WST Special - Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film - Revisted

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

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St Vincent and the Grenadines 2nd Generation (SV2G) launches School of Steelpan in Wycombe, UK

Calypso sounds from under Abbey Way flyover

By Lawrence Dunhill

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

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The steelpan to be crowned instrument of the month of June - Brussels, Belgium

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

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Hell’s Gate Threatens Boycott

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

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Maha Sabha: No pan

Maha Sabha: No pan

'One school approved for national instrument...'

By Julien Neaves

OPPOSITION MP Donna Cox has said only one school was app

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Happy Birthday to Arranger Andre White

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to arranger, composer and panist Andre White.

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Happy Birthday to the great Neville Jules of Trinidad All Stars - Panist, Innovator, leader and a Gentleman

Happy Birthday Neville Jules

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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Africa-Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company Kicks Off


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

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Master Tuner Wallace Austin

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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Launch of the teaching Academy for Steel Pan in New Zealand

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NYU Steel is for Real - No schizophrenic behavior about the Steelpan...

NYU Steel is for Real

No schizophrenic behavior about the Steelpan - in the school of Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development... 

Another When Steel Talks Concert Review

New York, New York - For this Spring Steel Orchestra co

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West Indian American Carnival Gets New President

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

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Dismantling the Pan In The Classroom Unit Is Tantamount to Turning Back The Hands Of The Clock

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

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Was the Pan Community Sold Out & Betrayed? -- Pan party earns $5M

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

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When Record Store Day Meets Earth Day, it’s time for The Esso Trinidad Steel Band

When Record Store Day Meets Earth Day, it’s time for The Esso Trinidad Steel Band

by Denise Sullivan

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

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Above all, the steelpan

Above all, the steelpan

By Sunity Maharaj
Re-published with the expressed permission of the author

"... Why do we need to plan our lives and educational strategies around a divisive concept like multiculturalism which, contrary to its benign 'many c

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The Passing of Sheldon John ( Extempo Monarch)

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

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Condolences to the Daniell and Cudjoe Families

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

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Steelband fraternity says farewell to Junior Pouchet

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.

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Desperadoes Steel Orchestra And The 50th Panorama

by Dalton Narine

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Desperadoes wasn’t at the finals on Panorama night, in part because the average fan could have hardly recognized the personality of the band, though 42-year tenor player Ursula Tudor stood out as usual.

 

 

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