Obituary of Beverly Ruthven Griffith
After a courageously fought battle with several illnesses, Beverly R. Griffith of Deerfield Beach, Florida passed away on April 19, 2022.
Beverly was born on April 18, 1941 in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago.
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - Commancheros Steel Orchestra which copped its last title in 2018, emerged on top in Grenada’s 2022 Panorama competition with its performance of Andre Greenidge’s arrangement of 10,000 Masqueraders by “Miney” - bringin
Read more…St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - On Saturday August 7, 2022 the steelpan instrument was supposed to be featured in Grenada’s Panorama 2022 - an event promoted as “Pantastic Saturday Ultra.” However, A very curious and disrespectful thing happened alo
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“There were lots of guys who went to Trinidad. Some remained in T&T. Among the ones who came back and were in the early steelband movement in Grenada was a fella named Willan Dewsbury. He was part of the Grenada steelband called Hell Cats (he’s the
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St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - Five steel orchestras will be challenging the defending champion from 2019, New Dimension Steel Orchestra - for a total of six bands taking the stage on Saturday, August 6.
....The overall event, “Pantastic Saturday
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“I just found out it is a quite fun and interesting instrument with a very unique sound... Not many Chinese people saw or knew this instrument before, actually. My family and friends are very supportive with this new instrument I introduced to them.
Read more…Celebrating Steelpan - Illustration by artist Nicholas Huggins
Global - On Tuesday July 26, 2022 the steelpan instrument of Trinidad and Tobago is featured and celebrated on the site of tech
Read more…A night of classic jams in Brooklyn, New York. Indeed a ‘quiet storm’ moment
Unison SteelNew York, USA - They may be the new kids on the block or more accurately the latest (new) edition on the block - but they did not disappoint. For sure it was F
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St. Lucia, W.I. - After two years of no official Panorama activity in St. Lucia due to COVID-19, the competition stage at the SAB in Castries came alive with four bands taking on defending champions Babonneau Steel Orchestra. The band, led musicall
Read more…Dezral wins 2022 St. Lucia Calypso Monarch performing Legacy and Calling All Saints
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The history of Steel pan in Saint Lucia dates much farther back than Saint Lucia’s independence, even farther than many today can recall vividly enough to attribute its introduction to any one individual. However various names are almost always spoke
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to musician extraordinaire and fashion designer Orisha John.
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by Stokely Carmichael
Sometime in the late 1930′s, the government in another of its persistent and futile attempts to suppress African cultural survivals, decided that the colony would more easily be governable if drums and other traditional musical
Scholar, educator, champion Panorama arranger, drummer and ace panist Victor “Babu” Samuel has passed
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New York, USA - Gregory Boyd is good, real good. Furthermore, he is on the cutting edge. Originally from Louisiana, USA, and now hailing from Denmark, this artist is like no other who has graced the steelpan music instrument. The soulfulness of his
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“Really good to see this performance, as it was unique! Shame the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) saw fit not to broadcast it live on TV to the world as part of the Platinum Jubilee Parade. (Instead, they chose to
Read more…By Jane Blanksteen --- May 8, 1977
“COME on! And let it rock!” shouted James Leyden, a music teacher at the Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, trying to get the attention of the 16 blue‐jeaned and sneakered teen‐age steel drummers who were arr
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Mathieu BorgneGlobal - From twenty-four, to twenty, to ten steelpan final night artists. And then there was one. PanoGrama 2022 champion Mathieu Borgne from France copped first place, ultimately besting his twenty-three co-competitors. Borgne affor
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