Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation (LSFF) will be once again bringing eight of the country’s top steelbands together at a concert titled “8 of Hearts” this weekend at the National Academ
Appalachian State University News
North Carolina, USA - Clean and press your Hawaiian shirt and great ready for an incredible night of steel pan music when the Steely Pan Steel Band and alumni perform in a free concert Saturday, April 26.
The progra
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California, USA - The annual CSULB (California State University, Long Beach) Steel Drum concert Caribbean Extravaganza gives way to a massive steel orchestra on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 p.m. The concert features the CSULB Steel Drum Orchestra during
Chicago Sister Cities International
Chicago, USA - From May 5–13, 2014, the Hamburg Committee of CSCI is sponsoring Sullivan High School’s Steel Drum Corps visit to Altona Gymnasium school in Hamburg as part of the 20th anniversary of the sister city
Calm, unassuming, and extremely humble - Andy’s demeanor belies his globally recognized musical accomplishments with the steelpan instrument.
Global - Quiet but passionate, unassuming but already musically an aficionado, Andy Akiho’s journey with t
Cayman 27
Cayman Islands - There’s nothing quite like the sound of a steel pan band. Young pan-jammers from all over the island put their sticks into action for a steel pan competition.
Schools from all around showed their talents off Thursday night
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Zimbabwe - A musical orchestra group from Trinidad and Tobago, Exodus Orchestra Steel, has arrived in Zimbabwe as part of the Harare International Carnival.
The group members, who were received at the Harare Interna
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Professor Liam Teague said T&T has only scratched the surface in discovering the potential of the national instrument the steelband. Teague, one of the three recipients of the 2014 Anthony N Sabga
Lewiston Sun Journal
Maine, USA - Pan Fried Steel, a community steel band based in Yarmouth, will be the next group to perform at the Vienna Union Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21. The band started about 14 years ago when parents of North Yarmout |
Global 
- Members of Xalapa Steel Band of México were in Trinidad for the early part of the 2014 Panorama season, and took part in the preliminaries with Valley Harps Steel Orchestra led by Michelle Huggins-Watts. Eight members, six of them players,
NIU Today
Illinois, USA - Liam Teague, head of steelpan studies and an associate professor in the NIU School of Music, was named the 2014 Laureate in Arts and Letters by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards For Excellence.
Click below for the speech
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New York, USA - There is very little that When Steel Talks can say about NYU Steel that we haven’t already said over the years since its inception in 2007 - except maybe, mission accomplished.
Born out of the vision of NYU percussion department cha
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United Kingdom - From Panorama player to music educator - she has experienced all aspects of the Pan up close and personal. Performer, arranger, and now director - the steelpan instrument is in her b
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This year’s scintillating steel orchestra performances at the Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Finals were captured “live” and are now available on DVD.
“Celebrating the Evolution of Pan - Pa
Read more…llinois, USA - Northern Illinois University Steelband, under the direction of Liam Teague and Cliff Alexis, presents its Spring 2014 concert on Sunday April 13th 2014, at 3:00 p.m. (CST) in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, NIU School of Music, DeK
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Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The long-awaited official Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2014 CD compilation is completed and available. The three-disc set is the collection of the steelband finalists recaptured as they perform their Panorama selections. It f
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...The question has to be asked though, are we killing Carnival and sacrificing the mas and spectator participation by the overkill of police methodology and the rigid rulings of the National Carnival Commission (NCC)
The Herald Star
Ohio, USA - Plans are being made for the eighth-annual Ohio Valley Festival of Steel, an event shaping up to be another "pan marathon," according to Shelly Irvine, festival founder and coordinator.
The event will be held May 10 at Ca
Read more…International Award-Winning Soca Artists Bunji Garlin, Fay Ann Lyons & The Asylum Band speak officially on withdrawing from their advertised 2014 Tobago Jazz Experience performance
April 27, 2014
Global - Bunji Garlin (of Differentology fame), Fay A
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