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Black groups talk of performing in Mummers parade - Philadelphia Pan Stars

The Philadelphia Tribune

Philadelphia, USA - African-American performance groups who showed in the Mummers Parade on Sunday, said they were glad to be apart of the Mummers’ ongoing effort to diversify.

The Mummers parade has historically been chast

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Popular Minn. Zuhrah Shrine Steel Drum Band Silenced by Theft - Parade Band’s Nearly $50K Float Stolen

CBS Minnesota

Parade Band’s Nearly $50K Float Stolen

Minnesota, USA - A popular parade band may have to go silent this summer because its float has gone missing.

The custom float that takes the Zuhrah Shrine Steel Drum Band to parades around the sta

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Cops Find Steel Drum Band’s Stolen Parade Float

CBS Minnesota

Minnesota, USA - ....some good news to report about a story from earlier this week. Police in Crystal say they’ve found a parade float that had been stolen.
 
The Zurah Shriner Steel Drum Band uses the float for parades throughout the s

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Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister hands over cheque for SteelFesTT 2013

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC, MP, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, handed over a cheque on the afternoon of September 19 to representatives of SteelFesTT (Steelpan Festival of Trinidad & Tobago) at the Offi

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30 steelbands set for Laventille street parade

The Trinidad Guardian

Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was in 1999 that the Eastern Main Road in Success Village, Laventille, got its first taste of an Emancipation celebration.

This took the form of a steelband parade with a dozen bands bei

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Re: Miami pots and pans tradition explained. (Another WTF Moment in Pan History.)

As I listen to and read the "explanations" for the Miami Heat fans' "pots and pans tradition", I become more and more amused. So amused, that I had to shed some Ghostly "inconvenient truths" to my Latino peeps. This is what I came up with...how do yo

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Cambridge-based Pan Waves Steel Band plays at Sarnia’s Canada Day bash

The Sarnia Observer

Ontario, Canada - The sound of Kenrick Dookie's steel drumming was a new addition at this year's Canada Day celebration.

Dookie, 28, is a member of the Cambridge-based Pan Waves Steel Band that played at Sarnia's Canada Day bash

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Moving to WeBeat 2013 - The rhythm of Steel Orchestras, Calypso, Honorees and more

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thursday June 13^th has been designated “Pan Night” for WeBeat13. The annual WeBeat festival in St. James, north Trinidad, was originally inspired by then-Tourism and Industrial Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago (TI

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Carnival 1975 - Trinidad and Tobago - By Nick DeWolf Photo Archive

port of spain, trinidad
february 1975

trinidad carnival

carib tokyo, steel drum orchestra
parade of bands, panorama 1975
queen's park savannah

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Children’s Parade full of color and cheer

St. Thomas, USVI - ...Of course, no parade would be complete without steelpan music, and at the Children's Parade the bands were out in force: the Joseph Sibilly Elementary School steelpan; the 12-year-old Ulla F. Muller Panatics Steel Band, who were

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