New York, USA - When Hansel “Hanny” Leon passed on March 25, 2020, Brooklyn lost a beat. He was the most tireless ironman I have ever heard. Hanny played his iron, a piece of metal that’s central to Trinidad’s music, anywhere, every
Read more…Joan Rampersad - Trinidad Newsday
TT’s top five steel bands pulled out all the stops to thrill patrons at the Grand Stand, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Saturday night for Big 5 - The Concert.
Hosted by the International Steelband Founda
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago - Condolences to Sophie, the Philmore family, the extended family which includes the global pan community for the loss of one of the most down to earth human beings one could ever meet.
Ken “Professor” PhilmoreWords cannot express
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New York, U.S.A. - Only “Pro” could have accomplished this with nothing but “love” in the house.
It was supposed to be and was, a celebration of the life of one of the biggest names in pan - Ken “Professor” Philmore. But in reality it was simply a r
Read more…Remembering Master arranger Clive Bradley (RIP 26 Nov 2005)
Around this 11th anniversary of the death of Master arranger Clive Bradley,
Some images within the Interview document have been reprocessed and updated here at 2016.
The Steelbands (Pan) of
New York, USA - It was an A-plus list of men and women who have shaped the Caribbean musical landscape over the last half-century, bolstered by the great players, major management figures, and fans of the New York steelband music community - all in a
by Dalton Narine
Global - Truth be told, the history of roycrosse very well authenticates the audacity of death.
On his infantry march through life, the renaissance artist left humanity behind on February 20, 2014, shrugging off cancer that ransack
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late Pat Bishop, musical director of the Lydian Singers, will be remembered this weekend, as Republic Bank Exodus pays tribute to her at this year’s Steelband Music Festival, to be held at the
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Born in Laventille, Trinidad, Ian “Teddy” Belgrave was exposed to the steelband at a very early age. His two elder brothers, John and Rob
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago, in celebrating its 50th anniversary, paid tribute to some of Trinidad and Tobago’s outstanding arrangers, tuners and steel bands in a gala awards ceremony at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’
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Connecticut - If you had to ask the question “Where is the Love,” the answer last Monday night would be: The Palace in Stamford, where the musical community came out once more in full force to pay tribute to percussionist Ralph MacDonald, a man whose
