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Daddy Sparks, Seventy Eight Years young & still playing the Steelpan

Trinidad & Tobago, WI - Come carnival 2010 Fitz-Gerald Sparks would be 79 years young and still playing tenor pan for his beloved Starlift Steelband for panorama even though he is confined to walking on crutches over the last eight years. “Daddy Spa

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“Pan Army” finally here - Legendary steelband arranger reveals his 2010 panorama contender

Global - The long-awaited 2010 panorama music release from Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, steelband arranger, composer and legendary musician extraordinaire, is finally here. Going into the annual panorama battle, Boogsie has called his Phase II music troops

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United States Steelband Association - USSA: New Beginning, New Direction, New Promise

United States Steelband Association - USSA: New Beginning, New Direction, New Promise New York, USA - A new beginning, era and focus were ushered into the steelband movement as a new administration took the helm of the North American-based steelband

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Steelband Magic in a Winter Wonderland Cancelled

Brooklyn, New York - Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph with Santa in tow were spotted flying over central Brooklyn as part of a detour and music break to catch some prime time steelband music. If the truth be t

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Solo Harmonites Steel Orchestra Breaks Bread -Reunification dinner sets the stage

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, WI - While adults can take claim for the eventual reunification of the legendary Solo Harmonites Steel Orchestra, youths are getting the credit for making it work. The impact of their innocence binds the band as was clearly r

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TnT Panorama 2010 Music Selections.

Global - Steelband Tunes as selected by conventional small, medium and large steel orchestras for the Trinidad & Tobago 2010 Steelband Music Panorama competition. We will add more info as the bands check in. click for more

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Semi Final Results are in - Shocker! No Exodus in Final!

Trinidad and Tobago steelband music panorama giant knocked out of finals.

No Exodus in finals!

Large Conventional Semi Final Results:
 
1. Phase II Pan Groove 277
2. Silver Stars 273
3. Skiffle Bunch 272
4. All Stars 266
5. Invaders 260
6. Desperadoes 260
7. H

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Teddy Vann - A Giant Remembered Grammy Award Winner Impacts Steelpan Music Organization

New York, USA - There has been a seismic shift in the balance of the equation as we lost another great one. Indeed, this loss is close to home and is personal to many of us who have come through When Steel Talks/Basement Recordings. Educator, intelle

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Happy Brithday to Len "Boogsie" Sharpe

Happy Belated Birthday to the legendary arranger Len "Boogsie" Sharpe from When Steel Talks. His birthday was on October 28. Bigup! click for more on Mr. Sharpe

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Legends -- Lennard “Scrubb” Wellington - St. Lucia's North Stars

St. Lucia - Somewhere in the 1940’s a young man named Lennard “Scrubb” Wellington, started on his way to become St. Lucia’s steelband maestro. He had experimented with music from the age of seven and his real interest in pan started after World W

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Technology Once Again the Great Equalizer

With unprecedented access in today’s world comes astronomical numbers of choices, which begets unusual competition for people’s time and attention in ways and places one must be forced to come to terms with. Who would ever have thought that a Yankee

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Moods of Pan 2009 One Night or Three, Steelpan will still take center stage

Antigua & Barbuda, WI - Hardly a country in the world can say that it has not been impacted in some way by the severe downturn in the economy within the last twelve months. With several businesses reeling from the effects of this still-ongoing circ

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Voices and Steel concert-bound in St. Vincent & The Grenadines

St. Vincent & The Grenadines, WI. - CELEBRATE! with Starlift and friends is a concert that brings together the steel pans of St. Vincent’s 42-year old Starlift Steel Orchestra and the harmonies of the mixed New Kingstown Chorale and the all-female ch

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Web 2.0 in Full Effect - Technology Raises Stakes for Steelband Enterprises

New York, USA - Imagine the great Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, champion arranger for the famed Phase Two Pan Groove conducting an intense panorama practice on a hot Summer night with New York’s Moods Pan Groove at their Brooklyn panyard. Mr. Sharpe is givin

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Jonathan Scales is A Bad Man: This Cat can play the steelpan

New York, USA - First off: Jonathan Scales is a bad man. He traveled for 12 hours from South Carolina to drop his brand of Jazz /rock/fusion in New York at “The Shrine” in Harlem for a six o’clock performance. If you are going to perform musically in

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Champion Steelband Arranger Yohan Popwell in the Spotlight - An Exclusive Interview

Champion Steelband Arranger Yohan Popwell in the Spotlight New York, USA - He is the arranger for one of the top steel orchestras in America, Sonatas. And in 2009 he made a clean sweep by capturing championship titles in steelband music Panoramas i

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Who gets recorded and why...

Jason says -

"why is it the every year ADLIB never gets on the recording basement needs to make the drive to long island and record!!!! Adlib is now one of the top bands n the NY pan scene n get the short end of thestick."

Hi Jason; Thanks for your

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Revisited -- New York Steelband Organizations Sandbagged!

Panorama Promoters say - No money for you!

In a move that only a Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, Al Capone, or recently convicted felon, former New York police commissioner Bernard “Bernie” Kerik and /or the other Wall Street notorious corporate thugs, wou

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Pan Trinbago Responds to its Detractors

Pan Trinbago seeks to correct bits of misinformation being perpetuated by the public and certain sectors, most of them uninformed and unfair. The facts are as follows: Pan Trinbago has in its possession a document entitled “Strategic Plan for Susta

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Pan in New York 2009 - Cool Down Versions

Global - This year, there will be two Pan In New York CDs released. Pan In New York 2009 - the CD, will feature the orchestras performing at tempo. The other CD, "Pan In New York - the Cooldown Version" will feature the bands playing at reduced temp

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