Sunday serving of Steelpan Music at D’Radoes Band Launch
New York - Fashionably - or frustratingly, depending on your point of view - late, D’Radoes Steel Orchestra kicked off their annual band launch in high musical style last Sunday evening around
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - Grenada's top steel orchestras are gearing up this year for a major competition. Dubbed "Pan Explosion 2010,” each steel orchestra plays their "BOMB TUNE" for a maximum of six minutes, and with forty-five players at mo
Read more…Basement Recordings’ 2010 New York Pan Yard Recording Schedule
New York, USA - For many years Basement Recordings, Inc. - parent company of PanOnTheNet and When Steel Talks - has visited the pan yards of some of New York’s finest steel orchestras, t
CSI SteelbandLondon, UK - CSI Steelband Trust retained their BAS/CAPCA (British Association of Steelbands/ Children and Parents Carnival Association) Junior Panorama title for the third consecutive year. This is coupled with their victory at the firs
Read more…Meet Stanley Joseph - Captain of Sonatas Steel Orchestra
Panist set to move from steelpan ‘Battle Zone’ to real life Zone
Captain of Sonatas Steel Orchestra, Stanley JosephNew York, USA - Stanley Joseph, the young but very capable captain of the 2010
The Pan View - from the Pan Yard of Pantonic Steel Orchestra
Pantonic is a lean, mean fighting machine - looking for Goliath
New York, USA - Pantonic Steel Orchestra will enter the “Battle Zone” known as Panorama as a lean, mean, fighting machine. T
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - No less than nine steel orchestras turned “Pan Explosion 2010” into an event to remember, which took place on “Pantastic Saturday” one week ago, at Grenada’s National Stadium in the country’s capital of St. George’s. Pa
When Steel Talks extends best wishes to steelpan innovator, leader and arranger Anthony Willams.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Days to go before Pan Alive (Toronto’s version of the Trinidad and Tobago’s Annual Steelband Panorama) Hollis Clifton made a valiant and successful attempt to interview Ian Jones, Musical Director of Panatics Steelband for a
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Steelband Panorama Judges Seminar in the works
Veteran steelband music adjudicator Merle Albino-de CoteauTrinidad & Tobago - Pan Trinbago will be hosting a Judges' Seminar on Saturday May 8 2010 at the Ministry of Community Development, Culture an
Is it only me but what is happening to J'ouvert ? Where were all the known steelpans for j'ouvert ? I am talking about Sonatas, Moods ,Despers USA, Radoes ,Crossfire, and Casym .There were only about 7 groups out J'ouvert morning and Adlib wa
Read more…The Pan View - from the Pan Yard of CASYM Steel Orchestra
“Tell Dem” CASYM is coming for real!
New York, USA - Little people, big people, young people, mature people and lots of parents dot CASYM’s pan yard on Church Avenue. Not even the constant of
An Exclusive with Steelband Arranger Jeannine Remy
Winning Arranger for 2010 Pan in the 21st Century
Arranger Jeannine RemyTrinidad & Tobago, W. I. - Recently, Dr. Remy, as arranger, captured the sought-after 2010 Pan in the 21st Century title with
Defence Force Steel Orchestra participates in Holland Voorthuizen Military Tattoo
Trinidad & Tobago - The Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra has been invited to participate in the Holland Voorthuizen Military Tattoo from May 4–15, 2010
As might be remembered during the seventies, eighties and nineties Silhouettes were known as one of the most powerful Steelbands on the road in Brooklyn, New York for the Labor Day carnival and also in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade. This yea
Read more…Any Pan Frat members with info on NY bands practice locations ie cross streets and practice times please post them up.
Read more…St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Five of Antigua & Barbuda’s best known steel orchestras each take their place in the spotlight on Thursday July 29 as they vie for championship honors in the annual steel band music panorama competition. The even
Read more…Sforzata wins Pan in the 21st Century
Sforzata Steel Orchestra under the musical direction of Dr. Jeannine
Remy captured both the imagination of the crowd and judges, as well as
the 2010 Pan in the 21st Century steelband music competition title and
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by Les Slater
October 29 (editor’s note this article was originally published in 1987) will mark two years since we bade farewell to Francis “Patsy” Haynes — a name of which a lot more of us should have been more keenly aware. A lot more of us shoul
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