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The Tobago News
Tobago, W.I. - Two Tobago calypso stars will be launching their new songs for the carnival season next Friday.
2013 Tobago Calypso Queen, Roslyn Reid and Ware will be releasing their CDs at the Docksite on Milford Road, Scarborough.
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This Ohio State marching Band video of "Michael Jackson Tribute" generated well over two million views in 2 days. There are many, many similarities between the marching bands (church drum and bugle corp) and the steelbands of the last century. From
Read more…The Ubyssey
by: Mariam Baldeh
British Columbia, Canada - College dropout and proud father Gage Averill — when he’s not busy as dean of the Arts faculty at UBC — is a world-renowned ethnomusicologist. To find out exactly what that means, and how mus
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
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This is the project Jaco was working on for several years with Othello Molineaux, the steel pan player who often played with Jaco and appears on a couple of his officially released albums. I recall reading about this in Downbeat back in the early 80'
The Longevity Of The Steel Drum/Pan by George D. Goddard, B.A.
Cosmetic Surgery: If pan was a human body, there are many who believe that "Nature" (God) made mistakes, and made something that was imperfect, and needing perfection. So, like the human
Read more…The steel drum or steelpan is classified as an idiophone, by the Hornbostel-Sacs Number System (111.24).The P.H.I., E-Pan, MalletKat, and PanKat, however, are classified as "electrophones" (Numbers not assigned). Therefore, the E-Pan is NOT a steelpa
Read more…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
Read more…I wanted to share what works for me... to bring my pan on stage and not be drowned out by the conventional amplified guitars and the sort. Also, to dispel the myth that you cannot mic a pan without feedback.
I added a picture of my rig, and yes, I
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…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
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…Trinidad Guardian
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - Grenada’s Spice Mas 2013 has been dedicated to T&T’s national instrument, the steelpan. The theme of this year’s festivities is Sweet Steelpan Music, The Sound and Rhythm of Spice Mas, Tourism and Cultu
By Colville Mounsey
Renowned pannist, Len “Boogsie” Sharpe presenting CDs to (from right) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, Minister of Culture for Trinidad and Tobago, Lincoln Douglas; and Barbados’ Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley.
Barbados - A
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South Africa - More than 1400 musicians from South Africa and beyond will come together in a thrilling spectacle at the International Marimba and Steelpan Festival.
Now in its second year, this entertaining family-oriented musica
Read more…The sweet sounds of the steel pan will float across Barbados this weekend starting tomorrow night with First Citizens Pan Fusion at Ilaro Court.
Then there will be pan in two cities when the National Cultural Foundation/Caribbean Broadcasting Corpora
Read more…The Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - ....A surprising revelation was made early in the proceedings by St Mary’s Dean Enrico Rajah, one which sent pan archivists and Pan Trinbago officials searching their memories for verification.
Raja
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Trinidad US Biden
05/28/2013
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by Trinidad & Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, tries out a steelpan, the traditional percussion instrument of the Caribb
The Baltimore Sun
Jim Wharton retires tomorrow, Friday, after 40 years as music instructor
Students praise steel drum band founder’s infectious enthusiasm
Maryland, USA - The steel drum sounds that filled the room at Catonsville High School were so i
