Meet Tamika Alexander - New York, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

New York, USA - After ten years with one of New York’s powerhouse steel orchestras, Tamika Alexander could be described as being ‘Despers USA to the bone!’ She is impassioned about, as she calls him “M

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Revisiting - Khan Cordice in the Spotlight

An exclusive interview with this youthful musician, arranger
and performing steelpan artist from Antigua & Barbuda

St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -  Meet Khan Cordice, the eighteen-year-old youthful arranger for the National Youth Pan Orchestra

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Meet Jelani Cielto - Panist Extraordinaire

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Jelani Cielto a special talent? Absolutely.  He also has that type of gift that makes a very select few see partial differential equations as child’s play. Blessed with the innate ability of a photographic memory, he has

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Visa joins the Ramajay

“Visa is proud to support Republic Bank Exodus Pan Ramajay and bring experiences as unique as the Trinidad and Tobago DNA.” – said Waldemar Cordero, Head of Marketing for Central America and Caribbean, as he announced Visa’s support for Pan Ramajay

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Just Listen - BSO Holds It Down at the International Panorama

Brooklyn Steel Orchestra - ‘Ah Feeling’ - Live On Stage

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Meet Ronica Gordon - Trinidad and Tobago

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Her vision for Pan - “For the national instrument to be treated as such, for pan men and women to be secured after retirement, for steelpan to reach as far as being featured o

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Meet Tiajuana Hernandez - Trinidad & Tobago Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “The stigma of pan being from the bowels of society, involving “badjohns” or the thought that steelpan music is noise or “wine or jam” that exemplifies the devil... Because I believe it is so much more than this. The ab

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Meet Debra “Sista Dee” Sarjeant - Massachusetts, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Massachusetts, USA - “...People are just amazed at what comes out of the pan, they want to know if you can play all types of musical keys, they check underneath to see where is all that sound is coming from...” -- Debra “Sista Dee” Sarjeant

Her pa

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Meet Kianna Carrington - New York, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

New York, USA - “What disappoints me the most is that people don’t see the blood, sweat, and tears it takes to run a steel band. They don’t see the dedication we put into making the bands great...” -- Kianna Carrington

‘Pan’ runs in her family bac

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Meet Jamal Gibbs - Educator, Arranger, Panist - UpClose & Personal!

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “My advice to the young panists would be to stay humble and strive for highest and to always be yourself in all that you do.” –– Jamal Gibbs

The music of the steelband is his life and passion. In a When Steel Talks exclus

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'And Great Showers of Tears Came Down' by steelpan historian and award-winning filmmaker Dalton Narine

The short film/documentary 'And Great Showers of Tears Came Down' by steelpan historian and award-winning filmmaker Dalton Narine, won awards at several film festivals. The score was composed by the late roycrosse, who also delivers the steelpan per

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Pantonic Steel Orchestra - “Stranger” - (‘Panorama’ version - Video) Clive Bradley - Arranger

Brooklyn, New York, USA - A Clive Bradley-arrangement of Shadow’s 2001 composition “Stranger” performed by Pantonic Steel Orchestra.  This is the HD video and audio captured by Basement Recordings of the band’s Panorama performance.  Pantonic would g

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Panorama Skills on the Home Front? NO, MEMORIAL DAY 2020

Panorama Skills on the Home Front? NO, MEMORIAL DAY 2020

by panist and Vietnam veteran Dalton Narine

Global - ....Grandfather was flown back to Venezuela, and later Trinidad, where they named Gonzales, Belmont, after him. Rudolph Charles [“Charlo”]

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Meet Yasmin Brito - Ontario, Canada - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

“Time waits on no one. If you enjoy the musical instrument, find a band and become a member. Don’t keep saying “I always wanted to... Just Do It! .....” - Yasmin Brito

At 12 years old she was playing pan in a steelband. And while the neighbors had l

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Meet Florence “Flo” Ghany - Trinidad & Tobago

“There seems to be a greater need to explore and experience more especially by our youth. Their musical appetite seems quite encompassing and the loyalty to a single band as in the earlier years seems to be a thing of the past. Not that this is nece

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Meet Aviel Scanterbury - Performing Artist, Educator, Arranger and Panist

“My vision is simply for the steelpan to be played in every country in the world and to be viewed as a popular instrument. Way too many persons still don’t know about the instrument and its history even in Trinidad and Tobago.” –– Aviel Scanterbury

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Meet Karima Mohan - Atlanta, Georgia - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Atlanta, Georgia, USA - “As the instrument becomes more mainstream, we can’t let the uniqueness of the sound be lost through synthesizing. The steelpan is its own instrument and sometimes in our quest to show that it can play anything, we sometimes

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Meet Selena Antoine - New York, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

“I have always felt that there is a difference between hearing a band play a song, and actually playing within the band to hear the song.  The vibe is so much greater when standing in a band and I love the feeling.  With Panorama, it is like that fe

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Meet Cheryl Cummins-Holder - Canada - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Toronto, Canada - “Being a member of Panatics Steelband Network is being part of a family. We vary in ages and we have siblings, mothers and their children, and friends. We look out for each other by

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Dalton Narine on Neville Jules - UpClose & Personal!

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

Neville was a strong man, a God of the instrument. We played by his rules...

“The Brass gave me a break and I stumbled through Port of Spain, where I reconnected with Neville Jules and Leon “Smooth” Edwards at the Henry

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