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Daryl C. Joseph - Psychologist and Lifelong Panist for Trinidad All Stars - speaks on Pan & Panorama 2012

Daryl C. Joseph - MA, CEAP, Psychologist and Panist - speaks on Pan & Panorama 2012
 

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - psychologist and lifelong panist for Trinidad All Stars - Daryl C. Joseph - shares his overall views on P

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Michelle Huggins-Watts - Defending Champion Arranger - speaks on Panorama 2012

Michelle Huggins-Watts - Defending Champion Arranger - speaks on Panorama 2012
 

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, educator and arranger - Michelle Huggins-Watts , shares her visions and overall thoughts on

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Ainsworth Mohammed, CEO of Exodus Steel Orchestra speaks on Panorama 2012

Global -  Meet the chief executive officer for the acclaimed Exodus Steel Orchestra, Ainsworth Mohammed. In a frank and candid interview Mr. Mohammed shares his views on a host of issues surrounding Panorama past, present and future. Ainsworth Mohamm

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Arranger Liam Teague - on Panorama 2012 & more

Global -  In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, the prolific steelpan artist, educator and composer speaks about Panorama 2012 and more. Liam Teague is currently the arranger for Starlift Steel Orchestra...

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George D. Goddard - speaks on the legacy of the Warrior for Pan - George Goddard Sr., Pan, Panorama 2012

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks -  musician, writer, activist, panist - George D. Goddard, shares his overall views on Pan, Panorama and his father George "Sonny" Goddard one of the most important figures in the history of p

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The Year in Pan - 2011 in Review

Global- There were many highlights, high points, low points and things that were straight up strange in the realm of Pan in 2011. Pepe Francis, director of Ebony Steelband Trust and chairman of the BAS received MBE honors for services to Steel Pan Mu

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Codrington Pan Family - Ace Steelband music artists, arrangers and leaders speak on Panorama 2012

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - arrangers from the accomplished Codrington Pan Family—Cary, Khari and Keisha—share their thoughts overall on Panorama - its present and future, and their expected role in charting a new cours

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Full Blown Entertainment - Meet the Hart Brothers

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, FBE (Full Blown Entertainment)—brothers Kevon and Kory Hart—highlights the journey to their now-established position as a successful, in-demand songwriting duo on the Trinidad & Tobago music s

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Exclusive Interview - Clive Bradley - Master Arranger - Panorama 2004 - Up-close!

The stage is set. It is two weeks before panorama finals. Master arranger Clive Bradley is applying his craft with much success as the legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra find themselves in second place coming out of the semi final rounds of the co

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Revisited - Merle Albino-de Coteau - Steelband Music pioneer, adjudicator, educator speaks on Panorama 2012

“...sometimes describing oneself as a Panist can be met with disgust and even discrimination. The question which follows is “What else do you do?” ...the area from which you have come also sometimes brings discrimination.”  Merle Albino-de Coteau.

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It’s Steelband Time in Nigeria with the Third Secondary Schools’ Panorama

Nigeria - The first day of November is a day of Steelpan in Nigeria, as the Nigerian Schools Steelband Panorama is held for the third time. Last year, seven steel orchestras participated in the event and this year, additional schools which were in th

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Hanging with Steel Panist Extraordinaire Emmanuel “Jack” Riley

Tobago, W.I. - We are at Scott’s Holiday Apartments, in Mt. Pleasant, Tobago [for Pazzaz, the Pan Jazz show held earlier this year on April 29 in Tobago]: panist Jason “Peanuts” Isaac, Fitzroy “Poporoy” Henry, Riley and myself, Keith Anderson. Riley

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Shenelle Abraham - Steelband Music Arranger for Panorama 2012 - Skiffle Bunch

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Shenelle Abraham, current arranger for Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra, talks about Panorama 2012, her first time out as an arranger for a large steel orchestra, and much more. Shenelle is known

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Looking back - Musical Tributes Celebrate the Life of Ralph MacDonald

Global - Many came to celebrate and pay homage to the vibrant life and achievements of Grammy-winner and steelband enthusiast Ralph MacDonald, at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, USA. The steelpan music fraternity was well represente

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Godfrey Camps – from Steelband Captain to Bartender

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Godfrey Camps was at the tender age of thirteen when he had his first brush with the national instrument of his native Trinidad & Tobago. At that time Melody Makers was situated at the corner of Coffee and Drayton street

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PDN PhotoPlus Expo - Technology, The Immediacy of Now and the Steelpan Music Movement

New York, USA - Terry Joseph, the late entertainment editor for the Trinidad and Tobago national newspaper the Trinidad Express, once joked while lamenting (simultaneously impressed and irritated) that, in going through his normal routine after takin

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Remembering Lovely Latavia... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Tenor bass player

New York, USA - .- Miguel Reyes’s The Last Band sung by Peter D’Royce was the last Panorama piece lovely Latavia Deane got to perform with Despers USA Steel Orchestra, when the band competed in the 2010 New York Panorama. A song that makes one dance

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Vignettes of Pan History - The Montreal Story

Pan  magazine (the brain child of Dalton Narine and Les Slater) remains simply the finest steelpan music publication ever printed.  WST revisits another article from the magazine originally published in the Fall of 1987.  Thanks again to Dalton Narin

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Revisited -- Champion Arranger (Exodus Steel Orchestra) Pelham Goddard Speaks - Upclose!

He is one of the most celebrated musicians out of the Caribbean in this era, having composed, produced and/or arranged - some of the most respected music masterpieces that have become deeply and proudly associated with the Caribbean. “The Hammer, “Sa

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Looking Back -- Meet Andre White - Arranger for ADLIB Steel Orchestra - Up close!

Global - He is immensely talented, intelligent, unpretentious, thankful, hard-working and focused. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks (WST) - champion steelband panorama arranger Andre White - fresh from his victories in the UK Panorama

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