Is it too early to ring the bell signaling the end of the pan tune's dominance in panorama? I have been looking at the selections of bands so far, and I am seeing some very interesting trends building from the last 2 years. Some of the songs that ba
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fete promoters say they would welcome the return of steel pan and brass bands to their events but cited logistics as a major reason why most events feature singers as their only form of entertainm
Read more…I am glad that most of the Pan Songs for 2014 has the sound of a pan in them, now I am wondering how many used an actual Pan.
Some may argue the point that what does it matter if the sound is real or clone, for me it does matter when it come down to
Read more…ON OCTOBER 27TH 2013, THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF PAN TRINBAGO WAS HELD AND NO FINANCIAL REPORTS WERE PRESENTED. STEELBANDS WERE ADVISED THEN, THAT THE REASON FOR THESE STATEMENTS NOT PRESENTED, WERE THAT TOBAGO AND THE EASTERN REGIONS DID NOT SUBM
Read more…Read more…“...Now this project was always bigger than pan. We viewed it as a pilot project for showing the nation how to innovate. We feel, that we have to be ready for when that oil money is done and the way to do it is to have a higher/stronger culture of in
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In the spring of 2012, Andy was invited by the band to come down and play in their June benefit concert at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA
2013 Soul Train Awards Acknowledges Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Genre- Hats Tipped To Bunji Garlin
Recorded in November, the 2013 Soul Train Awards was aired on CENTRIC and BET on Sunday, December 1st. In a category of five, two soca artistes out of
Read more…"My main concern is setting this thing forward as an example to what can be done with this kind of music, what changes can be made and what kind of music can be acceptable."
Master arranger Clive Bradley....http://youtu.be/UrYA5-Pxclc
Read more…An idea came to me, and I am sure at least ONE person will cut it down; but here goes anyway:
Instead of having the Greens be the playhouse for those who really do not care about steelbands and pan, I suggest that the area be allotted to the member s
Read more…Brooklyn Steel Orchestra comes together for AGT auditions
New York, USA - In an 'on the spur of the moment' collaborative effort, some of Brooklyn's finest steelpan musicians came to together for a special project. That project being vying for a sp
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to The Codrington Pan Family - The 2013 Pan Is Beautiful XII Orchestra Champions!!
I Quote the words of my Very Good Friend Ian Franklyn," Plenty of Music but not Plenty of Support, Let no one Blame on Pan Trinbago."
My question is, who should we Blame for this?
Who should we Blame if the Thousands of Local Pan supporters are not m
Read more…Simply one of the greatest musical pieces ever written. Pan in A Minor by the late Grand Master - Lord Kitchener - has become a global test piece for the steel orchestra and panist.
Just Listen 
It grieves me to see the truth in plain sight and people not seeing it, when they bought out peoples choice Fonclaire won it one year in 1971, those days they added up all the marks of all the judges, some time in the eighties the late 70's somebody
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Trinidad - ALL THE clichés apply on this Panorama evening.
What’s new, though, is that Panorama has begat a couple of sidebar stories that now overshadow the very tenor of the contest.
This Ohio State marching Band video of "Michael Jackson Tribute" generated well over two million views in 2 days. There are many, many similarities between the marching bands (church drum and bugle corp) and the steelbands of the last century. From
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Topping the preliminary round, the Codrington Pan Family scored eight points more than their nearest rival Tropical Angel Harps, to emerge with the highest score at the weekend’s Orchestra Class in the Nationa
Click for AES 135th International Convention - in Pictures
Jimmy Jam delivers Friday’s Opening Keynote at AES
New York, USA - The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is holding its annual convention at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. The fo
Read more…In continuing to focus on the (often) unmentioned heroes of the Steelband Movement, we must acknowledge and honor those women who were instrumental in "pan moving forward". The STEELBAND SHEROES! Indeed, once the "steelbandsmen" figured out how to co
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