Washington Post
Washington, DC, USA - An enormous poster of the movie “Casablanca” looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The poster does not suggest any pa
Does the Trinidad & Tobago Government have any Say So or Powers over Pan Trinbago? If I am Funding your Organization do I have a Say So? Then again, Whose Organization is it anyway, is it The People's Organization, the T&T Organization or Keith Diaz
Read more…Do we Judge Music more on Sight than Sound? I say Yes, and we should do something about it,
Read more…Today April 1st (All Fools Day) is my Good Friend Rudolph Walker Birthday, I played together with Rudolph in City Symphony and he also played with Solo Harmonites, (he has been around) Enjoy your Day Rudy..
Read more…NGC Couva Joylanders and bp Renagades will play first in their respective categories on Saturday (14th February 2015) as the National Panorama Medium & Large Conventional Bands Finals take centre stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Tr
Read more…The T & T Govt' need to make Carnival Monday "Steelband day" so we can save the Steelbands in Trinidad & Tobago. Make it a Law that there will be no Big Boom Boxes/ Speakers on those Big Trucks on that day, and the Police need to enforce the Law. The
Read more…Congrats Ian Franklin on your 26th Wedding Anniversary today and I wish you and your Wife Joan many more,
Read more…Brent & Kilburn Times
London, England, U.K. - Brent youngsters showed that they do have talent after taking part in a grand performance showcasing the very best of classical music–all played on steel drums.
Members of the St Michaels and All Angels
Read more…Did San Juan All Stars played "Return of Battle Cry" in 1960 or 1962? And did Despers sent a warning to San Juan All Stars not to pass the flyover, but they continued to enter Port of Spain, and a Police contingent followed San Juan All Stars all th
Read more…Yorkshire Evening Post
Leeds, England - Tributes have been paid to a Leeds car mechanic turned professional musician whose life was transformed after he appeared on a TV talent show.
Sonny Marks, who died last week aged 73, was a founder member one
Read more…In the Year 1959, San Juan All Stars received one of the Worst Cutarse From Desperadoes. Despers protected their Women and Children in The ARK, Punished San Juan All Stars and went on to the Savannah to depict (Portray) their Mas. (It wasn't no big t
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Documentary, Pan! Our Music Odyssey opens T+T Film Festival at Globe
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Globe Cinema came alive and was packed to capacity last Tuesday evening, as specially-invited guests from all walks of l
Florida Department of State
Florida, USA - Secretary of State Ken Detzner and the Florida Department of State’s Division of Historical Resources invite the public to a performance of Trinidadian steel drum music at Mission San Luis, Thursday evening
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family friends of veteran radio broadcaster, and ardent lover and supporter of the steelband culture and art form, Holly Thomas.
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Twin brother and sister Dejean and Deja Cain are young, timid and small in size; but don’t let that fool you.
These youngsters already have a talent that can rival that of their adult counterpa
Read more…The Sentinel
Stoke, Staffordshire, England - Organisers behind a popular carnival have been given £10,000 to start a new music project.
Members of the Six Towns One City Carnival Association (STOCCA) was given the grant by the Big Lottery Fund to he
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GROUP PHOTO WITH NLA’S GENERAL MANAGER – MR. GEOFFREY GILBERT AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH STEEL-BAND WHICH TOOK PART IN THE 2014 SMC/NLA PAN EXPRESSIONS.
“Steel Bands get paid for 2014 Pan Expressio
Read more…Do we have anybody on this Site that can relate to the Steelband Clash with Invaders and Tokyo (I think it was 1950) EG: like where you were at the time, what you saw? or what you hear from your Parents or your friends, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Read more…All pannists are specially invited to participate in the Virtual Steelband, a musical ensemble of pannists spanning the globe virtually. It is an opportunity for pannists to video record themselves playing a specific piece of music to a specific temp
Read more…Hello Friends, Do anyone have a recording of Antillean all stars playing bassman Arranged by Henry "Bendix" Cumberbatch. I think its 1974. I am trying to find this for a very good friend of mine, this was the Tune he heard that inspired him to start
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