Steel Pan the focus with Ricardo Greenaway - Rihanna Tops Tropicalfete CountDown with “Man Down”

New York, USA - Steel Pan was the focus at an international event – Tropicalfete Countdown 2011 Top 100 International Caribbean Songs for the year. Ricardo Greenaway, world-renowned steel pan percussionist, was given the mountainous task of performin

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Yale, Co-Op High students collaborate on ‘hip-hopera’ - Initial score in part by steelpan artist Andy Akiho

New Haven, Connecticut, USA -  Students at New Haven’s Cooperative Arts & Humanities Magnet High School will present the world premiere of “Broken Chains: A Gospel Hip-Hopera,” a musical written and composed by Yale graduate students, on Wednesday an

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Drums with 55-gallon voices

Drums with 55-gallon voices

Steel Pan Ensemble provides percussionist perspective on classic albums and pieces

The UConn Steel Pan Ensemble put on a show at Von der Mehden recital hall Sunday evening. The ensemble, consisting of 17 undergraduate stud

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Pans sang in Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica, W.I. - The congregation attending the Pan Extravaganza at the Kingston Parish Church on Sunday was treated to a holistic musical feast that covered the spectrum from classical through religious, ballads, reggae and soca music, sati

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Disowning Dr. Conrad Murray

As a Trinidadian, I am officially, on behalf of all Trinis, disowning Dr Conrad Murray. Like the Mighty Sparrow, he was born in Grenada and raised in Trinidad.

Since the Grenadians like to claim Sparrow, they can have that quack Dr Conrad Murray also.

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2012 TRINIDAD SOCA MUSIC RELEASES

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Let us be proud Copeland's a Trini - Diaz on development of G-Pan:

By Wayne Bowman

Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz believes the steelband fraternity and the nation at large should be thankful it was Prof Brian Copeland who developed the G-Pan and not someone in some foreign university.

Diaz also told the Express o

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Kingston Parish Church raises funds for Steel Orchestra

Kingston, Jamaica, W.I. - ....When Splash dropped in on rehearsals at the Kingston Parish Church Hall in the heart of the city, the sweet sounds of pan greeted us, as it filled the building, spilling over into the churchyard.
 

....For band member, 1

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"Pan For Punks...A Steelpan Tribute To The Ramones"

Just imagine if CBGB's were located on one of the Caribbean islands – it would sound exactly like Pan For Punks – A Steelpan Tribute to the Ramones , a one-of-a-kind CD in tribute to one of the most influential bands of all time: punk-rock legends Th

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Re: WST's "The History of SteelPan Time Line"

Why isn't George "Sonny" Goddard's passing mentioned in this "time line"? Why isn't he given credit for MUCH of the info posted, which are direct quotations from his book: "Forty Years In The Steelbands - 1939 - 1979"? Should his "death" receive the

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Govt sues 3 over G-Pan rights

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Steeldrum Shortage looms in Trinidad

Pan Trinbago has over the years managed to a great extent to impress upon the State the importance of new material in the production of steelband instruments. In order to assist in this regard the drum assembly plant at National Petroleum, Sea Lots,

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Is it all over for Notting Hill carnival?

Future of Europe’s largest outdoor festival is in doubt
after organisers quit over shortage of funds and volunteers

 

A chronic lack of funding, disagreements about the level of policing and internal disputes have put the future of the Notting Hill c

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Pan tuners fear the worst as drum dilemma worsens

Pan tuners fear the worst as drum dilemma worsens | The Trinidad Guardian

The nation's pan tuners are sounding the alarm that their livelihood is in jeopardy. Hundreds of pan tuners continue to be negatively affected by the continuing shortage of qua

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La Pierre takes Pan to China

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.  - Steelpan soloist extraordinaire Noel La Pierre departed Trinidad and Tobago en route to Shanghai, China to represent T&T steel pan culture at the 13^th Shanghai performing Arts Festival (SPAF) 2011. Recently, La Pierre was f

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"DRIVE" SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER, CLIFF MARTINEZ AND HIS USE OF THE BASS PAN

Did anyone see this interview? Notice the bass pans in the background? This percussionist/composer appreciates the unique tone that can only come from a bass pan. Oh how I long for the day when we (as a country) learn to truly value our national inst

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State of Emergency in Trinidad and Tobago

What has been called a “limited state of emergency” has been issued in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago on Monday August 22, 2011.  It gives the authorities special, temporary, legal powers to arrest and search citizens without a warrant.

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New Screening for "Classical Steel" at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival

 

Classical Steel will now be screened an hour earlier on each day: 12 noon on Saturday 24th September and 10am on Sunday 2nd October. The venue is Movie Towne, Port of Spain.

 

Classical Steel

Produced and Directed by John E. H. Barry

Trinidad and T

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Calypsociation Steelband – concert marking release of ‘Pan People’

Calypsociation Steelband – concert marking release of ‘Pan People’

 

Calypsociation Steelband has released their second album, ‘Pan People,’ after more than two years of rehearsals and a debut album, Made it, dedicated to the innova

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Classical Steel at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival

Classical Steel

Produced and Directed by John E. H. Barry

Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival

Saturday 24^th September, 1pm at

Sunday 2nd October 11am

Movie Towne, Port of Spain

This documentary film looks at the steelband in the role of symphony orche

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