There were many great steelpan music performances all over the globe 2012.
What are your choices for great steelpan music performances of 2012?
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february 1975
trinidad carnival
carib tokyo, steel drum orchestra
parade of bands, panorama 1975
queen's park savannah
South Africa will be blown away by the marimbas and steelpans at the Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival.
It will be held at Bishop Bavin School in Bedfordview, Gauteng on 4 and 5 August 2012.
Be prepared for over 1 000 marimba
Carnival’s Steelband Panorama Competition in Doubt
By: Tony Best - NY's Carib News
Less than six weeks before the colorful West Indian carnival is put on full display before more than a million spectators in Brooklyn, serious doubts have arisen
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Trinidad & Tobago - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar..."respectfully" disagreed with President George Maxwell Richards.
Richards, addressing both Houses of Parliament, stated that "except for the steelpan, we have b
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Tobago, W.I. - The RBC Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra recently launched its annual July-August holidays, “Redemption Academy Pan Camp” for children ages five and up.
The camp will run for four to five weeks after
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Wycome, England, U.K. -- Wycombe is fast becoming a ‘hub’ for calypso music thanks to the launch of a school dedicated to the steelpan drum.
The town’s MP and mayor went along to celebr
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| Freddy Harris III plays the steelpan six-bass in Brooklyn. |
WHEN STEELPAN VIRTUOSO FREDDYHarris III heads to his gig, he doesn’t just bring a bass player—he brings eight of them. And they’re not playing the kind of bass you are imagining.
Har
Read more…Take a bow folks. You are the most knowledgeable and engaged steelpan music fans anywhere. Over the this past weekend the Trinidad and Tobago Folk Art Society presented WST with a recognition award. With thousands of facebook members, 10,000 plus me
Read more…New York Pan... much more than entertainment - it’s an experience, it’s culture, it’s community, it’s affirmation of life... the tradition continues...
New York Champs of Steel Concert
New York, USA - The big guns in the New York steelpan music fr
Read more…Trinidad Express Editorial
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Just in time for tomorrow's start of the international Steelfestt festival comes the news that the government is ready to fast track Pan Trinbago's long languishing headquarters. W
Read more…Another When Steel Talks Concert Review
New York, New York - For this Spring Steel Orchestra co
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Read more…Embassy of Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain, Trinidad - On Monday 19th March, in a moving ceremony held at the National Academy of Performing Arts, the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism presented 3 steelpans to members of the Steelpan
NIU Today
Illinois, USA - Before he retires this year, NIU music professor Robert Chappell will put together one more recital that promises to be funny, sentimental and, as usual, unforgettably entertaining.
All of his past recitals have been speci
The Woodstock Independent
Illinois, USA - The unconventional has become the norm for Woodstock resident Matt Potts.
As a percussionist in the Woodstock High School band, Potts taught himself to play a steelpan he purchased on a whim off eBay. Duri
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Read more…"... Why do we need to plan our lives and educational strategies around a divisive concept like multiculturalism which, contrary to its benign 'many c
St. Vincent & The Grenadines, W.I. - The Pan Against Crime (PAC) Programme, the brain child of Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves was launched on February 20th 2008. Under the guidance of Godfred Pompey-Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Nationa
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