Over 400 people signed the petition championed by international panist, arranger and educator Mr. Salah Wilson, calling for the protection of the funding to participating 2011 Trinidad and Tobago panorama players. You are all to be commended for tak
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The Thwaites and Esperanza Spalding
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Maryland, USA - The University of Maryland Black Honors Caucus & Pan United Youth Movement (the latter led by Shawn Thwaites), was proud to host composer, vocalist and virtuoso bassist Espera
Pan gorn clear!
Ontario, Canada - Oh goooode! I get christen over again! Dem pan jumbie hole me in a full Nelson and douse my head in holy water till ah ketch de power an bawl for murderation. Hear nuh man. Talk bout bess? Steupse....it was more dan
UK Pan Tuners appoints Executives
UK - The UK Pan Tuners Guild held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday 12th December 2010 at the Percy Centre in Bath. The Guild was set up by steelpan craftsmen who wish to support the development of their craft a
BP Renegades files an injunction against Pantrinbago
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
By Jamaal Greenidge
BP Renegades says the noise from the north stand during the panor
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Single-Pan Band Finalists: Trinidad & Tobago Panorama - 2011
Trinidad & Tobago - San Juan East Side Symphony continued its winning streak with 277 points at the end of the National Single Pan Semi Finals last Saturday evening.
The San Juan band und
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Performing for Trinidad & Tobago's 2010 Junior Steelband FestivalTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Results are available for the 14th Biennial National Junior Steelband Music Festival held at the Jean Pierre Complex in Port-of-Spain and the Rudranath Capilde
Global - This collection of music pieces is called “Open Window” and it is quite appropriately so named. You, the listener, are afforded the unique position as an interested, or possibly even originally dispassionate viewer - through this ‘open windo
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This is something I have been saying as well. In fact, if it does happen, next year will we worst.
Read more…There has been a change in venue for the Tobago leg of the National Single Pan Preliminaries.
The event carded for today Friday (4th February will now be held at the respective panyards of the participating steelbands. The competition was originall
Read more…Yesterday evening, Merv was shot and killed in front of his home on Brooklyn Avenue. We often lament the levels of violence that our society has come to. The anger in the streets, in particular among our youth is palpable and we have reached a point
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Nigeria - That the second annual Secondary School Steel Band Competition in Lagos, Nigeria came off at all, is itself testimony to a love of the steelband culture and art form, embodied in the personage of Nigerian Bowie Sonnie Bowei. Exactly four ye
Mosaic Steel Orchestra of Barbados panyard destroyed by hurricane Tomas
Mosaic Steel Orchestra of
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Nigeria - The second annual Secondary School Steel Band Competition was held in Lagos, Nigeria on November 23 and featured steel orchestras from seven schools. The brainchild of steelpan entrepreneur Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, the steelband competitio
Single Pan Bands Preliminary Panorama 2011
New York, USA - Single pan bands in the East and Tobago will begin this year’s National Panorama competitions.
Some 20 steelbands in the East will face a panel of adjudicators at the Larry Gomes Stadium
From Gregory Lindsay
Greetings ...
An important update to the WST community
Please permit my frankness and brevity for an independent update to the WST diaspora from the ground in Port-of-Spain yesterday at an emergency meeting held yesterday at Com
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