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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Global - Jonathan Scales plays a voguish style of pan. And he does so by articulating life and pers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
