Festival Steel Band night a bust! - no-show of bands - Tortola, BVI

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Tortola, British Virgin Islands - A night that was scheduled to feature several local and regional steel bands was a bust, where there were no performances by any steel bands and no announcement from the festival committee

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Scotland's first Steel Band festival - Nairn hosts first steel band festival this weekend

Nairn hosts first steel band festival

Scotland's first Steel Band festival – Panfest 2012 - is being staged this weekend at Nairn Academy, whose three steelbands will host a visit by bands from Aberdeen, Glasgow and East Ayrshire.  All will be perf

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Liam Teague headlines Steel Drum Festival

Pennsylvania, USA - The region's best steel drum bands will take the stage March 26 in the sixth annual Lincoln Park Steel Drum Festival, headlined by Liam Teague.

 

The festival is set for Monday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Lincoln Park's 750-seat th

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Setting the Mood - Moods Pan Groove Caribbean Food & Music Festival hits The Mark

Setting the Mood - Moods Pan Groove Caribbean Food & Music Festival hits The Mark

New York, USA - Hmmm... Let’s see. If you were not at the annual Moods Pan Groove Caribbean Food and Music Festival in Brooklyn, New York - what exactly did you miss?

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Steelband Music Festival (Pan is Beautiful XII) cancelled because of State of Emergency

Steelband Music Festival (Pan is Beautiful XII) cancelled

 

Trinidad and Tobago - Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. advises its membership and the general public that the Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Music Festival (Pan is Beautiful XII) scheduled to be

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Youlou Pan Movement - St. Vincent & the Grenadines 2011 Steelband season

Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. -  The Youlou Pan Movement is looking forward to a greater presence of steel bands in 2011 Carnival activities held both at Carnival City Victoria Park and elsewhere.
 

....The Pan Head said that the Youl

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“In The Rainforest” – An Unforgettable Steelband Experience - by Mark Loquan

Global - ....I returned to Trinidad in October 2000, specifically to play tenor with Skiffle Bunch, but I had only a week to learn the two pieces “In the Rainforest” and “Pan By Storm” before the finals. What a monumental effort. I remember learning

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Ace Panists Freddie Harris, III & Mustafa Alexander light up the Kemah Pan Jam Festival

Ace Panists Freddie Harris, III & Mustafa Alexander light up the Kemah Pan Jam Festival

Texas, USA - Two of New York’s well-known panists - Freddie Harris, III and Mustafa Alexander - made the trip down south to Texas not too long ago as the headline

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National Junior Steelband Festival 2010 Finalists

When Steel Talks extends congratulations to all the finalist of the Trinidad and Tobago 2010 National Junior Steelband Festival.

The Ministry of Education’s Pan in the Classroom Unit, in collaboration with the Pan in Schools Coordinating Council hosts

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Salah Wilson: a Man with a Vision, a Plan and a Point of Execution

Montreal, Quebec, Canada - The steelpan music movement - or the world for that matter - has never had a shortage of dreamers and procrastinators who can always find a reason why something ‘cannot happen.’ However, there are a distinct few individuals

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