So much talk about PAN SONGS not using PAN!!! But if you are a PURE CALYPSO LISTENER, can you honestly say that a STEELBAND can authentically reproduce a CALYPSO?
FAR FROM IT!!!!
Read more…The recently launched OTT platform serving Caribbean culture has closed a deal with the Trinidad & Tobago soca superstar.
MAS2TV will promote and distribute worldwide Montano’s digital video library.
“We’re honoured and proud to add one of the trul
The long-awaited Limited Edition DVD recording of the International Panorama is available
Captured “live” from the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, the set comprises the twenty four (24) competing steel orchestras on three (3) discs.
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Read more…When Steel Talks salutes George "Nugget" Joseph.
Congratulation to Antigua Pan Patriarch, George "Nugget" Joseph; 100 'Pantastic' years old. Born, November 17, 1915. Antiguan Steel Band pioneer and Captain of the Hells Gate Steel Orchestra; 1948 - 1
Read more…Mas Man, a film about artist-designer Peter Minshall, produced and directed by Dalton Narine, won the Long Beach International Film Festival prize (http://www.longbeachindie.com) for Best Feature Documentary on Oct. 11, in Long Beach, a city in Los A
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PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Steel Drum Band is taking its show on the road, headed to the group’s second appearance at the Chicago Festival of Lights Parade on Saturday, Nov. 21.
For their second trip in a row, members are coming back as a featured perf
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musical treat: Ambassador Mordehai Amihai-Bivas addresses members of Newtown Playboys while Honorary Consul Barbara Marlins-Smith and Deputy Mayor Valentine look on. —Photo: GARY CARDINEZ
Trinidad and Tobago's newest steelband Newtown Playboys Sym
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Rupert Roopnaraine
Minister of Education for Guyana
Guyana is one of the highest ranked developing countries in the Education Index of the United Nations Human Development Report but continues to struggle with the provision of increased access to sat
Read more…I think that it is a GROUND BREAKING Pan Song.
Read more…Some bands have made changes with arrangers for the 2016 year, what are your thoughts on Katzenjammers changing arrangers, I thought Leon did a good job with the band this year. I am not sure on why the change.
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The International Soca Monarch (ISM) is evolving! For the 2016, there will be no live television broadcast, no live pay-per-view and no online streaming of the ISM final. Instead, the show wil
Pan Trinbago's "Pan in D Country Side" 2015 was fantastic. All participants and patrons agreed that it was one of the best. Maybe it was because of the nature of the event. In this, the last such event for 2015, a number of Steelbands volunteered to
Read more…I submitted two songs to WST for Panorama 2016. The first song, " The Struggle My Name is Pan," took over a month and two submissions of the song before it was put up. Then it was placed in the enclave and never actually added to the main page so t
Read more…Since the Death of Master Clive Bradley Ten Years ago This Month. Despers has Regressed From being the Greatest Steelband of the 2oth Century to being just an Ordinary Steelband, who cant even Qualify for the First ever International Panorama. Its Sa
Read more…by Robbie Joseph
David ijaduola is an all-round musician from being a performer to an arranger and composer. His musical interest started at the tender age of 3 when he began to play his mother’s pots and pans using spoons as his sticks to imitate dr
TRINI TO THE BONE
Read more…Between Sponsors and Government HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars have been poured into the STEELBAND MOVEMENT over the last 65 years. (Not to mention the millions spent by foreign governments flying these steelbands all around the world.) Yet, today,
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