Andy Akiho takes the steelpan to the Yale School of Music with Concerto for Steel Pans & Orchestra

Andy Akiho takes the steelpan to the Yale School of Music
with Concerto for Steel Pans & Orchestra
 

Connecticut, USA - With the world watching literally from every corner of the globe through a live streaming internet broadcast, musician and compose

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Panman/Film maker Dalton Narine picks up Award

Panman/Film maker Dalton Narine picks up Award
 

California, USA - Dalton Narine, producer/director of “Mas Man Peter Minshall,” recently picked up his fourth award for Best Documentary at the New York International Film Festival Award Ceremony in Be

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Minister slams Pan Trinbago in Trinidad and Tobago national news paper

Minister raps Pan Trinbago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Describing the skeletal structure as a “white elephant,” a visibly irate Peters said: “Pan Trinbago has been constructing this headquarters since God knows when. They got the land for free; they go

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Help for Panorama 2011

Hello WST and Pan on the Net community!
Six years ago, I fell in love with pan. Since then I have dedicated myself to growing as a panist and learning everything I can about the history and culture of Trinidad and Tobago and the steelband movement. I

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Tragedy for New York Steelpan Community - Steelpan music supporter murdered

Yesterday evening, Merv was shot and killed in front of his home on Brooklyn Avenue. We often lament the levels of violence that our society has come to. The anger in the streets, in particular among our youth is palpable and we have reached a point

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Nigeria Steelpan Festival for Secondary Schools

Nigeria - The second annual Secondary School Steel Band Competition was held in Lagos, Nigeria on November 23 and featured steel orchestras from seven schools. The brainchild of steelpan entrepreneur Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, the steelband competitio

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Panorama still pan’s showpiece

Panorama still pan’s showpiece

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Phase II Pan Groove must vacate panyard before December 31

Five-time Panorama champion, Phase II Pan Groove, must vacate its Hamilton Street home before year's end in order to make way for the completion of the One Woodbrook Place Project. 
 
Port of Spain Mayor, Louis Lee Sing, advised the band's manager, Err

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Who was the Cunumunu (or Cunumunus!!) --- who got rid of the Pan on the Plane @#!$#!

 

Lord,

 

I always wonder exactly WHO was the Cunumunu in the government authority, who decided that there was no need to put back the Pan on the fleet of aircraft owned wholly and solely by the government of Trinidad and Tobago.  It is so painful,

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Integrating The Three Elements of Carnival, Steelpan, Calypso and Mas - The 3rd International Conference on Steelpan

The 3rd International Conference on Steelpan Author: Louise C. F. Shah Nostalgia Steetband London - The 3rd International Conference on Steelpan witnessed a paradigm shift in intellectual debate on the carnival arts as compared to the first held in

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A Message to the When Steel Talks Family - Global Steelpan Community Expands

A Message to the When Steel Talks Family

One great global steelpan music family and experience under an internet pan groove

 

Global - Hi WST family:  We have some good news.  You are about to get an additional 6000 steelpan music loving brothers an

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Minister knocks Panorama: It has killed pan

Minister knocks Panorama: It has killed pan


Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, Winston Peters, says Panorama, the annual national steelband competition, has "killed" the steelpan and its scope needs to be broadened.

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Robert Greenidge + Steelpan + Xmas = “A Coral Reefer Christmas” - A WST CD Review

Global -The steelpan instrument, Christmas and Robert Greenidge = “A Coral Reefer Christmas.”  What more could one ask for in terms of a special music item for the season? And if that’s not enough, Robert brings a star musical cast to the table on th

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A stalwart Mosaic Steel Orchestra prevails despite ‘Tomas’

Barbados, W.I. - Well-known Mosaic Steel Orchestra from Barbados in the Caribbean is an active music organization that delivers premier pan performances throughout Barbados, and has also performed in Antigua and England. Late last month, Tropical Sto

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Open Steelband letter to the Mayor of San Fernando, Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - With a focus on southern Trinidad where he and his band, Southern Marines Steelband Foundation, are based, columnist Michael Joseph expresses his dismay about the treatment of the steelband community with respect to the fi

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Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to all those who celebrate the Thanksgiving season, in the USA and worldwide, from When Steel Talks. Pan-4-Life!

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Top 10 Most Viewed Videos - WST Steelpan Music Channel

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The Illustrated Story of Pan - coming soon!

The Illustrated Story of Pan brings together the results of Kim Johnson’s two decades of research into the oral, documentary and pictorial history of the steelband movement. It combines the intellectual rigour of a leading Caribbean researcher with t

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Indiana Steel Pan Association up and running

 Indiana Steel Pan Association up and running

The steelpan community in the state of Indiana has representation in its newly-formed Indiana Steelpan Association.  Co-founders are Eric Mannweiler, David Chase and Tom Berich.

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Over 6500 steelpan music members on WST

Much thanks folks.  Recently WST ning network went over 6500 members. We are looking forward to increasing global steelpan music experience of the WST family..

Pan 4 Life!!

When Steel Talks

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