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11th Steelpan/Carnival Arts Conference: Call for Papers extended

United Kingdom - The ‘Call for Papers’ for the 11^th Steelpan/Carnival Arts Conference has been extended to 6^th December 2024.

....The 11^th Steelpan/Carnival Arts Conference...will be held at the elegant theatres of the National Academy for the Perfo

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On the bright side

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....The resilience and growth of the steelband movement is amazing. August was Pan Month. I began with the annual birdsong summer camp graduation musical concert.

I have previously described th

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Pan scores at Fire Festival - Cuba

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 

Havana, Cuba - Santiago de Cuba is regarded as the cultural capital of Cuba, and just recently has deepened its mix of “frenetic, passionate and noisy beauty” with the pan.

They love the pan,” declared pan aficionado, p

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Bob’s Music Launches Conglomerate for Performing Arts Opportunities for Steelband Music & More

New York, USA - He a multi-talented musician. An awesome panist. He is the current defending champion New York Junior Panorama arranger. Moreover, he is a young man with a plan and he has hit the ground running. We are talking about Damany James, the

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Tobago Region/Tobago House of Assembly (THA) annual steelband competition

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A new Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Pan Champ (Large) will be crowned tomorrow, Friday 17 February at the end of the annual Tobago Region/Tobago House of Assembly (THA)-staged steelband competition. The venue is the Parade

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Musical Gift to the Community - Tropicalfete Count Down Show - Tropicalfete Steel Pan Ensemble performs

Brooklyn, New York, USA - Multicultural art, non-profit organization Tropicalfete, Inc. is excited once again to unveil their annual year-end event presentation. This season’s offering is billed as ‘A Musical Gift to the Community - Tropicalfete Cou

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Finals for Southern Marines Steelband Foundation’s fourteenth consecutive Talent Expression Set

Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - So The semi-final round of Talent Expression, the leading performance art talent competition in the South, organised by the Southern Marines Steelband Foundation has set the stage for a tremendous final night.

Ei

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Top musicians to lead First Citizens music workshops

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -  The promoters of the 2014 T&T Steel Pan and Jazz Festival (TTSJF) have recruited an exceptional line-up of facilitators for the 12^th annual First Citizens Workshops for Young Musicians Series, to

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With a wing and a prayer - Fourth annual birdsong Steel Orchestra benefit concert

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The fourth annual Birdsong benefit concert was appropriately held in the Lord Kitchener auditorium at NAPA on June 22. As an icon of T&T’s musical patrimony, Kitch would surely have

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Laventille to Brooklyn, A Phenomenal People - A Great Day for the Steelpan and Community

Laventille Pan Family Reunion 2014

New York, USA - On a balmy Brooklyn Summer night some two thousand-plus miles away from its namesake (Laventille) - D’Radoes Steel Orchestra held its 2nd annual ‘Laventille Pan Family Reunion’ Day in its panyard. T

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Passionate panist for August concert

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - He was dubbed “A Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan virtuoso” at age 15 by adjudicator Dr Jessel Murray.
Richarde’ Bereaux found his passion at age six, when he began experimenting on the national ins

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100+ Steelpan Performers on stage at the Carpenter Center - Massive Band 2014 – CSULB Steel Orchestra Extravaganza

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

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Steel Drum Festival Beats At Cabrillo

Gazettes.com

California, USA -  ....With their hands moving fast, the advanced level steel drum artists were busy this week preparing for their biggest performance of the year. Next Wednesday, March 26, Cabrillo is hosting its annual Steel Drum Festi

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The Achaiba’s annual Christmas Concert

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Achaiba's Steelpan and Piano Musical Arts school on December 14 hosted its annual concert at the concert hall at Naparima Bowl, San Fernando. The concert heard performances on pan, drum, pian

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On the wings of birdsong

The Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Natural birdsong has therapeutic qualities; we may hear peripherally but still absorb some of those sweet improvisations and calls. Similarly, to judge by responses in the packed-out auditorium of Queen

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Steelpan Parade Takes Pride of Place with Pan On D Avenue II

Woodbrook, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.  - Pan on D Avenue II in Woodbrook, Trinidad was a huge success; the crowds turned out and Trinidad’s best steel orchestras paraded from east to west—a reversal of last year’s direction—along Ariapita Avenue in Nort

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Cambridge-based Pan Waves Steel Band plays at Sarnia’s Canada Day bash

The Sarnia Observer

Ontario, Canada - The sound of Kenrick Dookie's steel drumming was a new addition at this year's Canada Day celebration.

Dookie, 28, is a member of the Cambridge-based Pan Waves Steel Band that played at Sarnia's Canada Day bash

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Looking back: 2010-2019 -- "From Tiny Mites to Champions, CASYM’s tradition and legacy continue"

Brooklyn, New York - There are very few accolades that have not been bestowed on CASYM (Caribbean American Sports & Cultural Youth Movement, Inc.) Steel Orchestra and its parent organization for success of its unparalleled musical, educational and co

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Allied Arts Unit holds annual Amity steelband exhibition in Botanical Gardens

Guyana Chronicle

Celebrating Education Month…

Guyana, S.A. - The Allied Arts Unit of the Ministry of Education on Sunday held its annual Amity National Steelband Exhibition at the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown, as part of its mandate to celebrate

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A show of musical excellence - a birdsong steel orchestra music academy initiative

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The recent Birdsong annual Scholarship Benefit Concert was one of the best productions staged at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium of the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA) since its openin

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