Congratulations to Grenada 2015 Panorama Champs - Angel Harps Steel Orchestra!! - RESULTS

Position - Points	Name of Band	Tune of Choice	Arranger(s)
1st  - 286	Angel Harps Steel Orchestra	Tune In Dey Rukung Ku Tun Tun	James Clarkson
2nd - 273	Commancheros Steel Orchestra	Tune In Dey Rukung Ku Tun Tun	Andre Greenidge
3rd  - 269	New Dim

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2nd Australian Steelpan Festival

A Review by Mark Loquan, Musical Director, Perth Pandemix

What happens when you have a lot of pan enthusiasts from players, tuners, Carnival mas players, arrangers, and pan supporters in one place? You get lots of music, but more than that, you get a

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UK Steelband Panorama Winners - Previous Winners of the Notting Hill ‘Champions of Steel’ Panorama

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Basement 2015 Panyard Recording Schedule

Basement 2015 Panyard Recordings

Tuesday September 1^st:

• 8:00 p.m.- ADLIB Steel Orchestra - [DONE]
  

 

Wednesday September 2^nd:

• 8:00 p.m. - CrossFire Steel Orchestra  -  [DONE]
  
  
• 9:30 p.m. - Despers USA Steel Orchestra - CANCELLED -- due
  to the NYPD

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New York Panorama Panists Get Plenty Licks - Punked Again!

The 2015 New York Panorama season will go down as one of the most challenging and difficult ever experienced by the New York steel orchestra franchises. The devil was working overtime on every aspect of this season's Panorama check list and essential

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Curry Tabanca - Slight Pepper - BEST PANORAMA STEELBAND IN THE WORLD by Dalton Narine

Curry Tabanca - Slight pepper

BEST PANORAMA STEELBAND IN THE WORLD

by Dalton Narine

 

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

© 2015 When Steel Talks - All Rights Reserved

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Bradley and Rebecca Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama 1983

Dalton Narine was a Trinidad & Tobago Television (TTT) interviewer and commentator during the 1983 Carnival.

As an innovator of steelband interviews in the Panorama, he was the paramount interrogator of the festival. And Bradley had entrusted him wit

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A Three-Peat for PanTime Steel Orchestra as St. Lucia Panorama Champions Yet Again - 2015

Amrit Samaroo is Champion Panorama Arranger

Gros Islet, St. Lucia, W.I. - Defending Panorama champs PanTime Steel Orchestra appeared in the penultimate spot in this year’s competition, and tasted the bitter-sweet success of a three-peat as 2015 Pan

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Standing O for Kendall Williams, Josh Quillen and CrossFire Steel Orchestra at Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey, USA - On an early cool Spring day Brooklyn, New York-based Crossfire Steel Orchestra took to the road and headed south for a command performance at Princeton University.  This concert was presented as  part of the World Percus

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Parallel Overtones - Special of the Day at the Surgarcane

Brooklyn, New York - Packed to the brim, with crowd overflow outside the venue - on a Monday evening at the trendy and world-famous "Sugarcane" in Brooklyn, New York - no chairs, no tables - standing room only - Garvin Blake, Frankie McIntosh

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Meet Luz Carime Santa-Coloma - New York University, New York

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

New York, New York - “I can honestly say that playing with CrossFire at the Panorama competition was the most fun I have ever had on stage...” - She knows first-hand that Pan is much more than an instrum

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The Story of Pan in Antigua

by Leroy “Jughead” Gordon

Many of the aristocratic elements in the society stuck up their noses at the steelband men and their music and sought to have them banned from playing on the streets. Government at one time even sought to pass a law giving t

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Meet Catherine Borneo - Brooklyn, New York

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Brooklyn, New York - “Women have become more vocal - the Steelpan art form is an open forum for both men and women” - With three daughters actively involved in Pan as steelpan musicians, she has a uni

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Through the "Great Barrier Reefs" Nashville Meets Harlem Over A Steelpan Groove

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

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The Spilling of Blood - Phase II vs. Trinidad All Stars - A Saga for The Ages

by Dalton Narine

Fast-forward to the 2015 Panorama and all you see or hear on the Drag and in the stands, on Facebook, in nooks and crannies everywhere, is the notion that Trinidad All Stars are in the business of chromaticisms. Their music is encumb

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A Celebration of Women in Pan - Women’s Month - 2015

When Steel Talks revisits and continues our annual celebration of “Women in Pan” all over the world...

Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form

Sisters in Steel - A Tribute To Women In Pan

Their Story, Their Voice, Their Life, Their Dreams, The

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Meet Janyssa Humphreys - Antigua and Barbuda

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Antigua and Barbuda - "We have so much potential to take our steel pan movement to another level”. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Janyssa Humphreys of Antigua and Barbuda shares her

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The Codrington Pan Family Pave the Way at SXSW Interactive

Austin, Texas - The reviews have been glowing. Last week the Codrington Pan Family performed at the globally recognized, very influential and trendy SXSW festival. In fact, the Codrington Pan Family was named one of SXSW 2015’s 10 breakout act

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An Interview with Raf Robertson - Musician, Former Panorama Judge and birdsong Arranger by Dalton Narine

A frank and honest assessment of all the parts of the music phenomena known as Panorama in 2015.

Bradley, Ray Holman and Boogsie
They changed the dynamic completely. They were able to get simple melodies and still have substance and bacchanal.

Brad

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Meet Hope Munro Smith of - California State University, Chico, CA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Trinidad Á Tobago - With a genuine interest in the contributions of women to music globally she fell deeply in love with Trinidad and Tobago's culture, music and Pan. She is a steelpan musician, autho

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