Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Pan’s Super Concert!
“Pan Sweet Pan… The Solidarity Concert” is fourteen of Trinidad & Tobago’s topnotch steel orchestras rallying to Pan Trinbago’s call to showcase the national instrument on one stage while Carifest
Read more…When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger André White - UK's 2019 Panorama Champions
1st - Mangrove - 284 points
2nd - Metronomes - 270 points
3rd - Ebony - 269 points
4th - Pan Nation - 263 points
5th - Croydon -
A long-running festival will bring members of Kitchener-Waterloo's many diverse communities together to celebrate African and Caribbean culture this weekend.
Now in its 14th year, the annual LINK Picnic Festival is a two-day showcase of music, art,
Read more…By Katie Segal -- Soca News
Lyn, who came to the UK in 1956, has always been part of carnival. Her uncle was Sterling Betancourt, one of the Notting Hill Carnival’s steel pan pioneers, her dad a pannist and her mother a carnival queen. Lyn and Carl
Read more…Evening Standard - Ben Morgan
The director of the Notting Hill Carnival today said this weekend’s event will celebrate the diversity of London and commemorate Grenfell victims.
Organisers are in last-minute preparations for Europe’s biggest street p
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,,,Regarding merit, I have repeatedly pointed out, for example, that our disadvantaged communities comprise many persons of enormous scientific talent who invented and perfected and now maintain the steel drum. Its music now captivates t
Read more…Rare Film Clips by Ray Funk
As part of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival at Carifesta, Ray Funk will be presenting a celebration of Pan Pioneers who have passed away. This free event will focus on Ellie Mannette, Kim Loy Wong, Clif
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
- Joan Rampersad
She dropped the ball on pan in Carifesta’
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts.
Pan Trinbago is most upset with Minister of Community
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St. John's, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Seven bands took the stage, but eventually with eight performances overall for the country's 2019 national steelband Panorama competition, this event was definitely one for the record books... How about the same
Read more…MUSIC documentary Charlie's Records, romance feature Grace and Saleem and touching short Sampson's Heart have won the People's Choice Awards for the recently concluded TT Film Festival (TTFF) 2019 Carifesta edition.
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/08/29/c
Read more…PANArt Publications de PANArt Hangbau SA
With ‘Secrets of the Steelpan – Unlocking the Secrets of the Science, Technology, Tuning and Operation of the Steelpan’ Dr. Anthony Achong is presenting his life’s work, a summary of his extensive studies on
By CATALINA RIGHTER
CARROLL COUNTY TIMES
London News Global Views
...The Notting Hill Carnival is rightly regarded as an institution in London. It’s the largest street party in Europe and second largest carnival in the world trailing only Rio de Janeiro. Over the coming Bank Holiday weeken
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Edmonton's premier steel-pan orchestra has flown in the best of the best to take care of their instruments ahead of the Cariwest festival this weekend.
The TrinCan Steel Orchestra sought out Augustus Peters, a renowned steel-pan maker an
Read more…Trinidad Guardian August 11th, 2019
by ABRAHAM DIAZ
"Public Administration Minister Marlene McDonald will face as many as seven criminal charges, including misbehaviour in public office, conspiracy to defraud and money laun
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Conversations with the Pioneers” is the historical component in Pan Trinbago’s Pan Month calendar of events marking the anniversary of the declaration of the steelpan as the national music instrument of Trinidad & Tobago.
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The Carifesta XIV experience being hosted in Trinidad and Tobago this year may have a bit of upheaval, this as Pantrinbago says the national instrument isn’t being treated with the respect it deserves.
Ace pannist Dane Gulston ha
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OVER THE last few weeks, I’ve been talking to different people that make up the components of
Read more…By COLLEEN CURRAN Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Richmond Folk Festival has announced 12 more performers on tap for the three-day free music event held on Richmond’s riverfront in October.
In honor of the festival’s 15th anniversary, organizers will
LiveConnections, which is based at World Cafe Live, reaches thousands of students each year through several programs. One of its in-school workshops is returning to F. Amedee Bregy School in September. (Grace Maiorano/SPR)
Robinson immersed into mus
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