On June 14, 2012, Bob Cole Conservatory faculty member Dr. Michael Carney passed away. We lost a colleague and a friend–a member of our family. A memorial concert is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, September 23rd. We will celebra
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ndon, England, U.K. - Award-winning SV2G Wycombe Steel Orchestra represented the Commonwealth and had Buckingham Palace guests partying in the Palace gardens as part of Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations on Monday 4th June.
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Read more…Musical Instrument Museum - Brussels
Recently a low tenor steel pan was given to the mim (Musical Instrument Museum) by the government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. To celebrate this donation of their national instrument to the Belgian state
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Lagos, Nigeria
- A union between Nigeria’s Xcel Steelpan Co. Ltd., Trinidad and Tobago’s Pan Trinbago Inc. and FCL (Financial Concepts Limited) was consummated in Gatwick, United Kingdom on Saturday 12th May, 2012. The three organisations came toge
New York Pan... much more than entertainment - it’s an experience, it’s culture, it’s community, it’s affirmation of life... the tradition continues...
New York Champs of Steel Concert
New York, USA - The big guns in the New York steelpan music fr
Read more…Andy Akiho is Busting Out... Taking the Steelpan Instrument to Uncharted Zones
New Stories and Conversations for Pan
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - On a cool and crisp spring Friday evening, When Steel Talks (WST) finds itself at the prestigious Pri
Read more…Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) tries his hand at a steelpan drum alongside professional Curt Rogers, during the recording of a video message for the upcoming Steelpan Festival in Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Ban describe
Read more…Another When Steel Talks Concert Review
New York, New York - For this Spring Steel Orchestra co
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Saturday 19th May @2pm 2012 will see the launch of the New Zealand Steel Pan Academy, with a focus on bringing the magic of Pan to all.
The Musical Director Marion Titmuss can’t wait to showcase the possibilities that playing Pan can give to Kiwi’s o
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Read more…Shawn and Sherwin continue to spread the voice of the steel drum throughout the world. The brothers recently toured the UK with Native Deen promoting their third album "The Remedy" . Native Deen along with Danish pop sensation, "Outlandish," Junaid
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Remembering - Dr. Jit Samaroo - Steelband Arranger Extraordinaire!!!
Global - Dr. Jit Sukha Samaroo (Musician, Panist, Composer, and steel pan arranger) was born in Surrey Village in the Lopinot Valley, Trinidad, on 24 February 1950, the sixth of
Presented by Kelly Strayhorn Theater in partnership with Union Project
Tuesday–Thursday, April 17–May 24 | Performance Wednesday, May 30
SOUNDWAVES is a full-scholarship intensive steelband music program designed
Funeral Service set for Steelband Stalwart Junior Pouchet
Pan Trinbago closes offices in observance of the association's past president
Global - The funeral service of Edgar “Junior” Pouchet will take place at St. Finbar’s Roman Catholic Church, Mo
New book on the legendary orchestra coming soon
Port of Spain, Trinidad, W.I. - Invaders Steel Orchestra is calling on local and foreign pan players to assist Dr. Jeannine Remy, Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Creative and Festival A
Read more…Tobago, W.I. - The THA (Tobago House of Assembly) Pan Champs 2012 competition took place last evening, February 14, at the Garden Side Car Park, Scarborough in Trinidad’s sister isle of Tobago.
Seventeen bands competed in three categories: Large C
Read more…New York Steel Band Pioneers to be Honored!
Posthumous tribute to two well-known names
New York, USA - Some veterans of the New York steel band scene who, back in the 1950s and 60s, laid the foundation for the steel band movement that now exists in
