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OLIVER WANG
The latest album from Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Serpent's Mouth, walks a tightrope between embracing steel pan's melodious charm and its kitschy past.
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Read more…The Passing of an Icon
Grenada, W.I. - It is with our deepest sympathy that we extend our prayers to the family and friends of Steel pan icon, Mr. Ken "Professor" Philmore.
On behalf of the entire steel band fraternity of Grenada, we pray that Almi
When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Ken “Professor” Philmore. He will be missed.
Read more…New York Champion Arranger Ken “Professor” Philmore Dies From Injuries Sustained In Vehicular Accident In Trinidad
Global - Music lovers are mourning the loss of steelband icon Ken “Professor” Philmore who passed away around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday 30,
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Trinidad & Tobago - “All I can tell you is that, “Professor” is my brethren, he will be very missed. A good player – a great player, a great friend – a personal friend of mine. To ‘loss’ a man, who so represent this country a lot, all ov
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Hours-long search
TENOR pan which ace pannist Ken “Professor” Philmore owns, loves and takes with him whenever and wherever he performs, was found in bushes near the scene of an accident which left Philmore warded at hospital.
Philmore suffere
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The Voice -
Written by Dotun Adebayo
Is it because Shakespeare is not black? And why should black have to be white to be valid Professor Paul Gilroy once noted that we reject the black “in the Union Jack” at our cost and peril. When Elvis embraced
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday -- Melissa Doughty
Minister of Community Development Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly experiences the Virtual Steelpan Museum which ran from February 7 to the 28 at the National Museum, Port of Spain.
Port-of-Sp
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Ignorance Experience with Leeandro Noray.
performing on a high C bore Tenor pan
made by birch Kelmen recently tuned by Augustus peters.
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Read more…“Musicians play music to uplift people, but every once in a while it's the musician that is in need of 'spiritual uplifting' the most....thankful for a great night in Tamshui Taiwan! ❤ ” ... Jonathan Scales
When Steel Talk
Hearts of Steel is a documentary film that follows a group of Toronto teenagers a they prepare and practise rigorously for a musical competition for steel bands. Along the way they learn leadership, commitment, trust, multi-cultural respect and the
Read more…“...my main role is to be a mentor, a leader, an organiser and a role model for the entire band. I think it’s very important to have women in lead roles, because this encourages girls and young women to express themselves and take on an active role.”
The great theme songs of Hollywood and Broadway played by solo panist, steelbands and steel orchestras.
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The national instrument is about to enter a new phase of the digital age through the effort of steelpan entrepreneur, designer and lawyer Liz Mannette, owner of Liz Mannette LLC - a design studio
Read more…The Washington Post
Washington, D.C., USA - ....“I completely separate the pan sound, because I want just the content of what I play to stand out,” he explains. “I’m never comfortable when people say, ‘Man, that’s crazy for a steel pan.’ For me, the
'The Fusion of Steelpan with Other Art Forms in the 21st Century'
Book tickets at:
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
Read more…Without a National Policy for Pan, situations like the eviction imbroglio that is presently confronting Birdsong are bound to occur. If the steelpan is the national instrument then we have to set up the national infrastructure within which steelbands
St. George's, Grenada, W.I. -- Kirk Seetahal, CEO of Spicemas, under which Grenada's National Panorama currently takes place, is under fire for the unprecdented and gross disrespect and contempt experienced by the steelband players and community in t
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz has renewed calls for a local masters degree programme in steelpan as people are learning Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument in other countries.
....He sa
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