Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago set up Lagos-based Steelband Development Company

Lagos, Nigeria - Panland, Nigeria received some visitors from Trinidad and Tobago in August 2011. Keith Diaz - Pan Trinbago president, Ladi Franklin - Co-Chairperson of the Nigeria-Trinidad & Tobago chamber, Taharqa Obika, as well as the High Commiss

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Scipio “Sarge” Sargeant - An Exclusive Interview with When Steel Talks - Revistited

The late 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 Pa

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Ron Berridge, Caribbean Music Extraordinaire speaks on the Steelpan and More

Ron Berridge, Caribbean Music Extraordinaire speaks on the Steelpan and More

 

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, musician great Ron Berridge shares his thoughts on Caribbean music and Pan. He is simply one of the most influent

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Vanessa ‘Pans’ her way to the top at Berklee College of Music - gains full scholarship

San Fernando, Trinidad, W.I. - Vanessa Headley continues her high-profile rise to music fame with the steelpan instrument as her 'vehicle' of choice. A few weeks ago Headley completed the Five-Week Summer Performance Programme at the Berklee College

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Revisiting - New York 2011 Steel Orchestra Panorama in REVIEW - the good, the bad, the ugly

New York 2011 Steel Orchestra Panorama in REVIEW
 

New York, USA - The good, the bad, the ugly and things that leave me SMH & LMAO about 2011 New York Panorama. When Steel Talks reviews the 2011 New York panorama season in total.

 

The week leading

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Meet Seion Gomez - Arranger for Metro Steel Orchestra - Up close!

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - educator, champion steelband panorama arranger and steelpan performing artist Seion Gomez talks about his musical path to becoming one the respected young arrangers for the steelband art form

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RUDY KING - the Man who introduced Steelpan to America in an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks (11-11-02)

An interview with the late Rudy King

Rudy King at WST studios

The year was 1949, and the music scene in America would never be the same. That is the year that Rudy King, aka 'Rock' and 'Rudolph Carter' - (to those who knew him as a young boy/man i

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Revisited - Kim Loy Wong - Taking Pan to the Americans

Kim Loy Wong - Taking Pan to the Americans
 

Global - 

On arrival in New York Wong wasted no time in starting over a dozen Steel Drum programs for delinquent/ghetto children ranging from 5 years old to late teens. These included the Henry Street Sett

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Conspiring To Pigeonhole Pan, And That’s Cool?

Has Trinidad and Tobago dropped the ball on the steelpan?

Conspiring To Pigeonhole Pan, And That’s Cool?
  by Les Slater -
Chairman of the T & T Folk Arts Institute and former Highlanders Steel Orchestra arranger

Global - I don’t know if he remembers

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Johnathan Scales, Panist From Another Planet

In The Middle of a Couple of Different Worlds

JONATHAN SCALES, PANIST FROM ANOTHER PLANET

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ROBERT GREENIDGE - In His Own Words... A When Steel Talks Exclusive - The Great One in the Spotlight Revisited

ROBERT GREENIDGE - In His Own Words... A When Steel Talks Exclusive
The Great One in the Spotlight Revisited

New York, USA - Producer, champion arranger, composer, recording and performing artist, Robert Greenidge is simply one of the finest panist

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Ace Panists Freddie Harris, III & Mustafa Alexander light up the Kemah Pan Jam Festival

Ace Panists Freddie Harris, III & Mustafa Alexander light up the Kemah Pan Jam Festival

Texas, USA - Two of New York’s well-known panists - Freddie Harris, III and Mustafa Alexander - made the trip down south to Texas not too long ago as the headline

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Rise of the Steelband in Guyana

Rise of the Steelband in Guyana

Submitted by and published with the express permission of the author - the late Godfrey Chin

Tribute to steelbands before Mash 1970 - By Godfrey Chin

By 1953 local bands sprouted throughout the mudland from Bartica t

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Champion Steelband Arranger Earl Rodney in the Spotlight - Revisited

New York, USA - He is one of the esteemed champion arrangers of the Golden Era of pan. His name, like the other great ones, carries much respect and recognition. And like his fellow famed steelband music panorama arrangers - one name will suffice as

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Revisited -- Destra Garcia - as you have never heard her before - her love for the SteelPan instrument, the passion & pain behind her songwriting

Global - Destra Garcia of Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most successful and popular SOCA music artists in the world. Like Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Mary J and others, Destra has cultivated and maintained a special bond with her adoring young fans who

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Steelband Music Classic Performances

There are musical compositions, arrangements, and performances that are undeniably musical gems. Moreover they are true classics that have weathered the test of time. These classics continue to shine irrespective of the era, changes in musical taste

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Lord Kitchener and Pan Music Have A Thing Going

Lord Kitchener and Pan Music Have A Thing Going
by Les Slater

Brooklyn, New York

“I made the steel band a real study. I know the runs and the notes that mean something to the sound of the band. I can hear the sound of the tenor pan.”

It is to our

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A Look At the Great Steel Orchestras of the past

      

© 2013 When Steel Talks - All Rights Reserved

Republished from PAN Summer 1988 - Vol.3 No.1
Provided by, and republished with the expressed permission of, PAN Magazine

by Dalton Narine

The best you can say about anything is that it is the gre

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