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
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 - 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
A wise man once said it’s better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you’re wise; than to open it and let everyone think otherwise. You like that eh? Today
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
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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Global - Hi WST family: We have some good news. You are about to get an additional 6000 steelpan music loving brothers an
Read more…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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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
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
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
Read more…Happy Holidays to all those who celebrate the Thanksgiving season, in the USA and worldwide, from When Steel Talks. Pan-4-Life!
Read more…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
Read more… 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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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!!
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Trinidad & Tobago. W.I. - Southern Marines Steelband Foundation in Marabella, Trinidad has declared that in homage to their slain pan player, twenty-year old Petra Abraham - this weekend's upcoming finals of their annual Talent Expression competitio
Hello WST members,
I am looking to buy a copy of George Goddard's book, "Forty Years in the Steelbands, 1939-1979", and was wondering if anybody out there could help me out in some way. I don't think the publisher, Karia Press, is still operating, and
Paris Pan Jam was recorded in France in 2009 when the band did a five-week tour of Europe, and originally released in France this year when the band returned to Europe for two months from May through July.
Last year Pamberi was offered the opportunit
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