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Marathon band director expanding steel drum corps | Middle Keys

Key West Citizen

Florida, USA - The Florida Keys have rich, feel-good, island-inspired musical roots, from Coffee Butler and Howard Livingston to Key West’s adopted son, Jimmy Buffett, who died Sept. 1

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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of performing artist Denyse Plummer on her passing

The life of Denyse Plummer, over five decades in song

CNC3 editor

Denyse Plummer, a former pop singer who switched to calypso and later gospel in a musical career that spanned more than five decades, died today at age 69. 

She had been ailing for

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Pan Tuner

Hello pan community. I recently got my 1980's Kim Loy Wong double tenor tuned by OV Solomon. He did a super excellent job in restoring both tonality and note accuracy to my double tenors.

He is located currently in western North Carolina but his tun

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Pan and Carnival on D Runway during NYC’s Fashion Week

Mum and Me Productions aims to bring vibrant energy - Earl Brooks, Jr. featured

New York, USA - For those not in Trinidad and Tobago to have a taste of Pan and Carnival for 2024, there is that opportunity to have both, if you are in New York come S

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‘Exciting times but long road ahead for pan’

The Trinidad Express

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There are exciting times ahead for pan but the road won’t be easy.

This is according to Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore (pictured), who said she was pleased the authorities are showing int

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Mesquite Band director carries on tradition of Tobago with steel drum band

Mesquite, Texas, USA - For the last six weeks, Steve Kath has directed Poteet High School’s new steel drum band.

Starting at the beginning of the semester, Kath has held multiple rehearsal

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Thank you, much appreciated, Claude Gonzales

When Steel Talks is expressing much appreciation to longstanding When Steel Talks-forum member Claude Gonzales. He exercised his option to celebrate World Steelpan Day, by financially supporting When Steel Talks’ global steelpan music network initiat

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UN declares August 11 World Steelpan Day

Loop News Saint Lucia

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Fruits of Carriacou’s Summer Steelband Programme

Ministry of Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs & Local Government

Carriacou, Grenada, W.I. - Grenada’s Ministry of Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs & Local Government rec

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Shelby County Public Library presents Steel Appeal

The Sentinel-News

Shelbyville, Indiana, USA - The Shelby County Public Library presents Steel Appeal on July 27 from 6-7 p.m. on the front lawn. Steel Appeal, a steel drum band from Campbellsville, will present an exciting musical exper

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Well I hear so much promises and plans surrounding this WORLD STEELPAN DAY, if I wasn't a REAL TRINIDADIAN ah would believe all the HYPE ...

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UTT PATRON OF THE ARTS BURSARY 2023

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SHESO trains 41 more young panists

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, W.I. - The Sion Hill Euphonium Steel Orchestra (SHESO) started its July/ August pan training programme back in 1995.

And, to date, over 150

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Commemorating World Steelpan Day the full story

Bertel Gittens the man behind the Commemorating World Steelpan Day World Steelpan Thrust 

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Pan Masters Steel Orchestra brings the vibe to Caribbean Cultural Showcase in Washington, DC

Washington, D.C., USA - It was indeed a memorable occasion on Sunday October 1, 2023 for all participants in the Caribbean Cultural Showcase, including the Pan Masters Steel Orchestra of Wa

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BERTEL GITTENS has a lot of work to do: All over the world they are having PANORAMAS and not STEELPANORAMAS ...

It will take decades for the AMERICAN STEELDRUM MUSIC MOVEMENT to switch to the NEW BRANDING -- if they ever do.And because of advancements in technology ... we will lose that war. But the insular thinking always dominates PAN PROGRESS.

Ah see ah man

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I used to see PAN TASTIC and SALISHA JAMES praising and praising and recurring decimal praising BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE as the greatest PAN TRINBAGO PRESIDENT EVER ...

... but after BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE betrayed them and spat them out like SUNFLOWER SEED SHELLS in a MONKEY'S MOUTH, they put their tails between their legs and disappeared from ALL PAN FORUMS. I think that I am the SOLE SURVIVOR left fighting this NE

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Ground breaking solo symphony concert in Riebeek-Kasteel, South Africa

The Newspaper

Riebeek-Kasteel, South Africa - When the sounds of newly commissioned music specially composed for Solo Symphony fill the NG Church building in Riebeek Kasteel on August 20^th, history will be made in many respects.

For the first time

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The steel pan is more than a vacation sound to Joy Lapps — it’s about the joy of self-expression

Toronto Star

Lapps is one of the few women to specialize in steel pan or steel drum. She will share her passion with the Toronto Jazz Festival

Toronto, Canada - ....“For me, it’s about — in whatever work that I do — seeing how I can centre women’s

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Work on Desperadoes Steel Orchestra Pan Theatre completed

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Work on the Desperadoes Pan Theatre has been completed, the Urban Development Corporation (Udecott) confirmed via

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