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New Rochelle BID Presents Music on the Green 2012: with Pantonic Steel Orchestra today, August 2

NewRochelleTalk.com

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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PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar hopes steelpan finds use at US Symphony

CTNTWorld.com

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she hopes steelpan music will soon become part of the repertoire of the National Symphony Orchestra of the United States. This, as the Prime Minister hosted the

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Time to tender for Carnival? Minister Lincoln Douglas causes a stir...

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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John Lewis Bluewater donates £2,000 to Greenhithe primary school to start steel pan band

This Is Local London

London, England  - John Lewis Bluewater has awarded a Greenhithe primary school £2,000 to start a steel pan band. Stone St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, in Hayes Road, will use the cash to buy equipment for the band.

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A show of musical excellence - a birdsong steel orchestra music academy initiative

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

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NIU steel drum musician Cliff Alexis collects two Emmy nominations for ‘Hammer on Steel’

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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Al O’Connor will retire from teaching Birch Creek students in percussion and steel pan after 29 years

Bangin’ the drum for 29 years

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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Festival Steel Band night a bust! - no-show of bands - Tortola, BVI

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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Local steel bands in cash crunch - Cayman Islands

Cayman 27 News

Cayman Islands - Local steel bands are facing a cash crunch that may prevent them from defending their Caribana Championship in Canada. Members of Panoramers, Pandemix and Pantastics all fear they will not be able to make the trip

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LIME and Digicel row over sponsorship rights re: ...the newly renamed Digicel Halcyon Steel Orchestra

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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Mountaineers bring calypso-style steel drum beat to Smithsonian Folklife Festival - Ellie Mannette

WVU Today

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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Orphans keep the steel pan music alive

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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Antigua & Barbuda Pan Association Denies role in 2011 Panorama Decision

Caribarena Antigua

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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Culture minister visits panyard as Phase II celebrates 40 years

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - New Arts & Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas paid an impromptu visit to Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove’s panyard on Saturday night. A surprised Phase II leader Len “Boogsie” Sharpe and

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Panectar - No Pan until next year

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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"PAN EXPO 2012" ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Old Boys High Field 12noon to 7pm

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

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St Vincent and the Grenadines 2nd Generation (SV2G) launches School of Steelpan in Wycombe, UK

Calypso sounds from under Abbey Way flyover

By Lawrence Dunhill

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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WVU Steel (started by Ellie Mannette) impresses in Washington, DC

DiverseEducation.com

Land-grant College Anniversary Celebration Includes Cultural Dimension

Washington D.C., USA - Considering the steel pan drum originated in Trinidad and Tobago, few people associate the state of West Virginia with steel drum band

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We need to think big -- Bhoe at SteelFesTT:

By Gary Cardinez -- Trinidad Express

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THE PASSING OF ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE PAN FAMILY

It is when great sadness that I announce the passing of Dominique. Dominique was the daughter of Margret Kathy Clarke, former Secretary of United States Steel Band Association Inc. Dominique played pan with Metro Steel Orchestra, Umoja and Despers US

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