What is the reason for the north ability to dominate panorama. South only have 1win, if NuTones is from south then it's 2.
Read more…Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film
Global - Steelpan pioneer and visionary Bertie Marshall is the subject of this film production by film maker, producer, director, pan man and steelpan historian Dalton Narine. This is a fifty-minute
Wycome, England, U.K. -- Wycombe is fast becoming a ‘hub’ for calypso music thanks to the launch of a school dedicated to the steelpan drum.
The town’s MP and mayor went along to celebr
Read more…Musical Instrument Museum - Brussels
Recently a low tenor steel pan was given to the mim (Musical Instrument Museum) by the government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. To celebrate this donation of their national instrument to the Belgian state
Read more…Antigua, St. John's - Weeks ahead of Carnival 2012 activities, LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra has threatened to withdraw from the Antigua and Barbuda Pan Association (ABPA) over ignored concerns about a first place title it shares with the Hadeed G
Read more…OPPOSITION MP Donna Cox has said only one school was app
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to arranger, composer and panist Andre White.
May 21 is the birthday of the legendary Neville Jules - WST extends greetings.
There are a collective few who bear the distinction of being universally recognized as members of that unique, and special fraternity we at W
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Lagos, Nigeria
- A union between Nigeria’s Xcel Steelpan Co. Ltd., Trinidad and Tobago’s Pan Trinbago Inc. and FCL (Financial Concepts Limited) was consummated in Gatwick, United Kingdom on Saturday 12th May, 2012. The three organisations came toge
Master Tuner Wallace Austin
Wallace Austin at Basement Recordings/ WST Studios
Wallace Austin is considered as one of the finest steelpan tuners ever. Wallace Austin was part of the legendary team of tuners (Rudolph Charles, Lincoln Noel, James 'Bas
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Saturday 19th May @2pm 2012 will see the launch of the New Zealand Steel Pan Academy, with a focus on bringing the magic of Pan to all.
The Musical Director Marion Titmuss can’t wait to showcase the possibilities that playing Pan can give to Kiwi’s o
Another When Steel Talks Concert Review
New York, New York - For this Spring Steel Orchestra co
Read more…Grenada Chronicle
New York, USA - The West Indian American Day Carnival has a news President.
He is WIADCA stalwart, Thomas “Tom” Bailey who will replace Yolanda Lezama-Clarke in the post. Lezama-Clarke, the daughter of the event’s founder, Carlos
Read more…written by Andre Moses President, Pan in Schools Coordinating Council
In so many cases the right and wrong of a situation has little to do with the arguments in themselves, but has all to do with how the framework for the discussion is presented. Th
Read more…Pan party earns $5M
By Lara Pickford-Gordon Saturday, April 21 2012 - Newsday
Pan Trinbago’s revenue from Carnival 2012 has doubled to $5 million. The increased earning was generated from the party held on the Greens, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-S
Read more…In honor of this weekend’s most auspicious collision of Record Store Day and Earth Day, Saturday and Sunday respectively, I decided to reprise a sto
Read more…Above all, the steelpan
Read more…"... Why do we need to plan our lives and educational strategies around a divisive concept like multiculturalism which, contrary to its benign 'many c
I may be late with this news, but I was just informed on the passing of Sheldon....this means we have lost another great one...so many from the homeland are leaving. Sheldon was a very young man in his 30's. Many would know of him winning the Ex Temp
Read more…My sincerest condolences to Alvin Daniell, and the rest of the Daniell/Cudjoe family in this time of our loss. Dianne Daniell nee Cudjoe, was one of a kind, and I will always remember her hospitality whenever I used to visit their home, which at one
Read more…Trinidad Express
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The steelband fraternity yesterday came out to the St Finbar's RC Church in Morne Coco Road, Diego Martin, to bid farewell to founding member of the Silver Stars Steel Orchestra Junior Edgar Francis Pouchet.
