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Bream Bay: College steel pan band strikes right note at music fest

The Panimals playing at PANZfest 2019 in Melbourne: Laura Corbet (front left), Scott Brown, Hayden Bartlett, Maraea Henry, Joseph Brady (back left) and Mirabella Uphof. Photo / Holly Munford

Rocklea, Queensland, Australia

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CARIBBEAT: Steelpan lessons for youngsters coming from the award-winning pros at CASYM

By JARED MCCALLISTER - New York Daily News

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St. Lucia 2019 National Panorama Results - Babonneau Steel Orchestra captures the title for the third consecutive year

Courts Babonneau Steel Orchestra has pulled a three-peat by winning the 2019 National Panorama Competition.

Courts Babonneau scored 475 points to capture the title for the third consecutive year.

A total of seven bands competed in this year’s compet

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Tell your story. Please. ONE VIDEO IS NOT ENOUGH. One raindrop is not a thunderstorm. One note is not a Panorama song.

Opinion:  by Markus Garceran

New York, USA - “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

- FDR

I remember three years ago, Jahlani and I launched a project...movemen

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Pan stalwart Curtis Pierre’s funeral tomorrow

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan pioneer Curtis Pierre died on Sunday, aged 84. His daughter Giselle said he died peacefully at his Glencoe home.

His granddaughter Quelita, in a Facebook post, invited family and friends to

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Real Talk - From New York Pan Men and Pan Women - But Is Anybody Listening?

New York, USA -  ....With resounding clarity and honesty, members of the next generation of leaders, arrangers, tuners, owners, players and managers speak to the dangers and perils that face New York pan. And moreover, that which threatens the New Y

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UPDATED -- Basement's 2019 Panyard Recording Schedule

Basement 2019 Panyard Recordings -- REVISED
 

Wednesday August 28^th:

Thursday August 29^th

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‘Pan Sweet Pan... The Solidarity Concert’ by Pan Trinbago

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It’s Pan’s Super Concert!

“Pan Sweet Pan… The Solidarity Concert” is fourteen of Trinidad & Tobago’s topnotch steel orchestras rallying to Pan Trinbago’s call to showcase the national instrument on one stage while Carifest

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Congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger André White - UK 2019 Panorama Champions

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Mangrove Steelband and arranger André White - UK's  2019 Panorama Champions

1st - Mangrove - 284 points

2nd - Metronomes - 270 points

3rd - Ebony - 269 points

4th - Pan Nation - 263 points
5th - Croydon -

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Pan Trinbago vex with culture minister

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 

-  Joan Rampersad

She dropped the ball on pan in Carifesta’

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts.

Pan Trinbago is most upset with Minister of Community

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Conversations with Pioneers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Conversations with the Pioneers” is the historical component in Pan Trinbago’s Pan Month calendar of events marking the anniversary of the declaration of the steelpan as the national music instrument of Trinidad & Tobago.

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Pan music for Emancipation 2019 – Trinidad All Stars at a Desperadoes show

Pan music for Emancipation 2019 – Trinidad All Stars at a Desperadoes show

At Despers #EmancipateYourselfThroughSteel show, 31st July 2019.

Trinidad All Stars
Disco Daddy ( Lord Nelson )
Arranger Yohan Popwell

Trinidad All Stars
Curry Tabanca ( De

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Notting Hill Carnival: Executive Director Matthew Phillip on the festival's traditions and what to expect from this year

Evening Standard

London, England - It all started back in January 1959. Claudia Jones, a Trinidadian human rights activist, organised a Caribbean Carnival at St. Pancras Town Hall in London – a celebration of West Indian culture that was televised b

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Grenada 2019 Panorama Results - New Dimension Steel Orchestra Triumphs With Champion Arranger Cordel Byam

St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - At Grenada’s 2019 National Panorama, one of the competition's youngest arrangers, Cordel Byam, guided now-twelve-time Panorama champion New Dimension Steel Orchestra to its latest victory lap around the national steelba

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Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble Wows Audiences in Toronto

Toronto, Canada - The Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble (TTCSE) took Toronto by storm during their recently-concluded performances a couple of weeks ago.

....This small ethnic group, captained by Susie Young, received rave reviews from all t

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NYU Steel Ensemble 2019 Spring Concert: Steelpan Magic on West 4th Street - when the Doctors Make a House Call

New York, USA - With enough music magic being generated at the Frederick Loewe Theater to make Harry Potter and his mates jealous, NYU Steel proceeded to turn the capacity audience into life long “Pan Jumbies.”

A long time ago the legendary drummer

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Remembering the Quiet Queen of Pan - Glenda Gamory - A WST Reflective

Pan Community comes to celebrate the life of Glenda Gamory, President and founder of Pantonic Steel Orchestra

Brooklyn, New York, USA - On this late May 17 Spring evening, members of the New York steelband community and family and friends of Glenda

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Youths Capture the Heart of a Nation- A Comprehensive Review of the 2019 Trinidad & Tobago National Junior Panorama - Success! Who? What? Why? & How?

by WST

Guaico Presbyterian Steel Orchestra during their winning performance

The Honourable Anthony Garcia, Minister of Education followed, and who—while praising the art form, the event that would unfold throughout the day, and especially the young

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Lagniappe - The Event - Steelband Champs, Soca Stars and more

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  The Carnival may be officially over but come Saturday March 9, Pan Trinbago will relive the memories through its production “Lagniappe… A Night With The Champs,” at the home of Carnival, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain

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Meet Bria Blake - New York, USA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

New York, USA - “When I was a child I participated in an African dance program. Also, on my father’s side of the family, they would have prayers and include drums. I grew to love drums and the sounds of

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