by Dr. Keith Rowley
In April, Government will begin construction of a new, permanent home for 11-time Panorama Champions - Desperadoes Steel Orchestra.
Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Keith Rowley made the announcement last night during a visit t
It’s Celebration time for Ray’s first love, PAN
by Dalton Narine
Global - I feel pretty, now that I’ve flirted with Holman’s take on his lover boy spin about Pan, the new world’s glorious instrument. Ray Holman Holman lights a fire under the instrum
Read more…Hi everyone. I wanted to share a new piece I had premiered that features a pan ensemble. Players include lead, double seconds, triple cellos, and six bass. Score and link are listed below, I hope you guys enjoy it! Please let me know your thoughts.
Read more…J’Ouvert City International kicked off its 2018 celebration by honoring 25 individuals from our community who have worked hard behind the scenes to ensure that our culture is maintained in Central Brooklyn. They were known as “J’Ouvert Cultural Ambas
Read more…Global - Andy Narell’s new album, Oui ma Chérie!, is just the thing to gift the soul of music. Bright and splashy, it delivers a mosaic of ideas and sounds the Italians may well categorize as coloratura.
From the very first cut, Forward Home, arran
Read more…Sugar has played an important role in the development of the Caribbean. Artist Kara Walker has but together an intriguing display on the subject.
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Global - Khuent Rose is a scholar, an intellectual, brilliant, thoughtful and cerebral without being ‘disconnected and automated.’ His immense musical talent is undeniable as he remains spiritually, historically and actively engaged with the steelpan
The Sentinel
Stoke, Staffordshire, England - Organisers behind a popular carnival have been given £10,000 to start a new music project.
Members of the Six Towns One City Carnival Association (STOCCA) was given the grant by the Big Lottery Fund to he
Read more…1. 470 D'Radoes
2. 468 Adlib & CASYM
4. 454 Sonatas
5. 453 Pan Fantasy
6. 451 Crossfire...
7. 445 Pantonic
8. 443 Despers USA
9. 424 Harmony
10. 421 Steel Xplosion
11. 417 Metro
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Read more…Smith Mountain Eagle
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
Big Up to all the New York bands. It has been a Summer of great music, culture and fun. Now that all the band launches are essentially over, the main focus is "Panorama". Good luck to all the participating steel orchestra franchises. Catch you on th
Read more…A WST Opinion
Here is a reality check on what the New York steelband franchises are up against.
After years of poor, vision-less, spineless and/or corrupt leadership - particularly in the NY Caribbean communities the great steel orchestras of Brook
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New York, USA - J’Ouvert was in full effect in New York for 2013. Again the steelbands of New York and surrounding areas, along with rhythm sections put on a show that only iron and steel can deliver in the wee hours of Labor Day. New York J’Ouvert
Read more…There is no other panorama like New York's event. From its inception and through the Bradley years the New York steelband music competition has been about the current popular party songs for the most part. This year will be no different.
The Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago - Government may have to start from scratch on the construction of a headquarters for PanTrinbago, despite spending approximately $4 million on the existing structure at Orange Grove, Tacarigua. Minister of Art
Read more…The Vincentian
SJCK gets new steel pans
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - The student body of the SJCK celebrated the arrival of new pans for the St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown Pan Starz Orchestra, to the tunes of ‘We Jammin’, ‘Billy Jean’, ‘Diffe
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GETTING THE BEAT: Musician Ted Canning leads a group of Byron-Bergen fifth-graders in a traditional Trinidadian steel drum song as part of a grant-funded Artists in Education project.
Bergen - NY, USA — Trinidad and Tobago may be a long way from B
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New York continues to be one of the leading bastions of the large steel orchestra format in Panorama in the world - second only to Trinidad and Tobago. The Panorama pulse is alive as ten orchestras participated in the 2012 competition. The following
Metro Steel Orchestra is pleased to announce that their stage side’s practice sessions have begun, and are welcoming new players at this time.
Practice sessions are on:
Practice venue
Read more…NY Panorama 2012 - Panorama Arrangers Profiles
NY Panorama 2012 - Pan Sonatas - Yohan Popwell - Arranger -
www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2012/arrangers/yohan-popwell.htm
NY Panorama 2012 - Pantonic - Keith Roberts - Arranger -
http://www.panonthenet.com/tn
