by Dalton Narine
Global - ....For now, I’m in the Grand Stand and medium band Katzenjammers is making a play. They don’t know that their song, Edwin Pouchet’s Shock Attack, is being received as muddy water, like the Tsunami effect their instruments
Global - To Sharon Edwards, her public and private husband is one and the same.
Cool.
Well, Leon Edwards is not known as Smooth in the pantheon of steel band lore for nothing. In the late 60s, Edwards and Clyde Boland, a Trinidad All Stars bandmate,
New York, USA - In an historic pairing the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Sonatas Steel Orchestra performed together at the World F
Exclusive When Steel Talks Interview
Global - In an exclusive interview for When Steel Talks, Mary Ehikhamenor, PA to the CEO—Chief Bowie S. Bowei—of the Africa-Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company, Ltd. (ATTSDC) - gives insight into the
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Brooklyn, New York - There are very few accolades that have not been bestowed on CASYM (Caribbean American Sports & Cultural Youth Movement, Inc.) Steel Orchestra and its parent organization for success of its unparalleled musical, educational and co
An exclusive When Steel Talks interview with Andy Neils - steelpan tuner and former ace steelpan player for the legendary Renegades Steel Orchestra
Global - Andy “Max” Neils is an accomplished and outstanding steelpan tuner whose talents are sought
New York, NY, USA - The late great Andre Tanker, (Trinidadian songwriter and musician) would have been thrilled to see and hear his song “Ben Lion” being performed at an American university thousands of miles away from his land of
Brooklyn Steel Orchestras Declare War on Breast Cancer
New York, USA - On a beautiful sunny October Autumn day the New York steelpan community joined hundreds of thousands of committed New York walkers in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, when they participa
Read more…St. Joseph’s Academy and Villa Primary Steel Orchestras
remain in Winner’s Row
Antigua & Barbuda - Fourteen Antigua & Barbuda primary and secondary school steel orchestras competed in the country’s Independence school Panorama, held on the evening of
A When Steel Talks Exclusive
Global: In a carefully-worded communiqué from the office of ATTSDC’s (Africa-Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company. Ltd.) CEO Chief Bowie S. Bowei, comes a statement that regrettably, the partnership entered in
Read more…No place for geniuses - world renowned steelpan innovator disrespect
by Les Slater - Journalist & Former Highlanders Arranger
© 2012 When Steel Talks - All Rights Reserved
“... this wasn’t some anonymous John
Read more…Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - School steel orchestras will be in the spotlight in Antigua & Barbuda for the Antigua Commercial Bank National School Panorama. It will be held at the Yasco Sport complex in St. John’s on October 30th 2012 at 6:00 p.m. Steel
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New York, USA - Even as a bright and sunny weekend now looms ahead for the always-anticipated annual steel band music panorama competition in New York, many steel band music connoisseurs do n
| Toronto Wins through the Years - Panorama and “Best Beating Band on de Road” This is a work in progress, and subject to change |
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| Year | 1st place | Arranger | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2012 | Pan Fantasy | Al Foster | ||
| 2011 | Afropan | Earl La Pierre Sr. | ||
| 2010 | Salah Steelpan Acad | |||
“Chinee music” was a derisive characterization some wiseacre came up with as a putdown
Global- One of the Trinidad and Tobago dailies a few days ago carried a report about pan visionary Bertie Marshall being hospitalized, supposedly because of issues
Global - “We go be dangerous, when we come back” – and the band was indeed the ‘comeback kid’ of the 2012 season. Like the lyrics of their Panorama song, When We Come Back, Grenada’s New Dimension Steel Orchestra triumphed and did just that, turning
Babonneau Steel Orchestra retains St. Lucia title; Harmonites repeats win in Small Band Category
Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, W.I. - St. Lucia’s 2012 National Panorama saw steel orchestras competing in the large band category and in the small category.
Brazil, SA - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Pioneer, Musician, Arranger and Conductor - Soluna Garnes shares her experiences, visions and overall thoughts as she takes on the challenge of introducing the Steelpan to the country of B
Musashino-City, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese steel pan player Sasaki Kentaro who visited Trinidad and performed with Phase II Pan Groove in 2005, has a passion for Pan, and earlier this month he funneled this passion into what became the festival ‘Pan Lov
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - For the participants in the 2012 Grenada Bomb Tune competition, and those who had the good fortune to be there in person to experience it, the show was probably a good one, if 2011 and other past Bomb Tune competitions w
