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Revisited -- Meet Master Akini Gill, Masters of Music Education - UpClose!

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

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Othello Molineaux - The Unmentioned Jazz Improvisation Master

Whenever mentioned is made of the great pan soloists and  jazz improvisation masters, none is made of Othello Molineaux? Why is that? Othello's and Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel, Othello's works with the legendary Jaco Pastorius  and the legendar

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‘Potential’ shows at pan music school

The Trinidad Guardian

Panyard students ready for the world

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Students graduating from Potential Symphony Steel Orchestra’s Music School in the Community project sponsored by the Ministry of the Arts and Multiculturalism on Se

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Jim Wharton- Catonsville High School music teacher, steelpan instructor retiring after 40 years

The Baltimore Sun

Jim Wharton retires tomorrow, Friday, after 40 years as music instructor

Students praise steel drum band founder’s infectious enthusiasm

Maryland, USA - The steel drum sounds that filled the room at Catonsville High School were so i

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Toronto school board saves music program - previous story: Toronto District School Board considers muting music programs to balance budget

UPDATE

The Globe and Mail - June 19, 2013

Toronto school board saves music program

Toronto, Canada - The Toronto District School Board will save its cherished music program.

 

Trustees voted Wednesday night to balance its books by cutting nearly $30

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Misleading and disingenuous headline by Trinidad Guardian: "Ryan crime report: Soca music breeding criminals"

Ryan crime report: Soca music breeding criminals

 

Trinidad Guardian

Soca, dancehall and hip-hop music are said to be influencing youths into criminal behaviour. This is according to a report by the Ryan Committee on Youth at Risk. The report was lai

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El Cerrito new home to Caribbean music center

MercuryNew.com

EL CERRITO -- While its setting and mild climate may not resemble a Caribbean island in any way, the city has become a center for steel drum music, a style that originated in Trinidad and Tobago, islands off the coast of Venezuela.

Ste

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Stage set for Style and Steel at Sforzata Pan yard - Caribbean Fashion Plus Week 2012 puts “Pan In Style”

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It will be a colourful explosion of steel pan music and stylish fashions for ‘Pan In Style’ - a runway Fashion Show and After Party, unfolding on Saturday 3^rd November 2012 at the pan yard of Sforzata Steel Orchestra in St.

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New York Steelband music Panorama 2012 Info

New York Steelband music Panorama 2012 Info

New York - New York Steelband music panorama 2012 competition results, tunes, orchestras, bands, captains, arrangers, tuners, songs read more

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Caribbean Fashion Plus Week 2012 puts “Pan In Style”

28 October 2012

All eyes will be on the Caribbean and host country Trinidad and Tobago for the largest Plus Size Fashion week event in the region.  Caribbean Fashion Plus Week is hosted

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Is WIADCA the Evil Empire?

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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Back In Time - ‘90s in the House of Pantonic: New York steel bands come out to play- Wet-fete & all!

Brooklyn, New York, USA - So not even the torridness of the then-unfolding heat wave or the downpour of rain, could put a ‘damper’ on last weekend’s Pan fete. It was “Back in Times” through the ‘90s, New York style. Yes it has begun - “Pan in New Yor

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A show of musical excellence - a birdsong steel orchestra music academy initiative

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The recent Birdsong annual Scholarship Benefit Concert was one of the best productions staged at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium of the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA) since its openin

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Jamaica's Blue Print Steel Pan Band main course of live music for Mothers' Day

The Jamaica Gleaner

A good day for moms - Mona Visitors’ Lodge gives mothers the perfect gift

         

Mona, Jamaica, W.I. - ....Organised by the Mona, Visitors' Lodge and Conference Centre, the elegant but informal setting saw mothers being treated

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Rush to learn music in panyards

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Music Schools in the Panyard Programme began with a bang on Monday with citizens of all creeds, races and ages converging at the designated panyards to grasp the opportunity of learning to pla

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Ramajay – The “Art of Noise”, Ad Libitum! (A Discussion on Jazz Improvisation.)

In the ongoing debate over the recent posting of the video clip, titled, Boogsie the Greatest, one of my former “teachers”, Eric, solicited me to expand on my statement that “ramajay and jazz improve, are two entirely different things, with the forme

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Potts hammering the way for steelpans

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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Are We "Musicians", Or Exotic Props Stuck In The Stereotype?

Recently, a call came in – someone was looking for a steel drum player for a local gig, and was referred to this one “working panman" from Trinidad; a Florida resident, and one of Boogsie's "crackshot" tenor pan players for Phase II. Negotiations wer

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Is the current group of Soca artists developing a reality check?

Is the current group of Soca artists developing a reality check?

"Have we lost the whole concept of what soca is all together melody should not be one we throw to pan alone but to MUSIC on a whole!"

Fay Ann Lyons- Alvarez

Has the musical pendulum

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Pan music missing from Camana Bay Town Centre - Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands - Camana Bay Town Centre is no longer featuring steel pan music on the Paseo on Wednesday nights.

According to Camana Bay Town Centre manager Ken Hydes, there are a number of programmes at the town centre they are looking to revamp in 2

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