United Kingdom - Carnival Village based at the Tabernacle, Powis Square, London W11 2AY, England, an iconic Grade II listed building in the heart of Notting Hill, takes on an exciting and historic new lease of life. Stepping up its status as an inter
Read more…United Kingdom - Ebony Steelband Trust held their annual Blockorama and Family Day at the Westway Sports Centre in North Kensington, London on Sunday the 9th August 2009 with another similar event to follow on Sunday the 23rd August. Ebony players c
Read more…Sonatas launch completes the great steelband music weekend as bands come out to play New York, USA - This was the final leg of the great pan weekend - Sonatas’ launch at D’Radoes Panyard. With two other highly successful legs (Despers USA and Panto
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New York, USA - The New York middle leg or ‘day two’ of the “great weekend of pan” was matched, held and sustained at the Pantonic launch. Ironically or coincidentally, while it was not originally planned that way - this launch could easily have been
Read more…New York, USA - The New York leg of the “great weekend of pan” took off with a bang. Despers USA’s Bedford Stuyvesant’s panyard aka ‘the Pan Loft’ lit up the night under the overhead projection of a full moon that illuminated their facilities as the
Read more…1. Rainbow City All Stars, 2.Commancheroes, 3. New Dimensions, 4 Grand Roy Pan Angels, 5. Pan Wizards, 6 Westside Symphony, 7. Angel Harps, 8. Pan Lovers.
Read more…Global - I don’t know how smart a move it was to request a review of The Bradley Years CD by someone who, in the “Brados” composition a couple of years ago wrote lines like, “Major force/You really was de boss” and “Gifted for days/So deserving of pr
Read more…St. Ann’s, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Panorama winners, finalists, members and officers of the steelband fraternity were hosted by Their Excellencies, Professor George Maxwell Richards and First Lady Dr. Jean Ramjohn-Richards, at President’s House, St
Read more…New York, USA - Meet Kadeem Alleyne - this 19 year-old Berklee College of Music student is perched to add his name to the growing list of under-thirty steelpan musicians who have expanded their outlook and focus to incorporate multiple aspects of the
Read more…This is a never-before-released or heard, 'slow version' of the great Len "Boogsie" Sharpe classic arrangement of "In My House" as performed by Pan Rebels and captured by Basement Recordings, as the orchestra prepared for the annual New York panorama
Read more…Congratulations to Commancheros Juniors on their winning the 2009 Grenada Junior Panorama Title. The Following are the results of Junior Panorama held at the Children Carnival Frolic at the National Stadium. 1st Commancheroes - 244 points 2nd WizK
Read more…Toronto, Canada - Congratulations are in order for Salah's Steelpan Academy which won its third consecutive title at the annual Pan Alive Competition held last night at the Lamport Stadium. The Montreal-based steelpan music organization edged out New
Read more…Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra - the oldest band in Antigua & Barbuda, made history again for 2009 by copping Panorama championship honors, beating out four other competitors. And they did this with the youngest arranger in the
Read more…New York - Nine New York Steel Orchestras are cracking up nightly as they prepare for the biggest night on their annual calendar - the Steelband Music Panorama competition, scheduled this year for Saturday September 5, 2009 behind the Brooklyn Museum
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. – On August 30th 1991, Steelband was officially declared the National Instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, and rightly so I may say. Any other Instrument indigenous to TnT and wish to lay claim, must be able to stand up on its o
Read more…New York - Panman Ulric Joseph has passed. When Steel Talks extends condolences to his family and friends. Ulric was the father of Tony Joseph (Metro Steel Orchestra) and Brian Joseph (Pantonic Steel Orchestra). ______________________________________
Read more…July 21st Caribana Greetings! By way of formal introduction, I am a photo-journalist accredited with the ScotiaBank Caribana organization. For the past 10 years I have been photographing the carnival events around Toronto with special emphasis on th
Read more…This is the line up of Steel Orchestras, tunes, and arrangers for both the National Steelband Panorama, and the Junior National Panorama competitions in Grenada, W.I. for 2009. click for full line up
Read more…St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - "It's a revolution in pan, understand, we woman take over steelband". That's the refrain in the last lines of the chorus of "Pan Revolution" a song that was written in tribute to the vast number of young women who are no
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