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Legends and Pillars of the Steelpan Music Art Form - Who is Mikey Enoch?

Listen to the late iconic steelpan pioneer, tuner and panist Mikey Enoch in his own voice.

This seminar was captured at a When Steel Talks/Basement Recordings pan class in the early 1990s.

Tuner Mikey Enoch was unequivocally one of the pillars of the

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T& T Together: Republic Day Concert

We're celebrating Republic Day with “T&T Together” – an exciting concert featuring our Digicel Ambassadors backed by the A Team Band

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Who Knew? The Steelpan - the Tenor - proves the mightiest of challenges in Amazing Race 32’s first leg

It ain’t that easy - playing a Pan, that is

Global - So who knew that the Tenor voice of the steelpan family of instruments, would prove to apparently be the most difficult challenge for some team members on the CBS Amazing Race’s latest season pr

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Panist in need

Rubadiri Victor

This is what I'm trying to get the politicians to understand... A Youth from my community who is a brilliant panman and a leading light amongst wayward peers has reached the end of his rope...

He plays pan and does gardening and od

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A Moment in Pan - Condolences to the family and friends of Shafeeq Muhammad

When Steel talks eextends condolences to the friends and family of Shafeeq Muhammad

 

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Meet Lauren Pierre - Administrator, Planner, Panist - UpClose & Personal!

“I truly believe that work shouldn’t feel like work. If steelpan is your passion, work hard at your craft and you will succeed. Be courageous.” –– Lauren Pierre

She is a straight-up game changer. Highly intelligent, skilled and yet she remains humbl

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Vietnam Follies

In another When Steel Talks exclusive, the legendary award-winning journalist, film maker and panist Dalton Narine - presents a riveting, gut wrenching and enthralling account of some of his personal experiences and memories as a Viet Nam combat vete

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Update - Panist in Need

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Some Panmen of the 1950s by Ian Lambie

Some Panmen of the 1950s
by Ian Lambie

I am fully aware of the excellent contributions made by Ellie Mannette and Andrew “Pan” de la Bastide to the advancement of “pan” in the USA and by Anthony “Tony” Williams at home. I decided to write about lesse

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Reboot -- Who Give Them the Okay? — A Brooklyn J’Ouvert Story -- by Garvin Blake

Most people claim Brooklyn J’Ouvert officially started in the late 1980s in Flatbush. But here’s Kitchener in 1974 singing “Who Give Them the Okay”, a tune about a J’Ouvert in Bedford Stuyvesant. Assembling on Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue, the

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Meet Wayne Bernard - Manager, Administrator, Panist - Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra

“I do not believe there is a challenge that would be difficult for this generation because it is some of the same people who have grown up in steelpan during the same tough and challenging times. With that being said, this generation has a creative

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Reboot -- Labor Day minus Labor Day by Garvin Blake

Brooklyn, New York, USA - For most New Yorkers Labor Day signals the passing of Summer: back-to-school, early sunsets, dropping temperatures. However, for West Indians, the heat is on.

Frustrated masqueraders impatiently waiting to collect costumes

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Revisited -- Dr. Dawn Batson -- Education & Pan - An Exclusive with When Steel Talks

“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  caught Dr. Dawn B

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The APA Pan Fellowship

The APA Pan Fellowship is a groundbreaking new programme offering participants a culturally immersive and practical learning environment, infused with the traditions of steelpan, in the wider context of indigenous percussion and pan-Caribbean music

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Meet Nevin Roach - Executive Producer of PanoGrama, Entrepreneur, Visionary and Panist

“The feedback was amazing! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the competition from start to finish. People loved the production, the engaging nature of the show, the live performances from soca artistes and other acts among many other things. I spent weeks

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Streaming Services and the Artist by Leon Foster Thomas

These streaming services are not really pushing for folks to buy an artist's music. Instead, their main push is for you to purchase a subscription to THEIR (spotify, apple etc...) streaming service. Per stream, an artist recoups $0.00676 (google) wh

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Pan As A Developing Art Form by Ansel Joseph

The world is waiting for us to sprout wings and fly while keeping an honest respect and reverence for our history and culture... Ansel joseph

From Rudy Smith, Ray Holman, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, Othello Molineaux, Andy Narell, and Robert Greenidge to

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Robert Greenidge, Khuent Rose and Andre White speak about the Six-Pan

As far as WST (When Steel Talks) is aware, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago, and Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra of Brooklyn, New York, are the only orchestras that employ the six-pan as a regular voice in their orchestra.  As of Summ

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Congratulations 2020 International Pan Ramajay

Results Finals | Semi-Finals > Soloists  -  Duets  -  Qu

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Meet Earl Brooks Jr. - Performing Artist, Instructor, Arranger - UpClose!

New York, USA - “The instrument is amazing as is; however, it’s the organizations and people of power that give it the wrong attention.” - Earl Brooks Jr.

The name “Brooks” resonates deep and loud in the world of Pan. There is the iconic Earl Brook

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