WST History of Pan Time Line
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While looking up info on pan layouts and purchase, I came across Definite Pitch. I was quite interested in Ansel Joseph's Pan Notes, which amount to his account of the evolution of pan and steelband. I found them quite compelling and logical. I co
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The history of steelpan as chronicled in Trinidad newspapers is now only a click away. As a result of a grant from UWI and collaboration between students at UWI and the UWI library, more than 4,
Read more…Habari Gani:
As the United States begins “Black History Month”, African-Americans need to be informed of a part of their “history”, which continues to be omitted from the celebration. Granted, the steel drum (steelpan or pan) is not “American”, howe
Read more…For the Historic record, they say that Steel pan started from the tamboo bamboo days, who was the first person that started beating on ah Dustbin or a pan when the Bamboo buss, was it Victor "Totee" Wilson, or Frederick "Mando" Wilson or "Gutter Rat"
Read more…Whenever mentioned is made of the great pan soloists and jazz improvisation masters, none is made of Othello Molineaux? Why is that? Othello's and Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel, Othello's works with the legendary Jaco Pastorius and the legendar
Read more…Salmon Cupid, the inventor of the E-Pan, in his attempt to assert and attach his (version of a MIDI) controller to the hip of the steel drum (steelpan), has been trying to convince the steelband community that he has no intention to compete with the
Read more…In continuing to focus on the (often) unmentioned heroes of the Steelband Movement, we must acknowledge and honor those women who were instrumental in "pan moving forward". The STEELBAND SHEROES! Indeed, once the "steelbandsmen" figured out how to co
Read more…As I listen to and read the "explanations" for the Miami Heat fans' "pots and pans tradition", I become more and more amused. So amused, that I had to shed some Ghostly "inconvenient truths" to my Latino peeps. This is what I came up with...how do yo
Read more…Dai Ailian is China's legendary ballerina who was born in 1916 into an overseas Chinese family living in #Trinidad. Her years as a dance teacher and educator helped China build a generation of dancers, choreographers, and educators. She is known by #
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Let me fill in the missing pieces and some clarification of Sundowners.
The original Sundowners was captained by Selwyn Dayal and I was the music arranger. The address was at Purcell Street in a garage which belonged to Selwyn's famil
by Stokely Carmichael
Sometime in the late 1930′s, the government in another of its persistent and futile attempts to suppress African cultural survivals, decided that the colony would more easily be governable if drums and other traditional musical
Read more…Global - It is said that our lives are inextricably linked together in ways we may never know or imagine.
....Years ago a very young Ray Holman arranged the Beatles’ original and the now classic Penny Lane for Starlift Steel Orchestra. While this so
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was an occasion for reminiscing by several elders of the steelband movement, an entity that represents the most interesting and inspiring developments in grass-roots musical creation and culture
Read more…Carnival’s Steelband Panorama Competition in Doubt
By: Tony Best - NY's Carib News
Less than six weeks before the colorful West Indian carnival is put on full display before more than a million spectators in Brooklyn, serious doubts have arisen
Read more…Many WST members, fail to understand how the mechanisms of "institutional racism" operate. We already see the "No Pan In The Classroom" issue taking "center stage". I wanted to share with you a more close-up view of how this form (of racism and race
Read more…After continued "pressure", I finally got the CEO of the Africa Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company (ATTSDC), Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, to answer questions posed at him. Although, he has been a WST member since Aug 2010, this was the most
Read more…Master Tuner Wallace Austin
Wallace Austin at Basement Recordings/ WST Studios
Wallace Austin is considered as one of the finest steelpan tuners ever. Wallace Austin was part of the legendary team of tuners (Rudolph Charles, Lincoln Noel, James 'Bas
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