I have just spent the last hour and a ½ or so playing my favourite tunes from back in the day.
Headphones on volume up
Silver Stars - Elizabethan Serenade
North Stars - Hold On to Your Man
Hatters - Raindrops on My Pan
Despers - Melda
Harmonites Pana
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| Freddy Harris III plays the steelpan six-bass in Brooklyn. |
WHEN STEELPAN VIRTUOSO FREDDYHarris III heads to his gig, he doesn’t just bring a bass player—he brings eight of them. And they’re not playing the kind of bass you are imagining.
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Read more…I may be late with this news, but I was just informed on the passing of Sheldon....this means we have lost another great one...so many from the homeland are leaving. Sheldon was a very young man in his 30's. Many would know of him winning the Ex Temp
Read more…Here is a a more all rounded truth of the involvement of class, color and race of a people who invented the pan. It is true that the Afro Trinidadian were first given the gift of pan, as a replacement for their natural instruments-the African drums.
Read more…This has been a historic issue with the steel orchestras. Is it not time for the leaders to seek more funds from sponsors? I would think that if each band were to seek more sponsorship from established companies, manufacturers, large establishments e
Read more…We all love the steel pan. Are there any innovations that our pan community is looking forward to?
Read more…Since then, I have started a steel band here in Australia, and regularly try to find a recording that must have been made by somebody, probably to do with Renegades, of Kitch's ' Carnival is Over'
Renegades played it after carnival and panorama, in t
Read more…The philosophical concept that the pan invention brought with it the ability to unite the differences created by race, ethnicity, skin color and class is becoming more and more prevalent in the overall modern writings of the history of pan by histori
Read more…I'm watching the Carnival parade on CTNTWorld and I'm thinking, Carnival is big money.
Band leaders,costume creators and designers, caterers, retailers, DJs,Soca singers and bands, transportation companies etc. etc., they all make money off the Carn
Hi,
I think in today`s steel bands music as one can observe there is a great amount of improvement
and maturity in the music that`s being put forward; many youngsters are improving their musical knowledge and skills in the academic forum, I think it
Read more…2012 steelband panorama favorite song vibes time for the professor to win he paid his dues
Read more…I was curious if anyone downloads steel pan music? I have over 1000 songs from different bands and orchestras as well as steel drum artists to. I'm looking in particular for I'm yours by Jason Mraz instrumental steel pan style. I can't seem to find
Read more…Hello everyone:
I am a pan fanatic for more than 40 years and attended TT Carnival 1976 and 1981. Would like to attend 2012 and find accommodations ideally with other pan lovers to visit pan yards and who know the scene.
Hopefully withing walkin
Read more…Boogsie's Tribute to the Calypso King of the World is now on Sale.
Mp3s can be purchased online from CDBaby.com or from the Percussive Harmonic Instrument Facebook page.
In Trinidad, the physical retailers are Kam's (Long Circular Mall), Crosby's (St
Read more…This group was the official home based band in the T&T Pavilion and played daily. Some of the players were Knolly from the Coast Guard, Tobagonian Cesar, Roach, Briathwaite from the Police Services.This group was made up of Government employees for o
Read more…Re-mastered or re-engineered recordings; mainly for those of us who may have missed out.
I think it will also help raise much needed funds for Pan Trinbago and the performing bands.
According to what I have heard over the past years listening to WACK
Read more…First Allison Hezekiah, then Pat Bishop, now Jeraldine Connor. These are icons in the culture of T&T. They propagated for the culture to go mainstream. They got some rewards but not enough to propel the culture to international markets. They all pas
Read more…The greater the superhit the greater the possiblity of it being copied in some form or fashion. That's why Record companies try to recapture the cost of production in its first sales of records. Then after that it begins to pay royalties to the artis
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