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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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When Sidney Poitier met the Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband in 1964

Published with the expressed permission of the author

by Clevil James

In Photo from left – Steve Regis, Elton “Smokey” John, Herman Colins, Conrad Hunte, unknown, unknown, Sidney Portier, Hugh Borde, unknown,

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Pan Trinbago Remains Positive, Moves Towards Panorama 2020 Despite Hurdles, Bumps, Hiccups In The Road

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At a morning media briefing on Thursday January 9, the president of Pan Trinbago, Beverley Ramsey-Moore assured everyone that it was full steam ahead for the organization’s cadre of historic 2020 Panorama even

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Steelband Body Pan Trinbago Forges International Union

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - On August 4^th and 5^th, 2015, Pan Trinbago - at its International Business Conference, established an alliance with eight of the leading steelpan markets, including North America, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.

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The Sixth International Biennial Steelpan Conference

'The Fusion of Steelpan with Other Art Forms in the 21^st Century'

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To Register for the conference  and get more information, the link is: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/steelpanconference.

 

Registration can also be by email – see R

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French Federation of Steelbands Created: “Steelband en France”

France - France has had steelbands for several decades now. They were first adopted in the French West Indian community (from Martinique and Guadeloupe), and became more widespread since the 90s. However, beside a mailing list connecting most of the

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Joint media conference between Pan Trinbago-Nigerian High Commissioner cancelled

Earlier on today, When Steel Talks/PanOnTheNet received the following (below), official notification from Pan Trinbago that a joint media conference between Pan Trinbago Inc. and the Nigerian High Commissioner was scheduled to have been held at 1:30

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PDN PhotoPlus Expo - Technology, The Immediacy of Now and the Steelpan Music Movement

New York, USA - Terry Joseph, the late entertainment editor for the Trinidad and Tobago national newspaper the Trinidad Express, once joked while lamenting (simultaneously impressed and irritated) that, in going through his normal routine after takin

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Regrello addresses Steelpan Community on Trinidad and Tobago G-pan allegations

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.-  Former minister in the previous government administration Junia Regrello called a press conference today, in response to allegations made by Trinidad and Tobago’s Attorney General Anand Ramlogan last Friday, and notification

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