St. John’s Antigua- Eleven bands, two winners and another judging controversy.
The 2011 Independence Schools Steel Band Competition saw a keenly contested battle for top honours and bragging rights, but the event was marred by logistical snags and a
Read more…Print publication date: 2007
Print ISBN-13: 9780195175479
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195175479.001.0001
The Steelband Movement and Music
This chapter shows that a dynamic relatio
Read more…Pan family, Is it possible to fix Pan history?
In 1965 Panorama, they said that the results was
(1) Cavalier, Melody Mas, (2) N
Read more…Here I am, trying to support pan, and anxioue to enjoy a good pan concert. So I try to buy my copies of the Pillars of Steel CD and DVD on WACK FM as advertised.
Come to find out its not available.
It was taken of the market for legal reasons.
Appare
Read more…I just listened to Boogsie's new CD on WACK Radio, and it is "SICK". He is paying tribute to Sparrow and he dedicated it to the late Dr. Pat Bishop.
Read more…Note well ,from my observation,,the only steelband that has played Indian Music to my knowledge was Jit Samaroo..with his family which i listened to and was astonished in the year 1983 ?,,now to the point,T&T is a multicultural country,,if the steelp
Read more…musical moment: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tries her hand on a tenor pan after it was presented yesterday to Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Duxton Hotel in Perth, Australia. Persad-Bissessar is in Australia for the Commonwea
Read more…My comments may be offensive to many,,but let the truth prevail,,i,m on this website When Steel Talks to express my feelings in a possitive way with no gimmicks or running around,or bobbing and weaving,,,the subject matter and point of importance r
Read more…Hi there
I recently got my tenor back and started playing some old panorama calypsoes. So far I have learned High Mass by Nu-Tones, Pan Earthquake by Renegades and have started learning Bee's Melody, again by Renegades. I have reached the 6' 50" m
Read more…For the last 5 years I have been reading the posts on WST and PanTrinbago websites. WST is a great saviour for the Pan Industry. PanTrinbago follows WST discussions about what is happening in the PanWorld and with all the important news PanTrinbago l
Read more…Does anyone know of any Calypso vocalists in New York who maybe interested in a recording project? The vocalist "must" be Trinidadian, music has been arranged by Frankie McIntosh and lyrics edited by Winsford 'Joker' Devine.
If you know of anyone,
Read more…Trinidad born Latin bandleader Edmundo Ross has passed away . He lived to be 100 years old.
He popularized the Latin American music sound in Britain in the forties and fifties, and I remember regularly hearing his music on the radio in Trinidad in
Read more…Can anyone name of the Steel Pan Soloist and the Tune that was played when Radio Trinidad came On-Air? Very early in the morning back in the days 1950's-60's. Do you remember?
Bertie Marshall and Wallace Austin, the 2 greatest double tenor makers, will take the secret with them to their grave (it's a pity)
Read more…As a young pannist/musician/artist having an organization that looks out for the needs of the PLAYERS within the {TNT} steelpan community and movement (and by extension Regional and International) is very important in my opinion. It has been my obser
Read more…Upon me being a member of WST ,,in the inception i,ve noticed a few things which are of great importance,,namely a deviation of the type of music played which would be in sync with the multiculturalism of T&T,,a constant concentration being placed on
Read more…Danville Williamson the president of J'Ouvert City International Inc. through out the last week of the labor day season expressed to every one that he is controlling the results of all the competitions Masqueraders and Pan. On labor day morning he wa
Read more…Hello all. I've been wanting to buy a steel drum for years, and just can't find a store in the twin cities here in MN, that sells them. If anyone knows of any stores that might have them in stock, will you please let me know? I've seen tons of websit
Read more…Hello all. I just got a Low C Tenor pan on Saturday and I'm wanting to find some online lessons since I don't know anyone in the town I live in that knows how to play a pan. If anyone knows of any videos or audio lessons I will pay for them as long a
Read more…We have Steelpan, We have Art, We have Music, We have High Culture - We Exist!
Ole Mas, Oil, Paint, Powder and PAN - again King in Brooklyn for J’Ouvert
New York, USA - This was indeed a very special J’Ouvert morning in New York as I was rudely awak
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