Meet Savannah Leaf of Maine, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Savannah Leaf of Maine, USA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Maine, USA - She has experienced the power of the pan first hand. Her love for the instrument is without question. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Savan

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Condolences to the family and friends of panist Marcus Joseph

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Marcus Joseph on his passing

aka Black Jesus....

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Meet Vernetta Paul of St. Lucia - President of the St. Lucia Steel Band Association - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Vernetta Paul of St. Lucia

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

St. Lucia - She is the president of the St. Lucia Steel Band Association. The first woman to ever hold this office in St. Lucia. Vernetta Paul shares her vision for the

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Meet Raisha Lovindeer of Jamaica - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Raisha Lovindeer of Jamaica

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Jamaica - It was simply love at first sight and sound for this eleven year old... - Now years later as captain of Jamaica's UWI Panoridim Steel Orchestra Raisha Lovind

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Tobago Steelpan Women Roar! - Binta and Zwena Carrington in the Spotlight

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Vanessa Alexandra Headley - Steelpan Gem: A When Steel Talks Spotlight

Celebration of Women
and the
Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -Vanessa Alexandra Headley has been playing the steelpan, the national instrument of her native Trinidad and Tobago since the age of four (4). She placed first in the Caribbean Se

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Meet Allidonna George of St. Lucia - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Meet Allidonna George

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

St. Lucia - She is part of that new generation of steelpan playing women who are now navigating a new direction for the pan fraternity.  In an exclusive, WST speaks to Allidonna G.

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WOMAN IN PAN - Mark E. Loquan

Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form

Tribute To Women In Pan

WOMAN IN PAN
Mark E. Loquan

VERSE
One could say women contribute literacy
To the whole evolution in pan
Like the case of our women  conductors
And adjudicators, dey continue to

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Steve Regis of Sundowners speaks on the very first Steelband Panorama

It’s been decades since the south steel orchestras of Trinidad stood toe to toe with the great bands of the North. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Steve Regis – arranger, captain and founder of Sundowners – takes us back to another t

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The Golden Anniversary of Panorama 2013

by Dr. Jeannine Remy

Global - The steelpan music of Trinidad and Tobago has certainly come a long way in the past 50 years from 21 participating bands in 1963 preliminaries to 156 bands (totals for single, small, medium, and large) participating in

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Phase II’s Love Story Trips Up Hat-Trick For All Stars

Global - The genius of Len “Boogsie” Sharpe. An arranger who, worn down by protest and tribute songs in the Panorama, was moved to venerate a fallen colleague in Franklyn Ollivierra, a man who had served Sharpe and Phase II for three decades or so, s

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Congratulations to Phase II Pan Groove and Buccooneers - 2013 Champions

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Phase II Pan Groove and Buccooneers. 

 

	Large Bands
	1. Phase II
	2. All Stars
	3. Renegades
	4, Exodus
	5. Skiffle
	6. Invaders
	6. Desperadoes
	8. Fon

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Finals: Order of Appearance for Small, Medium, Large Steel Orchestras - 2013 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

Order of Appearance for Small, Medium and Large Steel Orchestras - for 2013 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama Finals

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Happy Birthday, Bertie Marshall (Oh, even when he was alive he could care less)

by Dalton Narine

Global - Les Slater, chair of the T&T Folk Arts Institute in New York and a former Highlanders arranger, is hard-pressed to bring up much of his childhood without including “big brother” Bertie Marshall. The emblematic tuner served

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Success Stars Pan Sounds, St. Francois Girls’ Steel Orchestra and St. Margaret’s Boys Represent

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The Semifinals - Strangers in A Strange Land - Panorama 2013

by Dalton Narine
 

Global - ....For now, I’m in the Grand Stand and medium band Katzenjammers is making a play. They don’t know that their song, Edwin Pouchet’s Shock Attack, is being received as muddy water, like the Tsunami effect their instruments

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Merle Albino-De Coteau Shines as Panorama 2013 commentator - Vibe CT 105.1 FM delivers the goods

Global - ....While it is true that beggars cannot be choosers, in this case when the two stations overlapped in coverage there was only one real choice. That was Vibe CT 105.1 FM which was clearly superior. For reasons unknown to us i95.5 FM’s broadc

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SO FAR, WHO DO YOU LIKE?

Ok pan people we have heard most of the big bands, now going into the Semis' which arrangements impress you?

So far I like Exodus,  Desperados and Phase II.  I love BirdSong music but not for panorama, bomb competition,  they go kill everybody.

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The Greens verus Panorama

David Wears asked...

It's the BIGGEST Panorama Greens being built. That mean IS PARTY for those who want to fete for Panorama.

Question: Do you come, the Panorama Greens feter, come to listen to pan, AND if you do, do you agree that ALL DJ music must

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Back for 2013 Panorama, Narell Talks Pan - Lots of It

by Dalton Narine

Global - Andy Narell is back for Panorama 2013. The American-Trinidadian will be right at home among a fraternity of arrangers. And even narrowed in the small corner of elite composer-arrangers. It’s been 12 years since he last arra

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