1. Pan Sonatas
2. Ujamaa Pan Sound
3. Higher Levin
4. Crossfire Steel Orchestra
5. New York Pan Stars
6. Adlib Steel Orchestra
7. Utopia Pan Soul
8. C.A.S.Y.M.
9. Harmony Music Makers
10. Metro Steel Orchestra
11. St
Wycome, England, U.K. -- Wycombe is fast becoming a ‘hub’ for calypso music thanks to the launch of a school dedicated to the steelpan drum.
The town’s MP and mayor went along to celebr
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