Well done! UKASPO (UK All Steel Percussion Orchestra) - (Ebony Steelband, Mangrove Steelband, Croydon and Metronomes steel orchestras) performs at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration

London, United Kingdom - When Steel Talks extends congratulations to all involved in the historical grand steel orchestra music production for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee outside Buckingham Palace on Sunday 5 June 2022.

It was an awesome performa

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Remembering Our Brother Michael Marcano by Andre Moses

Michael Marcano

The first School Steelband Music Festival was held in 1981, hosted by Pan Trinbago and sponsored by the organization’s profits from that year’s edition of Champs in Concert. The second edition of the biennial festival, in 1983, was

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Legendary Panman Rudy 'Two Left' Smith

Rudy 'Two Left' Smith

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Rudy Smith Quartet performing at Moods im Schiffbau

Zürich, Switzerland.

21st November 2007

Rudy Smith - Steelpan

Chris Wiesendanger - Grand Piano

Jonas Tauber - Contrabass

Dieter Ulrich - Drums

Video by Pe

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St. Lucia Panorama 2022 Results - Champions Again - Babonneau Steel Orchestra Retains Title with Arranger Allison Marquis

St. Lucia, W.I. - After two years of no official Panorama activity in St. Lucia due to COVID-19, the competition stage at the SAB in Castries came alive with four bands taking on defending champions Babonneau Steel Orchestra. The band, led musicall

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Carnegie Hall Citywide: Pan in Motion with Asphalt Orchestra at Bryant Park - “To Jam too”

Kendall Williams of Pan in Motion composes “To Jam too” (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

Pan in Motion at with Asphalt Orchestra at Bryant Park

New York, New York, USA - With the backdrop of concrete, steel and green, green, grass

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Renegades & manager Michael Marcano ready for 2007 South Panorama Finals

Trinidad & Tobago Steelband Panorama 2007

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

A WST Exclusive

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Renegades is into the homestretch, quite excited and ‘very optimistic’ about their upcomi

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Kitchener - King of de Road by Garvin Blake (in homage of the Grandmaster’s 100th Birthday)

Aldwyn “Kitchener” Roberts

April 18th, 2022 marks the centennial of Aldwyn “Kitchener” Roberts’ birth. The Grandmaster in the art of calypso, Kitchener’s music provides unique insights into Trinidadian culture. He was a griot, singing colorful tal

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to nurse and panist Diane Thomas

Diane Thomas

Happy Birthday to Diane Thomas

February 16th

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to panist, Diane Thomas

“Playing with others who play steel pan is really where I find my true happiness, whether it is a duo or a small group of

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March is the month we celebrate Women. A few weeks ago we laid to rest the most brilliant, humble and caring woman I've ever known. Mommy loved her plants, children and of course Pan. March 23 was her birthday.

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Where in the world is When Steel Talks?

Many of the legendary early influencers and participants in the development of the steelpan movement have their navel strings directly and/or indirectly buried in this island. From Desperadoes to Fonclaire - Winston "Spree" Simon to Allan Gervais amo

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Lord Kitchener and Pan Music: A Match Made in Heaven

Presentation from the Kitchener symposium held at Medgar Evers College - Brooklyn, New York, USA

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

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NESTOR SULLIVAN - Happy Birthday from When Steel Talks

NESTOR SULLIVAN was born in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago. He attended the St. Joseph Boys’ R.C. School, and later went on to attend St. Mary’s College, and subsequently Teacher’s Training College. At the tertiary level he obtained a Master of Arts

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Claudette Baptiste - President, Administrator, Band leader - Women’s Month - Their Voice, Their Life, Their Dreams, Their Passion, Their Story

When Steel Talks - Reboot

Meet Claudette Baptiste - the late President of Women in Steel

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Claudette Baptiste

Brooklyn, New York, USA - ..This passion for young people led her to the birth of Women In St

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Lord Kitchener and Pan Music Have A Thing Going

When Steel Talks - Reboot

Ken Philmore and Lord Kitchener

Lord Kitchener and Pan Music Have A Thing Going

by Les Slater

Panorama reviewer: “Almost everything else was some version of the simple chord structure abundant in the music of Lord Kitchen

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TUCO cancels calypso, extempo competitions

Newsday -- MELISSA DOUGHTY

Former calypso monarch Karene Asche. -

THE National Calypso and Extempo Monarch competitions have been cancelled.

A release from the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) on Tuesday evening said the decision

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Eighty-plus steelbands have registered for “A Taste of Carnival 2022”

Eighty-plus steelbands have registered for Pan Trinbago’s events in the “A Taste of Carnival 2022”.

The bands, 16 Large, 23 Medium, 23 Small and 27 Single Pan Bands will audition for places in the two events hosted by the pan body from this weekend.

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When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to award winning composer, panist, educator, arranger & performing musician Andy Akiho

Andy Akiho

Happy Birthday to Andy Akiho

February 7th

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to panist, Andy Akiho

“Panorama is life -

...It was a life-changing experience” - Andy Akiho

Calm, unassuming, and extremely humble -
Andy’s deme

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to panist, composer, arranger & educator Liam Teague

Happy Birthday to Liam Teague

January 13th

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to panist, Liam Teague

“I have always viewed the Panorama “arranger” to be more of a composer than an arranger. After one arranges the original melody of a song

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Calliope's Children Steel Orchestra

The Calliope's Children Steel Orchestra toured Russia and Poland in 1975 and 1977. Here they are performing Chorale-Cantata # 130 by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... click for more info http://www.panonthenet.com/news/2011/mar/layden/Calliopes-Children-S

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Dr. Anthony Williams - The Prometheus of Pan by Garvin Blake

Global - Anthony Williams died on Tuesday, December 21st, leaving behind an unmatched legacy. Tony helped shape every aspect of the modern steelband. For me, and countless others, his passing was personal.

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Well done! UKASPO (UK All Steel Percussion Orchestra) - (Ebony Steelband, Mangrove Steelband, Croydon and Metronomes steel orchestras) performs at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration

Remembering Our Brother Michael Marcano by Andre Moses

Legendary Panman Rudy 'Two Left' Smith

St. Lucia Panorama 2022 Results - Champions Again - Babonneau Steel Orchestra Retains Title with Arranger Allison Marquis

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Pan in Motion with Asphalt Orchestra at Bryant Park - “To Jam too”

Renegades & manager Michael Marcano ready for 2007 South Panorama Finals