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
Read more…Antigua & Barbuda, WI - Hardly a country in the world can say that it has not been impacted in some way by the severe downturn in the economy within the last twelve months. With several businesses reeling from the effects of this still-ongoing circ
Read more…St. Vincent & The Grenadines, WI. - CELEBRATE! with Starlift and friends is a concert that brings together the steel pans of St. Vincent’s 42-year old Starlift Steel Orchestra and the harmonies of the mixed New Kingstown Chorale and the all-female ch
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New York, USA - Imagine the great Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, champion arranger for the famed Phase Two Pan Groove conducting an intense panorama practice on a hot Summer night with New York’s Moods Pan Groove at their Brooklyn panyard. Mr. Sharpe is givin
New York, USA - First off: Jonathan Scales is a bad man. He traveled for 12 hours from South Carolina to drop his brand of Jazz /rock/fusion in New York at “The Shrine” in Harlem for a six o’clock performance. If you are going to perform musically in
Read more…Champion Steelband Arranger Yohan Popwell in the Spotlight New York, USA - He is the arranger for one of the top steel orchestras in America, Sonatas. And in 2009 he made a clean sweep by capturing championship titles in steelband music Panoramas i
Read more…Jason says -
"why is it the every year ADLIB never gets on the recording basement needs to make the drive to long island and record!!!! Adlib is now one of the top bands n the NY pan scene n get the short end of thestick."
Hi Jason; Thanks for your Read more…Panorama Promoters say - No money for you!
In a move that only a Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, Al Capone, or recently convicted felon, former New York police commissioner Bernard “Bernie” Kerik and /or the other Wall Street notorious corporate thugs, wou
Pan Trinbago seeks to correct bits of misinformation being perpetuated by the public and certain sectors, most of them uninformed and unfair. The facts are as follows: Pan Trinbago has in its possession a document entitled “Strategic Plan for Susta
Read more…Global - This year, there will be two Pan In New York CDs released. Pan In New York 2009 - the CD, will feature the orchestras performing at tempo. The other CD, "Pan In New York - the Cooldown Version" will feature the bands playing at reduced temp
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Happy Birthday Neville Jules - Steelpan Titan revisited in WST Interview
There are a collective few who bear the distinction of being universally recognized as members of that unique, and special fraternity we at When Steel Talks refer to as Giants a
Hi all SUNDAY AUGUST 16,2009 2514 ALBERMERLE ROAD FROM 4 TO 11 DONATION $5.00 BANDS PERFORMING PAN AMBASSADORS, STEEL SENSATION,CROSSFIRE,SESAME FLYERS , PANTONIC MUSIC BY RAGE KULANJI HD, FANTASY SOUNDS,RHYTHM INTERNATIONAL & GETLOOSE INT FOR MO
Read more…The Higher Level
by - Mrs. Merle Albino-de Coteau
Bradley was academically sound. So great was he that after being a student at the Gov't Training College and passing with distinction in his subjects he was recalled- this time as a lecturer in Mathe
Printers ‘talking loud’ and saying something
Two ‘Scaredy Cats’ Run for cover,
New York, NY - Ever wonder what happens when you take the product presenters out of their comfort zone and eliminate their prepared script? Will they let their product do
New York, USA - In addition to it being panorama time, it was pan yard recording night for the mighty Sonatas. Always up for the challenge and looking to be innovative and new, Sonatas again surprised all present. Indeed, this one was special. Sonata
New York, NY - When Steel Talks (WST) is among the press corps at the PDN International Conference and PhotoPlus Expo, Jacob Javits Center, New York. We are here to mingle with manufacturers, observe, question and explore their philosophies and their
Read more…New York, USA - Yesterday was an added triple treat - WST (When Steel Talks) not only got to check out the newly renovated New York State Theater (David H. Koch Theater) at Lincoln center but we also got to see one of our own favorite daughters of pa
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, WI - The Pan in Schools Coordinating Council helps to introduce new music technology to the classroom and develop young pan tuners. In 1999 a group of school teachers with a deep interest in the development of the steelpan, came t
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New York's J'Ouvert 2009 was the place to be this past Labor Day. If you were not there you missed one of America's most entertaining, live, community-based performing arts mediums. America's got major talent - and no where is it better displayed tha
It is now five years later since the original opinion essay below was written by Mr. Nestor Sullivan. WST member Marcus Ash ask -- What are your thoughts and feeling on the subject today?
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