Hyattsville, Maryland, USA - On Saturday, December 12th, “one of the best small charities in the Greater Washington region” will host an unforgettable evening of Holiday music featuring a unique and often misunderstood musical instrument. click for
Read more…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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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
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
Read more…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
Read more…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
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
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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
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
Read more…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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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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