FIRST STEELBAND TO WIN A PANORAMA AND WHAT YEAR?
Which is the First Steelband to win a Panorama and what year was it?
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Silver Stars USA Steel Orchestra Looks To Keep Coveted Title of Miami Broward Carnival Steel Band of The Year
Miami, Florida, USA - The scintillating and pulsating music of the steel pan has always played a significant role in the
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Parade Band’s Nearly $50K Float Stolen
Minnesota, USA - A popular parade band may have to go silent this summer because its float has gone missing.
The custom float that takes the Zuhrah Shrine Steel Drum Band to parades around the sta
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Minnesota, USA - ....some good news to report about a story from earlier this week. Police in Crystal say they’ve found a parade float that had been stolen.
The Zurah Shriner Steel Drum Band uses the float for parades throughout the s
Cayman 27
Cayman Islands - There’s nothing quite like the sound of a steel pan band. Young pan-jammers from all over the island put their sticks into action for a steel pan competition.
Schools from all around showed their talents off Thursday night
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A decision by the National Carnival Bands Association’s (NCBA) judges to deduct points from a reported 25 large bands for failing to start at their first judging point in Woodbrook, is threatening
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was Carnival Monday shortly after World War 2. The newly formed steelband players who called themselves, The Boys from Iwo Jima, but was dubbed “The White Boys from Corbeaux Town,” led by Ernes
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Thornbury, ENGLAND - A Thornbury- based steel band is planning a cultural visit to the West Indies.
The Castle School’s steel pan group Panache is travelling to Barbados to play in hotels, at a prestigious reception for the British Hi
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Virginia, USA - Inside the Smith Mountain Lake Gallery on a bitterly cold Saturday, Richard Rudolph directs a group of 15-20 adults thumping on brightly colored drums from the Island of Trinidad to bring a new sound to SML. In a
Read more…For the Historic record, they say that Steel pan started from the tamboo bamboo days, who was the first person that started beating on ah Dustbin or a pan when the Bamboo buss, was it Victor "Totee" Wilson, or Frederick "Mando" Wilson or "Gutter Rat"
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Tobago, W.I. - Tobago All Stars Steelband which once proudly flew the flag of Scarborough within the band movement has now been re-branded. According to Anthony John, who has been spearheading the revival of the once loved steelband, it w
Read more…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…With the advent of racks with wheels, came the challenging and gruesome task of moving steelbands from one place to another. That task was willingly and voluntarily picked up by none other than the steelband supporter. Were it not for those who becam
Read more…New York, USA - A hot and humid late Summer evening on Labor Day weekend in New York was made even more so by the fiery musical performances laid down by ten steel orchestras, as they vied for the 2013 championship title in North America’s premier s
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New York, USA - Leave it to Despers USA Steel Orchestra to bring together one of the more engaging band launches of the 2013 Brooklyn, New York steelpan music season. The first weekend in August saw seven of New York’s f
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Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - Periodically, throughout his 25 years of teaching in Cincinnati Public Schools and starting the wildly popular Over-the-Rhine Steel Drum Band and Clark Montessori Steel Band, Bruce Weil would be interviewed by r
Read more…New York, USA - It was the second weekend in August, and the final steel band music launch for the 2013 New York panorama season was underway. And it was finally the turn of Pantonic Steel Orchestra to host representations of several of the region’s
Read more…Brooklyn, New York, USA - Not even the continuous driving rain could dampen the spirits of the pan artists and/or beauty of the steelband on this Sunday night on the last weekend in July in New York. This was the third consecutive New York band laun
Read more…Brooklyn, New York, USA - The Summer night this time around might have been cooler than a few weeks ago when CrossFire Steel Orchestra hosted their 2013 pan yard opening, but the steelband sessions laid down during the music organization’s seasonal b
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Cambridge, Ohio, USA - Those who chance to hear sounds of the Caribbean wafting around the village, Cambridge or Zanesville should not be too surprised. Their ears are not deceiving them. There's a new band in town and it's br
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