Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Venezuelan migrant boys and girls in TT will receive steelpan classes, says new Venezuelan ambassador Álvaro Sánchez Cordero (pictured).
This plan is part of the education and support programme
Read more…The Garrett County Republican
Oakland, Maryland, USA - Steel drums have been a part of the curriculum at Crellin Elementary Sc
Read more…BY LAUREN OWENS Morning News
FLORENCE, S.C. — The sounds of steel drums can be heard from the music class at Greenwood Elementary School this week.
Kimberly Roberts, a Lexington-based artist, visited third-grade students at Greenwood Elementary thi
The Valley Vanguard
Michigan, USA - On Saturday, Oct. 22, assistant professor of music education at SVSU (Saginaw Valley State University) Brandon Haskett gave a solo steel drum performance in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall.
The pieces performed incl
Read more…Radio Rebelde
Havana, Cuba - With the objective of promoting Steelpan drum teaching in Cuba, The Traveling Caribbean Cinema Exhibition (MICC) and the legal representation of Sanch Electronix Ltd. of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, signed a lett
Read more…Brooklyn, New York, USA - “Extra, Extra, read all about it - the CASYM Steel Orchestra organization has executed another successful event.” You have heard the narrative, seen the headline and lived the experience before, but it never gets old. In fac
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As an expansion of its existing efforts, the birdsong steelband is from this month offering a free after-school music education programme for early teens and pre-teens.
The after-school programme
Read more…The Royal Gazette
Bermuda - Paul Smith is a man on a mission: to change everything you think you know about the steel pan.
The 31-year-old musician uses the steel pan to play everything from John Legend’s ‘Ordinary People’, Drake’s ‘Find Your Love’ a
Global - It’s a Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, It’s a Tale of Two Cities, all wrapped into one - but mostly it’s a tale of an improbable journey. A life’s journey that began in East Dry River, Port-of-Spain, on the island of Trinidad with it
Please email me if you are interested in applying for the job opening below. The job description is attached.
Position Title: Rhythm Project Associate Director
The Rhythm Project is an after-school world percussion program that uses Caribbean Steelp
Read more…Please email me if you are interested in applying for the job opening below. The job description is attached.
Position Title: Rhythm Project Associate Director
The Rhythm Project is an after-school world percussion program that uses Caribbean Steelp
Read more…Please email me if you are interested in applying for the job opening below. The job description is attached.
Position Title: Rhythm Project Associate Director
The Rhythm Project is an after-school world percussion program that uses Caribbean Steelp
Read more…Many WST members, fail to understand how the mechanisms of "institutional racism" operate. We already see the "No Pan In The Classroom" issue taking "center stage". I wanted to share with you a more close-up view of how this form (of racism and race
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As you all know, literacy and education, are very important to me. I am an avid reader, and, the idea dawned on me to start a "book club" on this site. I welcome suggestions on how we go about choosing the "book of the month", and
Read more…In reaction to the recent "multicultural" paradigm shift of the "pan in the classroom" by many, including those in the current administrations of (both) the government and Pan Trinbago, quite a number of WST members have been posting feelings of ange
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, composer, arranger and educator - scholar Salah Wilson, shares his visions and overall thoughts on Panorama, its past, present and future...
“Competition raises the standard
"The pan is now playing an important part in the rehabilitation and restoration of the mentally ill, thanks to music therapist, Jamal Glynn. In a programme now under way at the St Ann’s Mental Hospital Jamal is assigned to the Psychology Departmen
Read more…To ALL My Pan Colleagues,
This week I got the disturbing news that my FMU Jazz Instructor, Melton Mustafa, needs our help. Doc, as I call him, is one of the most dedicated music teachers I have ever had the pleasure of being taught by. His students
Read more…Hi to ALL my pan colleagues. Today, I thought I'd share the MOST credible approach to making a claim. For you who may not know, although I am a music major, I became very interested in my minor field of psychology (partly to understand my own past an
Read more…Panorama 2009 in Trinidad and Tobago was a first and interesting experience for me. There were too many problems. So I would like to know... When will we come to a point where we will have better communication and organization in our pan communities
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