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
Read more…If you had to produce a CD of GREATEST PANORAMA HITS, which TWELVE songs would you put on that CD? There are roughly 600,000 Trinidadians living in various parts of the world, so there might be a fair amount of interest in such a product. Let us say
Read more…To the general public:
You are invited to a forum to discuss " How we can save pan in New York". We see it, we know it and we live it.
This forum is for everyone who manages, captains, plays, supports and most importantly love pan. We need to have th
Read more…When Steel Talks expresses heartfelt condolences to Samantha Nicholson, wife Jean, and the family and friends on the passing of Mr. Cyrus Busby, a member of Despers USA and D'Radoes Steel Orchestras in Brooklyn, New York. He passed away earlier this
Read more…Whenever mentioned is made of the great pan soloists and jazz improvisation masters, none is made of Othello Molineaux? Why is that? Othello's and Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel, Othello's works with the legendary Jaco Pastorius and the legendar
Read more…I read all these discussions about the acoustic pan and the electronic pan and pan on the road for carnival -- but I never see any discussions about PAN MUSIC. We have tuners and arrangers and composers and music graduates and professors at every lev
Read more…I have a confession to make, pan people.
I've come to realize that my perceptions on the steel pan are derived from my relationship with the pan, and I'm thinking that the same applies to just about everyone else on this forum.
I "beat pan" from
Read more…A WST Opinion
Here is a reality check on what the New York steelband franchises are up against.
After years of poor, vision-less, spineless and/or corrupt leadership - particularly in the NY Caribbean communities the great steel orchestras of Brook
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New York, USA - After reading Pantonic captain, Wayne Bernard’s, post about this topic, I felt the need to address the same issue. It’s no secret that the majority of the Brooklyn pan scene is comprised of young adults and teenagers who anxiously wai
New York, USA - He is a big man, with big ideas, big talent and he is without doubt 'big-time.' His name is Duvone Stewart and he came here to conquer New York. In the Big Apple there is a saying: "You ain't done it 'til you done it." Duvone has de
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New York, USA - J’Ouvert was in full effect in New York for 2013. Again the steelbands of New York and surrounding areas, along with rhythm sections put on a show that only iron and steel can deliver in the wee hours of Labor Day. New York J’Ouvert
Read more…Congrats to CASYM Steel Orchestra on capturing the 2013 NY Panorama crown...
1. 481 - CASYM
2. 470 - Sonatas
3. 469 - D'Radoes
4. 467 - Pan Fantasy
5. 464 - Despers USA
6. 462 - ADLIB
7 . 450 - Pantonic
8. 433 - Crossfire
8. 433 - Ha
