Revisiting - Meet Salmon Cupid - Panist, Organizer, Arranger, Director, and Innovator

Toronto, Canada - Recently steelband music history was created on a global scale when the Salmon Cupid-led Toronto All Stars Steel Orchestra participated in the 2019 NBA Champion Toronto Raptors live broadcast celebration parade, as hundreds of tho

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All Stars win J’Ouvert Bomb competition

Trinidad All Stars won the NLCB  (National Lotteries Control Board) Northern Region J’Ouvert Bomb competition on Carnival Monday morning at Victoria Square, Port of Spain.

The 2017 Panorama Champion (Large Band category) played Theme from The Magnifi

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Edwin Pouchet – A tribute by Mark Loquan, former stage side member of Silver Stars

Background (Extract from Yara/Music Literacy Trust/UWI event for Silver Stars 60th Anniversary)
“Edwin grew up in pan. His brother, Junior, was the arranger of a steel band that practiced for hours when preparing for a music festival or Carnival in t

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New York Pan Stars present Pantastic Friday

Pan, powder and fog in de place!

New York, USA - In concert with the band, the crowd spontaneously and enthusiastically shouted - “Spread yuh hands and leh go - Spread yuh hands in the air everybody - Spread yuh hands and leh go - Hand in the air...

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Neville Jules Speaks - Revisted

There are a collective few who bear the distinction of being universally recognized as members of that unique, and special fraternity we at When Steel Talks refer to as Giants and Titans of “Pan and the Steelpan Movement.” Through their intellect, ta

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Power Stars Ready for Panorama Final 2012

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Steelbands at WeBeat 2011

What are your thoughts of the performances by several steelbands which performed during WeBeat Festival 2011?

 

On the Thursday night at the Pan Explosion show Rhapsody Steel Orchestra opened the show with what has become their customary fusion of PH

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Pan Explosion at WeBeat

WeBeat - Pan Explosion show takes place on Thursday 9th June from 8pm at the St. James Amphitheatre, Port of Spain. The show will feature four popular steelbands.

 

The four bands are: Reigning Panorama Champions Trinidad All Stars, Invaders, Tripoli

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David Maunday, veteran North Stars Steelpan Musician Speaks

Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, veteran North Stars Steel Orchestra player David Maunday shares an insider’s view of what and who made Trinidad & Tobago’s Pan Am North Stars Steel Orchestra so legendary, and a business basti

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Revisited - The Ivory and Steel Recording 40 Years Later, Still a Cultural Phenomenon

The Ivory and Steel Recording 40 Years Later, Still a Cultural Phenomenon How a dragon and a butterfly made it historic by Dalton Narine

Global. - They already had a name that fit – Ivory and Steel. Actually, they made a record, did Winifred Atwell

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Prelim Panorama 2011 perfomances & more - Trinidad and Tobago

Prelim Panorama 2011 perfomances & more - Trinidad and Tobago

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‘Battle Zone’ is top Soca Pan Song of the Year

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. -....It was just one week prior at Parang and Steel that cheers rung out with news that Battle Zone – Silver Stars’ tune-of-choice for Panorama 2010 – won the Soca Pan Song of the Year prize at the International Soca Awards.

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Legends -- Lennard “Scrubb” Wellington - St. Lucia's North Stars

St. Lucia - Somewhere in the 1940’s a young man named Lennard “Scrubb” Wellington, started on his way to become St. Lucia’s steelband maestro. He had experimented with music from the age of seven and his real interest in pan started after World W

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The Stars Came Out to Shine: Silver Stars Make History as 2009 Panorama Champions

Trinidad, W.I. - The stars came out, and they did shine!! Silver Stars Steel Orchestra, that is. Making history as they did so, the band which calls Tragarete Road in Woodbrook, Trinidad their home, had three “firsts” at the end of the competition.

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Silver Stars Steel Orchestra -2009 Panorama Champions

With a score of 469 Silver Stars Steel Orchestra became the new champions of the large bands category in the Trinidad and Tobago steelband panorama competition. They edged out the defending champions Phase II Pan Groove by a point. This victory is th

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