Meet us at the Savannah!
Congratulations to all schools that participated in the National Schools Panorama 2019 Preliminary Round! We have our finalists and on Sunday 24th February 2019 join us at the Queen's Park Savannah to see which school will t
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz has renewed calls for a local masters degree programme in steelpan as people are learning Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument in other countries.
....He sa
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Global - Recently it was announced in the New York Daily News that the city of New York under the auspices of the DOE (Department of Education) has withdrawn its own proposal to place students from an Uncommon Kings Collegiate Charter elementary sc
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Toronto, Canada - For the past 25 years, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has enriched its music programming by giving students a taste of the Caribbean.
The TDSB has hosted its annual Panfest celebration, in which students
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Tobago, W.I. - Two Tobago schools will be receiving a donation of more steel pans tomorrow from the Tobago Multi-Cultural Unit.
Rennison ‘Pecky’ Quashie, who heads the unit, told Tobago News that Mt Gomery Primary School and the Plymouth
Read more…Global - Success Stars Pan Sounds, St. Francois Girls’ Steel Orchestra and St. Margar
et’s Boys all repeated as Trinidad & Tobago Junior National Panorama champions in the No
by Les Slater
Chairman, T & T Folk Arts Institute
A When Steel Talks Exclusive
“... Today, when successive governments and tertiary institutions are throwing millions of dollars and other resources to pr
Read more…OPPOSITION MP Donna Cox has said only one school was app
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, composer, arranger and educator - scholar Salah Wilson, shares his visions and overall thoughts on Panorama, its past, present and future...
“Competition raises the standard
To All Panists:
Re: Steel Pan Blueprint For Success (Rough Draft Edit)
Hi to all,
Recently, a pan colleague asked me what were my ideas on what needs to be done to “revive the pan movement...” (as he put it). In relation to that question, I though
Veteran steelpan music song writer and educator Mark Loquan raised the valid question about the lack of information on and visibility -any at all - of the Junior panorama in Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Loquan has consistently championed music education
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