New York, USA - “....The feeling I get when I’m playing – it’s like I can feel the music running through my body. Playing pan invoked so many positive emotions. I found myself thinking about it 24/7.
Coral Harbour Base, 19 FEB. ‘19 (RBDF): With the air of a salute befitting royalty, members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force are paying special tribute to Sir Sidney Poitier in recognition of his ninety-second birthday on Wednesday 20 February 20
Trinidad and Tobago- In regards to Pan: "We don’t know the value of what we have. Imagine how awesome we would be if we did.” Never on the sidelines, always in the mix, cultural and social activist A
New York, USA - Mustafa Alexander, who started playing pan in New York during the Bradley-Pantonic years, experienced special moments in New York pan first-hand as he learned and expanded his skill set as a steelband musician under the great Cl
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
Global - Meet the chief executive officer for the acclaimed Exodus Steel Orchestra, Ainsworth Mohammed. In a frank and candid interview Mr. Mohammed shares his views on a host of issues surrounding Panorama past, present and future. Ainsworth Mohamm
Grammy-winning blues star and Compton native Keb’ Mo’ is releasing the 13-song “Good to be” album on Jan. 21. The new album was written between his homes in Nashville and Compton. (Photo by Jeremy Cowart)
You know BSO has got it going on when folks are walking off the streets in the Big Apple and are ready to drop a Spike Lee's "fitty" just to check out the show - because of the music leaking out of the building.
Global -In the inner circles of Soca music creation and production, the name Jovan James is well known, as he has singularly written, or co-written, hits for some of the biggest Soca stars in Caribbean. The list reads like a who’s who of heavy hi
Pan Explosion – The Making of The Jit Samaroo Sound
by Garvin Blake
Global -Recording and performing artist Garvin Blake provides an in-depth and careful look at that defining moment when one of the most important musicians in the history of the ste
“Jit Samaroo was the consummate musician. He created a lasting body of wonderful music for the steel orchestra but his humility, his quiet strength, his willingness to share his knowledge and wealth of experience, left a blueprint for musical life...
CLIVE ZANDA IS DEAD. The King is Dead! Long Live the King!!! This is one of the greatest losses we have experienced to date- and we have experienced ALOT(!!!)- because Clive Zanda was virtually untapped as a resource (even after contributing so much)
Global -Robert W. Cadet, Jr. better known as Junior Cadet started playing Pan at the age of 10 in New York. The first band he played for is now known as Harmony Music Makers; he then moved on to Metro and other bands. In 1997 when his father, Robert
New York, USA -In the midst of all the joy, happiness and goodwill that 2019’s “Pan Is Sweet” generated, there was a bitter-sweet moment of deep pain and reflection coupled with happy memories, as Brooklyn Steel Orchestra (BSO) honored and remem
When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of veteran calypsonian and panist Kenny J. He died from COVID yesterday afternoon (January 1st).
Kenwrick “Kenny J” Joseph was born at Prince of Wales Street in San Fernando, Trinidad. H
Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband performs at Expo '67 in Montreal, Canada ("A troupe of dancers and the 22 members of the’ National Steelband left for Expo ‘67 on August 11, I was manager of the band. The 22 panmen were: - [pict
