This is just a taste of what you missed on September 24th when Cousoumeh - The Movement was officially launched at the Deltones Institute of Steel Drums and Music.
Read more…Mixed Metals - Fast Forward Posted by Rare And Strange Instruments
Read more…
DeKalb, Illinois, USA - At 5:02 EST (Eastern Standard Time) NIU (Northern Illinois University) Steelband took the stage to loud applause. Dressed in NIU’s official colors red and black, the NIU steelpan music program is now clearly a part of the NIU
Read more…St. Lucia Times
The two-day event will bring together delegates from over twenty -seven countries, and will improve regional unity, Dr. Ramlal-Rai said.
“We have had presentations, discussions, ideas, and have threshed out proposals. By the end of
Read more…Barbados Nation News
These students from the Combermere School Steel Orchestra were very well received during the DLP’s Everything Bajan Evening of Pan. (Picture by Reco Moore)
Barbados, W.I. - The sweet sounds from the steel pan and the rhythmic b
Read more…Steelpans for Hampshire Music Service; 15-piece Steelband currently being made by Grafton Yearwood.
Steel Pan Agency provided Steelpans for schools.
http://www.steelpanagency.com/buy-steelpans/4577148241
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Recently, it has been brought to WST's (When Steel Talks) attention, that someone who has to be considered technology-challenged, but is still in fact president or vic
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - birdsong acknowledges with the deepest gratitude the widespread outpourings of support for our cause that have been aired in both the conventional and social media in response to our recent eviction from the premises that we
By Steve ScheringContact Reporter
During what could be a magical season for the Chicago Cubs, the students of one Oak Park school are sending their support to the team through a music video.
Hatch Elementary School's steel drum band, which is made
Read more…Produced by Afropop Worldwide • Last aired September 29, 2016
Every September, millions of people celebrate Carnival in Brooklyn. From the pre-dawn J’ouvert bacchanal in the streets, to the intense Panorama steel pan competition, to the massive La
Read more…
It’s 10 am on a January day that’s colder than what I’m used to. Maybe it’s because of the ocean breeze that’s whipping my hair around my face like free formed streams of ice. It could be that everyone is moving around
NY Junior Panorama Results
1 - 264 points - Higher Levin - Damany James
2 - 262 points - NY Pan Stars - Marc Brooks
3 tie - 257 points - AdLib - Tristan Brewington-Japsi
3 tie - 257 points - CASYM - Lance Maximin
5 - 254 points - Pan Evolution - Bran
Read more…The sound of the Caribbean filled the town centre on Saturday when a steel band took to the high street.
Panachea brought the tunes to Slough, as well as running workshops for members of the public to get involved
“....if the steelband movement is to go forward, we cannot do so with Keith Diaz as the president”
Global - With grumblings in social media circles by pan players in Trinidad & Tobago about a possible boycott of Panorama 2017, along with frustration
We have been working behind the scenes to get this published so that we can move on with the rest of our project. Hear is a short film showing a vision of where we are heading. If you play pan and are interested, let us know by leaving a comment and
Read more…D Midas
Dawad Philip
When an elder dies, a great library is lost, so the African proverb says. So too, when a mas man passes on, a storyteller, raconteur and magician disappears, a piece of the Carnival -- theatre, art and transcendence -- is taken
The Canadians are here! Good luck to Pan Fantasy in the NY 2016 Panorama. It was great meeting you again and 'documenting' your yard performance for WST's drive-by team.
Read more…
