Panorama 2015 Notes - Raw Talk
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Meet Carrissa Victor - Trinidad and Tobago
Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
Trinidad and Tobago - This multi-talented panist is immensely gifted, intelligent and ready to take the art form to a higher level. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - composer, musician
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Tribute To Clive Bradley -- The Man and His Work - A Von Martin Production
Von Martin has produced a very special tribute to Clive Bradley that in addition to highlighting the master's musical brilliance, showcases his social awareness and consciousness, his genius, and his humanity. On behalf of the global steelband commun
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Rudolph ‘Rudy’ King - The Father of the Steelband in America by esteemed ethnomusicologist, journalist and educator Doris Green.
Global - Born in Trinidad, Rudy King is known as the first person to bring the steel
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A Night to Remember - Bravo, Bravo, Bravo - Kendall Williams ACO, NYU, BSO, Crossfire and the Steelpan
New York, New York - This is a magnificent music story that is so much more. It is a story about the human condition that allows one to grow, overcome, provide opportunity and affect change on a community.
The event was “Composers OutFront“ and the
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David Rudder Speaks! - Performing Artist, Composer, Musician Extraordinaire - UpClose!
David Rudder Speaks! - Performing Artist, Composer, Musician Extraordinaire - UpClose!
Global - The name David Michael Rudder is synonymous with a thoughtful consideration for artistic integrity, an appreciation of culture, and an acute awareness
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Revisited -- Daddy Sparks, Seventy-eight years young & still playing the Steelpan
by Hollis Clifton
Pan Diaspora Visionary
Pan Diaspora Visionary
Trinidad, W.I. - Come carnival 2010 Fitz-Gerald Sparks would be 79 years young and still playing tenor pan for his beloved Starlift Steelband for Trinidad & Tobago panorama even though he has been confined to
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A Chat With Clive Bradley - Master Arranger, Composer, Producer - UpClose!
Global - Over the course of approximately a little over two decades, members of WST (When Steel Talks) interacted closely with the late Clive Bradley in various capacities - i.e.., musicians, players, engineers and journalists. The following is |
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Steelband arranger and guitaris Scipio “Sarge” Sargeant - An Exclusive WST Interview
Scipio “Sarge” Sargeant at Basement Recordings’ studios in an exclusive 2003 WST interview. “Sarge” has been a significant figure on the music scene, co-arranging for Despers USA during their record 6 consecutive year-wins at the New York Panorama.
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Caldera’s Mambo
Global - The writing and performance of Reynold “Caldera” Caraballo’s tune “Caldera’s Mambo” in 1955 was—at the time—the only calypso performed that was composed by a steelband person - and incidentally also how he came by his name. Caldera’s |
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Revisiting - Meet Caldera Caraballo - Panist, Performing Artist, Steelband Promoter... UpClose!
Global - Mr. Caldera Caraballo is a central figure in the history and development of the steelpan movement in the USA as a panist, organizer and promoter. From winning New York’s first-ever steelband competition to organizing the New York Panorama, g
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An Apology - WIADCA Boss Speaks to New York Steelband Community
Brooklyn, New York - In an unprecedented address to members of the New York steelpan community, Mr. William R. Howard (more familiarly known as Mr. Bill Howard), president of WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association) - expressed regret
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PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2014 - from a Steelband Perspective
Global - So what’s New and Great at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2014 currently on at New York’s Jacob Javits Center - from a Pan Perspective?
....We could go on and on about the latest and greatest products. That would serve our readers no good. Too much
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“Can you hear me now?” New York Pan Stars and Brooklyn’s Steel Orchestras Rock Volume II on Pantastic Friday... 2014
New York Pan Stars perform
Brooklyn, New York, USA - The “Cultural Center of the World” is a title that New York City has earned for quite awhile now because of its size, diversity and respect for the arts. And now within the city, Brooklyn has becom
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Revisited - Meet Marc Brooks - He’s Brooklyn! From the Hood and Straight up Crazy In Love with Pan... UpClose!
Global - Meet Marc Brooks: Brooklyn native, panist, arranger, educator and performing artist... Creative, inquisitive, thoughtful, gifted and growing - Marc is a natural. He is a ‘sponge’ whose musical horizon is expanding by the moment.
Marc Brook
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New York 2014 Panorama Basement Panyard Recordings and More... UpClose!
Global - The 2014 Basement New York steelband panyard recordings captured the performances of some of the finest steel orchestras in North America. In addition, some of the world’s most outstanding and respected steelpan music arrangers participated
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St. Jude’s Private School Steelband does Nigeria proud at International Marimba & Steelpan Festival
Gauteng, South Africa - Steel band musicians of St. Jude’s Private School hailing from Festac Town in Lagos, Nigeria, represented their country well, and indeed, their part of their continent for that matter, when they participated in the 2014 Inte
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New Dimension & Commancheros Steel Orchestras Joint Champions in 2014 Grenada National Panorama
Andre Greenidge, David “Peck” Edwards - Winning Arrangers
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - It was double the joy early Sunday morning when defending champs New Dimension Steel Orchestra and challengers Commancheros Steel Orchestra were named joint winne
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Revisited -- Meet Daisy James-McClean - Panist, Lecturer, Pan Pioneer... UpClose!
Global - Mrs. Daisy James-McClean is an award-winning female steelpan musician, whose recognized list of firsts and accomplishments within the steelband movement are both significant and staggering. She is an original (Ms. McClean started playing ove
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Carnival without Kitchener - Revisited
Republished with the expressed permission the author
February 25, 2001
By Raffique Shah
THIS year’s [2001] Carnival has been dedicated to the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Fransisco), who, as a colossus of calypso, deserves every accolade that he has been
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