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At This West Virginia Steelpan Drum Company, A Visionary’s Beat Goes On

West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Osage, West Virginia, USA - It takes about 40 hours of hammering to turn a steel drum into a ste

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Big-Up to Mr. Nevin Roach and the 2021 PanoGrama crew

Congratulations to PanoGrama founder and event producer Nevin Roach on a job well done, buttressed by always current and timely event information. He upped his game all round this year, and with his team, delivered an even better virtual product tha

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Am­ral Khan, founder of Am­ral’s Trav­el and a well known steel­band im­pre­sario, has died

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Am­ral Khan, founder of Am­ral’s Trav­el and a well known steel­band im­pre­sario, has died.

Khan cre­at­ed one of the most pop­u­lar trav­el agen­cies in the coun­try, mak­ing his mark as an ex­em­plary busi­ness­man. He l

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Chinese Steel Orchestra receives $50,000 donation

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Trinidad and Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble has received a donation of $50,000 as seed money towards the purchase of a vehicle to transport instruments.

The donation came from Bernice Ho-Leanza, daughter of the Chinese A

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Louise McIntosh - Trinidad & Tobago - WST Spotlight

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “She was a former student of the great music phenom, Winifred Atwell. And as the founder of and an educator at the Pan Pipers Music School, she provided the entree point and s

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CLAUDIA JONES founder of the Notting Hill Carnival

CLAUDIA JONES founder of the Notting Hill Carnival was born in Trinidad. She moved to the United States with her family when she was eight years old.

In early adulthood Claudia Jones joined the Young Communist League in the US, eventually becoming

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