School Steeldrum program cut - Southwest’s Island Steel Drum Band to perform final concert after 22 years

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San Diego, California, USA - The Island Steel Drum Band comprised of students from Southwest Middle School and Southwest High School in South Bay San Diego will perform together for the last time Monday [May 24].  After 22 years, the steel

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Ouachita offers after-school, community steel band program to Peake Elementary School students

Arkansas, USA - Ouachita Baptist University has begun offering an after-school, community steel band program for fourth and fifth graders from Peake Elementary School in Arkadelphia. The steel band, called Pan Harmony, meets every Monday on Ouachita

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Steelpan gone Ivy League -- The Princeton University Steel Band

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NYU Steel Ensemble 2017 Spring Concert:  Beyond Talk - Walking the Walk

The faces change, folks graduate and move on, but NYU Steel through its association with the prestigious NYU Percussion Program keeps on keeping on. The goals and cultu

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Musical Gift to the Community - Tropicalfete Count Down Show - Tropicalfete Steel Pan Ensemble performs

Brooklyn, New York, USA - Multicultural art, non-profit organization Tropicalfete, Inc. is excited once again to unveil their annual year-end event presentation. This season’s offering is billed as ‘A Musical Gift to the Community - Tropicalfete Cou

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Grammy Foundation awards Portland High School $5,500 music grant to fund steel drum band

Portland Press Herald

One of only 13 awards nationwide, its aim is to broaden the music program for a culturally diverse student population

 

Maine, USA - Portland High School is starting a steel drum band as a way to expand its music program beyond

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Another Side of Northern Illinois University (NIU) Steel Band

DeKalb, Illinois - Under the vision and direction of Liam Teague and Clifford Alexis the steelpan, the music of the steelpan instrument and by extension “Pan,” the culture and experience, have grown, been disseminated widely across the world, and mo

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‘Pan Is Beautiful XII’ official program is set

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Micahi Felician, Stryke Stars and Exodus Steel Orchestra will each be defending their respective titles at this year’s edition of the Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Music Festival – Pan is Beautiful XII.

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Community Center’s Low-Cost Music Program Breaking Down Cultural Walls

Youth Today

New York, USA - A shabby community center on the first floor of one of the 12 buildings that make up the vast Gov. Alfred E. Smith public houses is where social workers and teachers are hoping music can break down cultural barriers.

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Steel drum program - 'Soundwaves' - for teens a hit but needs permanent funding

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Pennsylvania, USA - Janera Solomon, the theater's executive director, wasn't content to just listen to the students rehearse. She picked up a pair of mallets and joined the students, bobbing along to the beat. As the daughter

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CASYM Steelpan Performance, Music and Arts School Programs = Success, Generations and Legacy

New York - There are few steelpan music organizations that can match or rival the music educational  success record of New York’s CASYM Steel Orchestra.

The Big Apple steelpan music franchise has been a productive fixture within the New York educat

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Maha Sabha: No pan

Maha Sabha: No pan

'One school approved for national instrument...'

By Julien Neaves

OPPOSITION MP Donna Cox has said only one school was app

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Herkimer Elementary Steel Drum Band plays in Albany

WKTV News

State Senator James L. Seward (R/C/I-Oneonta) welcomed the Herkimer Elementary Steel Drum Band to Albany on Tuesday.

 

“Music groups from around the state perform regularly in the Empire State Plaza concourse, but none draw a crowd like th

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Revisited -- Meet Dr. Jonathan Haas - Director of the NYU Steinhardt Percussion Program - The man who brought the Steelpan to NYU... big-time!

New York, USA - He was smitten by the steelpan instrument at the very early age of eight when he first encountered this Caribbean beauty called Pan in The Bahamas. And similar to countless others, whose hearts have been pierced by the intoxicating so

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Pan in the Park as NYU Steel plays in NY’s Washington Square Park

New York, USA - NYU Steel featuring students in the NYU Steinhardt Percussion Program gave the public a tantalizing glimpse of their steelpan music acumen when they performed in New York’s Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village yesterday afterno

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