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SHESO trains 41 more young panists
Graduates of the 2023 SHESO Training Programme display their certificatesSaint 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
Pan Masters Steel Orchestra at 2023 World Culture Festival
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 20th, 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
New digs: The newly built Desperadoes panyard on George Street in Port of Spain.Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Work on the Desperadoes Pan Theatre has been completed, the Urban Development Corporation (Udecott) confirmed via
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Striking the Happy Notes - ONU Steel Band finds its groove
ONU.edu
Ohio, USA - When you hear the strains of a steel drum band, you’re instantly transported to a happier place and relaxed state of being.
....Waters is the director of Ohio Northern University’s Steel Band. Since she started the ensemble 17
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Mas bands, steelpan and calypso performers want more government support
Toronto.com
‘We have become a team’: Toronto Caribbean carnival producers join management board to help festival thrive
Toronto, Canada - ....For years, there’s been tension between masquerade bands, steelpan and calypso performers who produce the
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BIG WAR BETWEEN BERTEL GITTENS AND BEVERLEY RAMSEY MOORE OVER "WORLD PAN DAY"
"You want to know why Pan have nowhere to go? For two+ years we at the World Steelpan Thrust worked hard to make this UN recognition of World Steelpan Day possible, and the President of Pan Trinbago in her speech in this article NEVER mentioned our e
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In memory of Michael Marcano
Passed one year ago today.
Will always be remembered and appreciated as a Renegades treasure.
May he Rest In Peace
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Junior Calypso, Road March and Steelpan winners receive prizes - Sint Maarten
The Daily Herald
Participants in the competition pose for a photo during the ceremony on FridayPhilipsburg, Sint Maarten, W.I. - The 2023 Calypso Barbara Junior Calypso and Road March Competition and the Dow Musical Foundation Interscholastic Steel
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Seattle student orchestra coming to Courtenay for outdoor music series
Comox Valley Record
High school group will play familiar hits using an orchestra of steel drums
A student orchestra will play a range of music using steel drums on Sunday, June 25 at Simms Millennium ParkWashington, USA - ....The orchestra of 35 st
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Trinidad Moonlighters of North Vancouver, BC, performed at new book celebration and exhibition
Vancouver Is Awesome
The Trinidad Moonlighters performed at the exhibition’s closing event May 21
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - On Sunday afternoon crowds gathered at The Polygon to bid farewell to a photographic exhibition that celeb
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Windrush: Hundreds with chronic and mental illness sent back to Caribbean
By Navtej Johal & Joanna Hall
BBC News
Hundreds of long-term sick and mentally ill people from the Windrush generation were sent back to the Caribbean in what has been described as a "historic injustice", the BBC has found.
Formerly classifi
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More BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE HYPOCRISY on WORLD STEELPAN DAY ...
Now I is ah man who LOVE TO READ ABOUT PAN, and been doing so for DECADES. So ah have to call some people out on the carpet with THIS POSTING. As you all know, there is a BIG DEBATE in PAN about the newly-minted term "STEELPAN" -- a word I never use
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Pan Trinbago President: We will complete headquarters on our own
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Playing on for Patrick: Members of Proman Starlift Steel Orchestra play a song in tribute to former Pan Trinbago president Patrick Arnold at the Grand Stand, Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on Thursday evening.Trini
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St Luke’s Steel Band receives grant: Connecticut Governor Lamont Announces $7 Million in State Grants for Upgrades and Improvements at 34 Cultural and Historic Sites
Ct.gov
Connecticut, USA - Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut is releasing more than $7 million in state grants to several nonprofit organizations for the purposes of making facility and infrastructure upgrades at 34 cu
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