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Listen & Watch UK 2021 Panorama
The official Notting Hill Carnival 2021 live stream.
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Mangrove Steelband Cops 11th UK Panorama Title with Arranger André White - 2021 UK Panorama Results
London, England, UK - Mangrove Steelband held on to its title as UK Panorama champion, making it the steel orchestra's eleventh win in the Panorama competition.
....In the midst of a different landscape worldwide, there was a somewhat ʽreduced’ st
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Revisted - A Not So Brief History Of The United States Navy Steel Band
A Not So Brief History Of The United States Navy Steel Band
Global - I have been asked by When Steel Talks to write a history of the Navy Steel Band during my tenure as the Leader.
Duty with the Navy Steel Band was a very unique opportunity, there
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Holman to receive honorary doctoral degree from UWI
Michael Mondezie -Trinidad Express
Pannist Ray Holman says his upcoming presentation of an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) signals a growing respect for pan and the calypso artform.
“To me, this sign
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Agendr is live now -- live chat with arranger, composer and producer, Natasha Joseph
Welcome to our first Facebook live chat with arranger, composer and producer, Natasha Joseph (@dpanwoman)
What’s on the AGENDR is a new interactive session with leading and upcoming womxn in the audio and AV industry.
Get to know more about Natasha
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Breaking my silence - Gerard Mendez, Treasurer Pan Trinbago
Open letter to the Pan Fraternity and the National Community
LIES, MORE LIES & DAMN LIES
While Sandra Blood of the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper is “used” to painting a rosy picture of Pan Trinbago, on the other hand there exists a dark side in the Bo
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The International Pan Ramajay 2021 Postponed until 2022
Faced with the challenges of the pandemic and the Delta variant Exodus Steel Steel Orchestra has cancelled the 2021 International Pan Ramajay.
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Arranger - Composer Godwin Bowen has passed
When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of former Sparrow's Troubadours - Standout composer, arranger and panist Godwin Bowen.
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Brother Resistance you stood tall and defined a space and a pathway
by Andre Moses
Brother Resistance was and is an original. It is not easy to be an ‘original’ in today’s world, but he found the courage and conviction to express his originality. I met him in the early 1970’s on the UWI campus. When Birdsong was for
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Steelpan genius: Anthony Williams of North Stars Steel Orchestra... the making of a master
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Anthony “Tony” “Muff-Man” “Skip” Williams–Sun Valley, North Stars and Pan Am Jet North Stars (PAJNS)–is the scientist supreme of tuning and creating pans. He was master arranger, composer, inn
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So did Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber just steal KES The Band's "Savannah Grass" ?
Sure sounds to me like Ed Sheeran has again taken the key elements of somebody else's song. This time it's "Savannah Grass" by Kes.
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Sheeran’s Bizarre History of Musical Thievery -- Remember when Bugs said Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care borrowed liberally from Kes?
Kyndall Cunningham - Yahoo News -- Ed Sheeran
Sun, July 4, 2021, 5:02 AM·6 min read
Last Friday, British pop star Ed Sheeran released “Bad Habits,” the first single from his forthcoming album Minus. The song, which is on track to debut at No. 1 on t
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Happy100th Birthday to Ms.Katherine Johnson -- NASA's Human Computer
Ms. Katherine Johnson" NASA's human computer
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Revisited - Williams axed local pan press research
Is History Repeating Itself?
ClÉment Imbert, Project Engineer of the Steelband Research Project, looking at the bowl of a pan made by the hydroforming machine designed by Ron Dennis of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UWI (1975)
By Terry Jos
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Happy Birthday to the legendary Pan innovator Anthony Williams - June 24
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to the great arranger, leader and innovator extraordinaire - Anthony "Tony" Williams.
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Reboot - Happy Birthday -- Meet Alexis Schloss - Brooklyn, New York
Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
New York, USA - “...challenges. There is so much to learn, from music theory to Kendall's offbeat phrasings. There's always something to do or something I don't know about as yet. Music is infinite.”
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Reboot - The Ugly, The Uglier and The Ugliest - New York Panorama 2017
tag words for 2017 NY Panorama: Embarrassing, Shameful, Thoughtless, Bandits
New York, USA - Well if you haven’t heard already, New York's 2017 Panorama Steel Orchestra competition was an epic failure for most. Unless you were the show’s promoters -
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Revisited - Meet Patrice Lewis-Lett - Trinidad & Tobago
Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
“There is a lack of real opportunity to showcase how dynamic and far-reaching the art form is. How many panists or bands fully function throughout the year? What about career opportunities beyond carniv
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