Remembering the Late Great Karen Codrington Matriarch of the Codrington Pan Family

 Karen Codrington matriarch of the Codrington Pan Family

“It is very challenging juggling the different roles as a house-wife, mom, and musician. For example, sometimes I might be practicing at the pan yard while at the same time worrying about the

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How an Impossible Steel Drum Gets Built

The New Yorker - By Richard Preston

Five years ago, Josh Quillen, a member of Sō Percussion, a Brooklyn-based music ensemble, spoke with a maker and tuner of steel drums named Kyle Dunleavy about building a potentially unworkable design. Musical ste

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Meet Hope Munro Smith of - California State University, Chico, CA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Trinidad Á Tobago - With a genuine interest in the contributions of women to music globally she fell deeply in love with Trinidad and Tobago's culture, music and Pan. She is a steelpan musician, autho

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Meet the first woman in the history of Antigua & Barbuda who will arrange for a National Panorama

“At age 25 I will be a first time, female arranger on a National Panorama stage and I want that to inspire other women to take that leap….it is humbling and a great burden at the same time. I am ready for the challenge. ” 

She is an educator, perform

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Happy Birthday - Meet Amanda Lawrence of Dominica

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Dominica, W.I. - From the Caribbean island of Dominica to the Ivy League walls of Princeton University, the pan has always been by her side. It is simply her joy. Her romance with the pan and pan cult

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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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Meet Anesha Carbon - United Kingdom - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Anesha Carbon
United Kingdom

London, U.K. - “Pan itself, I don’t think I would change anything. I think it would just be people outside of the community’s views. It’s not ‘tin pan,’ ’dustbin lids,‘ you shouldn’t knock the instrument with your

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Reboot - Joker, the Bard of Trinidad by Raffique Shah

published with the expressed permission of the author  
(Originally published in the Sunday Express)

© 2021 -  All Rights Reserved

I imagine that like me, most calypso aficionados first became aware of the existence of the late Winsford ‘Joker’ Devi

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SONGS (CALYPSOS) WRITTEN by WINSFORD DEVINE -- PRAISE THE LIVING!!!

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Revisiting - Songwriter, PanMan Winsford “Joker” Devine - the Man, the Songs, the Legend - UpClose!

He is one of the most prolific, well-known songwriters to have ever walked the planet. With over 600 (six hundred) songs under his belt and to his credit, his songs have shaped and influenced generations. And in no short order he is one of the great

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Happy Birthday to Candice Andrews-Brumant of Renegades Steel Orchestra

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Candice Andrews-Brumant, captain of Renegades Steel Orchestra.

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Passing of an Icon - RIP -- Ursula Tudor... Desperadoes Steel Orchestra's First Lady of Pan

Ursula Tudor, Junior ‘Man’ Samuel,  Anthony ‘Binks’ James

When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of the iconic Ms. Ursula Tudor of the legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. She will be severely missed by the glob

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Veteran calypsonian Singing Sandra (Sandra Des Vignes-Millington) has passed

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of  Singing Sandra (Sandra Des Vignes-Millington)

SINGING SANDRA

REAL NAME: Sandra Des Vignes

DATE OF BIRTH: 1957

PLACE OF BIRTH: East Dry River, Port-of-Spain

EDUCATION: ...

CAREER: Sa

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A Moment in Greatness - Cicely Tyson

“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.” - Cicely Tyson

RIP C

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Remembering the late great Cicely Tyson - (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021)

Cicely Tyson and Bobbi Humphrey brought spoken word and music as Ms. Tyson in her always regal manner read "I, Too" by Langston Hughes.

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Remembering the late great Clifford "Rope" Alfred - Tuner and Panist

Global - “In 1973 he migrated to Venezuela where he further developed his skills as a tuner of great merit, by tuning pans of different styles of other tuners who had passed through Venezuela and left their pans there. After nine years in Venezuela

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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 Mikela Simmons - Antigua & Barbuda

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

In regards to Pan: "The moment I would have to say I am most proud of, would be last year, when I won my first competition as an arranger.” In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Mikela Sim

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The genius of the late great Shadow compared to iconic poet William Blake by scholar and author Bukka Rennie.

(May – 1999)

William Blake a British philosopher- a poet who lived in the period 1757-1827 wrote the following words in one of his poems: “O see a world in a grain of sand/And heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eterni

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Reboot - Panist Sergio Boré, percussionist, featured in the Brazilian Times

by Ari Mendes 

Sergio Boré, percussionist, composer, researcher, spiritual and creator of musical nuances.

One of the most recognized Brazilian percussionists. We met at the height of the "peace and love" era, hippie hippie, practitioners of a code o

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