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

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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!

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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

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!

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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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Complete Summary of Results of all Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2020 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At a glance and on a single page, access the comprehensive summary of results for the Small, Medium and Large conventional steel orchestras that participated in their respective categories in the 2020 Panorama.

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Pan Trinbago -- Closure of Offices in the wake of COVID-19

Bulletin – Closure of Offices in the wake of COVID-19

As the world and Trinidad & Tobago adjust to the impact of the COVID-19, Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. is being guided by recommendation of the Off

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