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Quick Chart - St Lucia 2026 Panorama Order of Appearance - The Anatomy of Panorama

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Saint Lucia, W.I. - There are five steel orchestras vying for the country’s 2026 National Panorama championship on Sunday July 12 in the annual steelband music competition, part of the carnival events calendar.

Defending it

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Hatters - Mash Up (Blaxx; Soca, 2022) - Prelims 2023 - Arranger Richard Alvin Gittins

Hatters Steel Orchestra perform their preliminaries at the Hatters Pan Theatre, 100 Lady Hailes Avenue, San Fernando, Trinidad, TT.
Tune: Mash Up by Blaxx (Soca, 2022).
Arranger: Richard Alvin Gittins.

Medium Conventional Steelbands, South Central Pr

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Tell Me Why - Deh na dey! Ent!

Tell Me Why - Deh na dey! Ent!

You’re not going to see these for the 2023 season again, which is a great pity; but I just love ‘em to bits.

It's not about the kids either, although I love them all the same as well, they just happen to be coincidental

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Bands to show their steel at Cape Town Steelband Festival

News 24

Cape Town, South Africa - The Cape Town Steelband Festival will take place this coming Saturday (14 May) at the Baxter Concert Hall.

Starting at 15:00, the festival will showca

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Pan giants Len "Boogsie" Sharpe and Anthony Williams

 

Photo by Garvin Blake

Relevant content:

• Meet Anthony Williams - Master Steelpan Innovator and Leader - UpClose!

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A Moment in Pan Music Misery - Brooklyn, New York

The state of Brooklyn's Steel Orchestras 

photo by Noah Smit

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Remembering the legendary steelband leader George “Sonny” Goddard on his Birthday

When Steel Talks

Remembering leader, author, organizer, activist, historian

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WHEN "WOMEN IN PAN" INCLUDE WIVES AND MOTHERS OF PANMEN WHO USED SWIZZLE STICKS TO PLAY BOTH POTS AND PANS, THEN WE WOULD HAVE EVOLVED INTO OUR HIGHER SELVES. (TELL DEM GEORGIE SAY SO.) HBD, MOMMY!

See Title. lol. (Why waste time writing further, when NO ONE wants me to. lol.)

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Pan Trinbago to lose $5m in revenue

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Revenues for Pan Trinbago, the governing body for pan players, could fall by at least $5 million due to the cancellation of Carnival 2021.

While Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s confirmation—tha

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National honour for Hells Gate Steel Orchestra

The Antigua Observer

Reigning Panorama champions Hells Gate Steel Orchestra will become the first steelband in Antigua and Barbuda to receive a national honour, after the government decided to confer the accolade on the 75-year-old band during the 2

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Time to say goodbye. Trinidad is not interested so I donated my entire collection of calypso, steelpan, combo, chutney, big band, rapso, Christmas, parang, Caribbean soul... music from 1912 to 1989

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Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly no longer Trinidad & Tobago Minister of Culture

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The government of Trinidad & Tobago has been sworn in.  Former Minister of Community Development and Culture Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly is now the Minister of Education. The responsibility for the national Steelband art form was

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Wiemer-Hastings - Steelband Bass player receives Palmer Family scholarship

Daily Chroicle

Sycamore, Illinois, USA – Jesse Wiemer-Hastings, a graduate of DeKalb High School, is the recipient of the 2020 Palmer Family Music Education Scholarship award.

Historically, the scholarship recipient is honored at the first DeKalb M

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NYPD sergeant with a history of faulty arrests sued by steelband leader

NYPD’s most-sued officers: 87 lawsuits filed against 14 cops in just two years

By Graham Rayman  NY Daily News

It was a warm August night in Flatbush in 2018 when Michael Demas and his steel drum band were performing in a vacant lot at an impromptu g

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Arranger Earl 'BJ' Brooks Junior showing a hand with his dad. Hatters Prelims 2020 (SC Medium)

Arranger Earl 'BJ' Brooks Junior showing a hand with his dad. Hatters Prelims 2020 (SC Medium)

 Earl Brooks Junior, somewhat reluctant to use his familiar and much loved sobriquet ‘BJ’, for obvious related reasons, but knowing full well that ‘he cah

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Finals Order of Appearance for SMALL Steel Orchestras - Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama 2020

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Eastern Small Conventional Steel Orchestra Preliminaries - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama 2020

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While seeing to the Christmas ham, pastelles, parang, and like preparations, some Trinidadians and Tobagonians are also having another key focus: Pan.  This, as the preliminaries in the small conventional steel orchestra cat

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Small Conventional Steel Bands 2020 Panorama Preliminaries Kick Off December 9

Five (5) Small Conventional Bands in the Northern Region ie West Stars. Merry Tones, Humming Birds, Harvard Harps and Flabej Now Ensemble will start the National Panorama Small Conventional Preliminaries 2020 on Monday December 09, 2019 from 7:00 pm

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When Steel Talks extends Congratulations to Trinidad All Stars & Dr. Mia Gormandy-Benjamin

A Moment In Pan - Classical Jewels XII - Trinidad All Stars - The Movie Under the musical direction of Dr. Mia Gormandy-Benjamin

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The Steel Orchestra and the Immersive Audio experience - a match made in audio heaven?

When Steel Talks through our recording wing Basement Recordings, has had the good fortune of being associated with some of the best steelpan and steel orchestra recordings ever produced. Part of that fortune has been a keen understanding of the Pan i

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