When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to panist, composer, champion arranger and performing artist Dr. Len “Boogsie” Sharpe.
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Grenadian talent on showcase in New York
New York, USA - A group of veteran Grenadian panists will showcase their talent later this month at a Grenada event in Brooklyn, New York.
It’s a dinner, dance and awards’ ceremony that will
Read more…We are all grateful to the companies that sponsor our steelbands in the mecca, heaven knows they are needed, but there is a negative side to sponsorship, being that the bands grow to depend on them for most things thus hindering their ability grow.
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Read more…Pan needs a S-T-A-R in North America. One who could fill nightclubs and concert halls from the mountains to the prairies and from sea to shining sea. We have thousands of players in bands -- and on the KFC circuit (one piece, two piece, three piec
Read more…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
Read more…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
Read more…The First “Pan In School” in the world (Historically)
“Aldwin Albino speaks on
Hello Philbert Atteng : I recently saw your piece about the steelband at Calvary R.C. School, and I'm greatful for your imput; however there are some errors in your repo
Read more…Trinidad Guardian - By Kim Boodram
THE Percussive Harmonic Instrument (PHI) pan will now have a home with The University of the West Indies (UWI) in St Augustine, ending a battle for control of the patent and profits between its creators and the Stat
Read more…It grieves me to see the truth in plain sight and people not seeing it, when they bought out peoples choice Fonclaire won it one year in 1971, those days they added up all the marks of all the judges, some time in the eighties the late 70's somebody
Read more…Simply one of the greatest musical pieces ever written. Pan in A Minor by the late Grand Master - Lord Kitchener - has become a global test piece for the steel orchestra and panist.
Just Listen 
Trinidad - ALL THE clichés apply on this Panorama evening.
What’s new, though, is that Panorama has begat a couple of sidebar stories that now overshadow the very tenor of the contest.
By By Gary Cardinez
The preliminary rounds of Pan is Beautiful XII are behind us, and we eagerly await the finals in the solo, single pan, ensemble and orchestra categories.
Sadly, the turnout for the preliminary rounds of competition at the Queen’
Antigua & Barbuda - Beautiful weather was the backdrop to the 2013 Antigua & Barbuda Annual School Panorama on October 30th in the country’s capital of St. John’s. The
Pan is Beautiful Solo and Ensemble Prelims - Audio Recordings
Read more…Trini born David De Castro and his contribution to Pan and Calypso
Dave De Castro and his Fabulous Calypso Steel Bandits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LBuWgTIuwE
Dave De Castro and his Fabulous Calypso Steel Bandits
Read more…The following are excerpts from an extensive blog by Jacob Edgar on Pan in Trinidad & Tobago. Depending on the perspective, even beginning with the very title “Panned in Trinidad” can be cause for pause – after all, ‘panned’ itself is a word which i
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This is the project Jaco was working on for several years with Othello Molineaux, the steel pan player who often played with Jaco and appears on a couple of his officially released albums. I recall reading about this in Downbeat back in the early 80'
Google is a wonderful thing. I had been wondering why the Trinidad news papers were so quite after Jacob Edgar dissed BP Renegades and Trinidad pan in public and internationally in his now infamous article "Getting Panned in Trinidad". I googled his
Read more…Blurred Lines - Sony Camcorders FDR-AX1 & PMW-Z100 and much more
New York, USA - Generally WST (When Steel Talks) attends the PhotoPlus Expo (this year, literally a week after taking in the AES (Audio Engineering Society) show) to bring the visual a
This Ohio State marching Band video of "Michael Jackson Tribute" generated well over two million views in 2 days. There are many, many similarities between the marching bands (church drum and bugle corp) and the steelbands of the last century. From
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