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An Interview with Steelpan Musician and Songwriter Avis Bruce

Global - Avis Bruce is a professional steelpan musician, arranger, composer and music tutor. She has been a member of the present Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Symphony Orchestra from its inception; in addition she was a member of the former Tri

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Steelband Panorama Songwriting Great Winston “DeFosto” Scarborough speaks on the 2010 Season

Global - His name is Winston Scarborough - but to most of the world he is known as “DeFosto” the steelband panorama music songwriter master. The exact moniker preferred by Scarborough is “The Original DeFosto Himself.” For over three decades, songw

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The Man is Simply “Crazy”

Vocalist and Performer Edwin Ayoung Speaks on Pan and Steelband Panorama Music Global - Veteran recording artist, composer and performer Edwin “Crazy” Ayoung is one of the most versatile and respected practitioners of the art of singing and composin

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A Vote of No Confidence in New York pan Association - The Winds of Change

The Winds of Change - New York Steelband Association set to Alter Course New York - With only a week into the 2010 season the winds of change have propelled themselves into the consciousness of the steelpan music world. When Steel Talks News has bee

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Aging Panist Savours his Story - Steelpan no longer on pedestal

78 year-old Elton Parks or 'Sackie,' as he's fondly called among the pan fraternity - in an interview with Hollis Clifton - revealed that he had a vision to become a 'calypsonian' and a 'taxi driver.' Both of these were achieved except that he became

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New Rule Change for Panorama 2010

New Rule Change for Panorama 2010
Global - Pan Trinbago has announced an increase in the number of bands qualifying for the National Panorama Finals 2010. Visit When Steel Talks As a result there will be ten (10) finalists in each of the three cate

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Steelband Sponsors, is it all about you?

Opinion Piece by Michael L. Joseph Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, WI: Today, in this age of National Steel Orchestra / National Steel Symphony, Pan in Schools, the E-pan, the G-Pan, the PHI, the National Youth Steel Orchestra etc; one is still left to won

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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra & Robert Greenidge sync for Panorama 2010 “Musical Magnum” makes forceful entry

Global - For 2010, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is going into the ‘Big Yard’ with music written by arranger, world-renowned musician and performing artist in his own right, Robert Greenidge.  Determined to be once again a force to be reckoned with on

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Phase II Pan Groove leads the pack going into steelband panorama 2010 competition finals

Trinidad & Tobago - Phase II Pan Groove leads the pack going into Trinidad and Tobago's national steelband panorama 2010 competition finals, with the 2009 champs Silver Stars on their heels, and south-based Skiffle Bunch rounding out the top three of

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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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