The Foundry Ensemble Showcases with Andy Akiho on Steelpan - Princeton University the backdrop of Pan

The Foundry Ensemble Showcases with Andy Akiho on Steelpan
Princeton University the backdrop of Pan

Princeton, New Jersey, USA - It’s intense, yet relaxed; the familiarity of the players in the practice room in the Woolworth Music Center, just next

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A historical look at Steelpan In Guyana - Down Steelpan Memory Lane With Rudy Bishop

In A 2001 article, Guyanese Godfrey Chin writes, “On February 6, 1945, there were born two boys, different parents, different countries – one in Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica – the other, David St. Kitty, Guyana. And JA, the great African God of Music

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WST Reboot -- Flamingoes Steel Orchestra - A look at the once-renowned orchestra - yesterday, today and tomorrow

Flamingoes Steel Orchestra
A look at the once-renowned orchestra - yesterday, today and tomorrow

by Salah Wilson

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Flamingoes is a process in motion. It will take some time for the band to get back anywhere near to its form

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Panorama 2012 through the lens of Pan Podium

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The multi-talented Robbie Joseph of Pan Podium takes us on a Panorama 2012 pictorial.

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“Women’s Contribution to the Steelband Movement” -- Merle Albino-de Coteau

“Women’s Contribution to the
Steelband Movement”
Merle Albino-de Coteau

Mrs. Merle Albino-de Coteau is a retired Director of Culture, in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Women's Affairs.  She is a daughter of the soil having being

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Neville Jules Speaks - Revisted

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 and Titans of “Pan and the Steelpan Movement.” Through their intellect, ta

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Girl Pat Steel Orchestra - A Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

An excerpt from The Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan History and Evolution by Dr FIR (Fedo) Blake reads: “The most successful female venture in the steel pan movement was made by the Girl Pat Steel Orchestra of Hazel Henley of Picton Street, Newtown. Sh

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Panorama 2012 Notes - Ramajaying All Over Steel City

Global - Personal notes on live interactions from Panorama 2012 by journalist, pan historian, musician and film editor Dalton Narine. 

 

The thoughts of the likes of the legendary Anthony Williams and Len “Boogsie” Sharpe; the raw words of Pan Trinba

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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra And The 50th Panorama

by Dalton Narine

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Desperadoes wasn’t at the finals on Panorama night, in part because the average fan could have hardly recognized the personality of the band, though 42-year tenor player Ursula Tudor stood out as usual.

 

 

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Antigua - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form Tribute To Women In Pan

Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form

Tribute To Women In Pan - Antigua

Woman On Pan

My name is Dotsie Isaac Gellizeau. I am an Antiguan mother, a sister, a wife, a writer and above all else a - renaissance woman.  Women doing their natural

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The Women from Trinidad's "First Family of Pan" KAREN and KEISHA Codrington of the Pan Family Steel Orchestra

Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form

The Women from Trinidad's "First Family of Pan" KAREN and KEISHA Codrington of the Pan Family Steel Orchestra

Karen Codrington - Co-Manager, Treasurer  

Karen is a very serious and disciplined young woma

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WOMAN IN PAN -- Mark E. Loquan -- Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form

Tribute To Women In Pan - 2005

WOMAN IN PAN
Mark E. Loquan

VERSE
One could say women contribute literacy
To the whole evolution in pan
Like the case of our women  conductors
And adjudicators, dey cont

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Pan Visionary Hollis Clifton in the Spotlight

A SteelpanVibes interview by Barbara Sealy Rhoden

Florida, USA -  ....It was during my student tenure in England in the early 1970s, as fate would have it I became a member of the Ebony Steelband. But, with the social stigma attached to the steelban

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Steelband Pioneer & Arranger Junior Pouchet Remembered: Eulogy

by Dalton Narine

Global - Since I spoke with Les Slater this morning about the passing of Junior Pouchet (pictured), related to me by his family in Orlando, I’ve been playing Silver Stars’ double CD, 27 cuts by Junior’s band and nine by his brother E

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Glenroy Joseph - Pan Enthusiast, Pan & Calypso Media Cataloger & Collector- speaks on Pan & Panorama 2012

Glenroy Joseph - Pan Enthusiast, Pan & Calypso Media Cataloger & Collector- speaks on Pan & Panorama 2012
 

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - Pan Enthusiast, Carnival, Pan & Calypso Media Cataloger & Collector - Glenroy R. Jo

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Dr. Dawn Batson - Tribute To Women In Pan

Florida, USA - She is one of the world's foremost experts, educators and promoters of the steelpan instrument.  Her name is synonymous with inspiring and guiding  young musicians to achievement, greatness and academic excellence.  When Steel Talks

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Cliff Alexis, Steel Pan Trail-Blazer in Academia

The linchpin for the NIU steelpan program’s success

by Les Slater

Global - “Do you want me to lose my job?” That was the reaction Clifford Alexis remembers he and the man who was his mentor at Northern Illinois University (NIU), Prof. Al O’Connor, g

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Jamettes … Steelband Essentials By Barbara Sealy Rhoden

Jamettes …
    Steelband Essentials
    By Barbara Sealy Rhoden

History is replete with examples of the outstanding African woman, who not only cared for their family, she ruled nations with justice, fortitude and wisdom. Moreover, she consorted wit

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Toward Standardized Pans - Revisted

Toward Standardized Pans

by Bert Boldon

Some say that given pan music’s relative newness, which makes ongoing exploration in the tuning area a foregone conclusion, any move toward standardized instruments would be premature. For others, such talk jus

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Rachel Hayward – A British Pan Woman

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

This March marks the 25th anniversary of my involvement with pan. Forty years ago pans were introduced into British schools through the efforts of renowned pan pioneers such as Gerald Forsyth and Russell

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