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Ralph MacDonald, Robert Greenidge & Friends Drop Magic on MOP Festival - Moods of Pan 2008 - REVISITED

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I.- Multiple Grammy award-winning producer, song writer and performing artist Ralph MacDonald came to the beautiful Caribbean island of Antigua, sister isle of Barbuda - to have some fun. What was also very apparent from the on

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David Rudder continues His Tribute to Pan, Calypso and Culture - Moods of Pan 2008 - REVISITED

Antigua & Barbuda, W.I.- David Rudder was surrounded by an audience of steelpan music enthusiasts. After all - this was the Moods of Pan Festival, with emphasis on ‘pan'.

....Rudder dropped a continuous stream of songs - old and new - that all had p

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Steelband making waves

Stabroek News

Guyana, SA - Guyana is awash, virtually daily, with an array of ‘bad news’ stories. The ‘good news’ items are around, but they don’t always make the headlines; they remain invisible. This one I’m about to tell you goes back some years t

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Panorama Rewind

 

Going back in time here to 2003, and moving up through the years.  Following are links to the results of, and pictures from Trinidad & Tobago Panorama from 2003 through 2010 as compiled by When Steel Talks/PanOnTheNet. Additionally, you may click

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REVISITED: Antiguan & Barbudan Cultural and Steelpan Icon Leroy “Jughead” Gordon remembered

Antigua & Barbuda, USA - There are few - if any - steelpan music greats that can claim that a sitting Prime Minister spoke at their funeral.

On November 13, 2008 Antigua and Barbuda national cultural icon and Harmonites pan player Leroy 'Jughead'

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“Crawl” Remembered - One of the finest Bassists Ever

Global - Exactly eleven years ago (June 7, 2008) the steelpan music community lost one its finest musicians. Frank “Crawl” Findley of Desperadoes in Trinidad and D'Radoes in New York was simply poetry in motion. When Steel Talks remembers and salutes

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