PDN PhotoPlus Expo - Technology, The Immediacy of Now and the Steelpan Music Movement

New York, USA - Terry Joseph, the late entertainment editor for the Trinidad and Tobago national newspaper the Trinidad Express, once joked while lamenting (simultaneously impressed and irritated) that, in going through his normal routine after takin

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From Trinidad and Tobago with Love....

musical moment: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tries her hand on a tenor pan after it was presented yesterday to Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Duxton Hotel in Perth, Australia. Persad-Bissessar is in Australia for the Commonwea

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Dr. Geraldine Connor has passed

When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Geraldine Connor; she was a massive steelpan music icon and force in the performing arts. In addition, Dr. Connor was a member of the WST family.

On her WST bio she wri

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The greatest pan-side ever assembled.

The greatest pan-side ever assembled.

They represent the most gifted, talented and knowledgeable steelpan music people in the world.

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Re: WST's "The History of SteelPan Time Line"

Why isn't George "Sonny" Goddard's passing mentioned in this "time line"? Why isn't he given credit for MUCH of the info posted, which are direct quotations from his book: "Forty Years In The Steelbands - 1939 - 1979"? Should his "death" receive the

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Representing the stee;pan in everyway possible.as a panman.

My comments may be offensive to many,,but let the truth prevail,,i,m on this website When Steel Talks to express my feelings in  a possitive way with no gimmicks or running around,or bobbing and weaving,,,the subject matter  and point of importance r

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Remembering Lovely Latavia... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Tenor bass player

New York, USA - .- Miguel Reyes’s The Last Band sung by Peter D’Royce was the last Panorama piece lovely Latavia Deane got to perform with Despers USA Steel Orchestra, when the band competed in the 2010 New York Panorama. A song that makes one dance

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Govt sues 3 over G-Pan rights

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Who were the Pannist sent to represent T&T at the 1967 Expo World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.

This group was the official home based band in the T&T Pavilion and played daily. Some of the players were Knolly from the Coast Guard, Tobagonian Cesar, Roach, Briathwaite from the Police Services.This group was made up of Government employees for o

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Trinidad born bandleader Edmundo Ross has passed away

Trinidad born Latin  bandleader Edmundo Ross has passed away . He lived to be 100 years old.

He popularized the  Latin American music sound in Britain in the forties and fifties, and I remember regularly hearing his music on the radio in Trinidad in

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Talking about stolen Caribbean songs "Rum and Coca Cola" the foremost international superhit of calypso

The greater the superhit the greater the possiblity of it being copied in some form or fashion. That's why Record companies try to recapture the cost of production in its first sales of records. Then after that it begins to pay royalties to the artis

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The foremost creative guardians of calypso, pan and dance are leaving and the there is no sight of intenational status for these industries.

First Allison Hezekiah, then Pat Bishop, now Jeraldine Connor.  These are icons in the culture of T&T. They propagated for the culture to go mainstream. They got some rewards but not enough to propel the culture to international markets. They all pas

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Pan tuners fear the worst as drum dilemma worsens

Pan tuners fear the worst as drum dilemma worsens | The Trinidad Guardian

The nation's pan tuners are sounding the alarm that their livelihood is in jeopardy. Hundreds of pan tuners continue to be negatively affected by the continuing shortage of qua

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Condolences to Bede Lopez

When Steel Talks extend our condolences to Bede Lopez on the passing of his mother.

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Desperadoes fails the challenge - Steelpan Jazz Challenge preliminary results

       
The Brass Line of Republic Bank Exodus complements
the ensemble’s musical fusion of Kitchener’s “12 Bar Joan”

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Although guests commented favourably about the evening’s performances, many expressed disappointme

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"DRIVE" SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER, CLIFF MARTINEZ AND HIS USE OF THE BASS PAN

Did anyone see this interview? Notice the bass pans in the background? This percussionist/composer appreciates the unique tone that can only come from a bass pan. Oh how I long for the day when we (as a country) learn to truly value our national inst

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Accounts and experiences of the policing and governance of the Notting Hill Carnival 2011

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AES Convention Conference Program in New York - A must for the steelpan community

AES Convention Conference Program Starts Today... If you can attend.

Every steel orchestra should send a representative to the conference.

http://www.aes.org/events/131/

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The true origins of "Yellow Bird".

The of the song "Yellow Bird", is really a Haitian folk song named "Choucoune".

Here's proof of that.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/harry-belafonte-yelow-bird-the-story-of-choucoune-stolen-legacy/

Us panplayers, have always thought this to be a T&T fo

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Did Clive Bradley ever play pan and have it recorded.

Does anyone have Clive Bradley soloing on  pan?

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