New York, USA - “....It's not noise, it's music. Bring a chair, sit down and listen; trust and believe you're gonna enjoy it. You might even jump up out of your chair and start dancing - or come back th
Indiana - Westfield High School music teacher Jeffrey McLaughlin learned how beneficial a WEF grant can be this school year. McLaughlin used his $1,000 grant to have steel pan educator David Chase visit his class. Chase is originally from Trinidad an
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Maine, USA - “...Pan and its music (and what we do with it) is at times my salvation, my sanity, and my feeling of worth. It is my joy (AND my frustrations while learning new songs). Nothing else (othe
Many years ago on Carnival days when Steelbands used to come up Charlotte and Frederick Streets one behind the other the first thing you see is the Flag Man or Woman then the banner stretch across the street with the band's Name and Logo big and bold
Read more…Here is an ACTION ITEM. During my time on this forum, three SERIOUS PAN DEVOTEES (living in Trinidad) have impressed me with their commitment and dedication to PAN.
Gerard Clarke, Bertel Gittens and Alima Garcia are LIVING THE PAN DREAM, in my books
Read more…Brunch at 107.7 with Rennie Bishop featuring UWI Levturer, Writer, Researcher and Consultant, Dr. Joanne Tull. "The Economics Of Carnival"
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This is the feature address delivered by the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education, Angela Sinaswee-Gervais at the Pan in Schools Coordinating Council Cheque Distribution Ceremony at the Mucurapo West Secon
New York, USA - “As a woman in pan I’ve always felt as though I had to prove that I could play just as well as the men around me. Especially when I started to move on to different sections such as the q
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Winners of the Governor General Award For Literary Excellence: Shakirah Bourne (In Time Of Need) and Winston Farrell (Barefoot On Ice).
Some may not know you were a competent track and field athlete, had entered two pagean
Read more…By Kimoy Leon Sing --- Trinidad Express
PAN ANIMATION: Characters in a 2D animated series called Legends of Panderica done by Brian Matthew Benoit.
‘to another level...’: Steelpan player and founder of the Benoit Academy of Steelpan, Brian Matthew
The storied career of the artist who has been the most renowned name ever in the field of calypso, Mighty Sparrow, will be examined in a symposium presented by the Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute, in collaboration with the Medgar Evers College
Read more…Every time I read a post on this forum making a suggestion about what PAN TRINBAGO should do to BRING PAN BACK ON THE ROAD FOR CARNIVAL or improve the PLIGHT OF PAN MEN -- ah have to hold meh head and bawl because man doh know what dey talkin bout at
Read more…The Calypsopera Cafe will hold auditions for the production of The Carnival is Over, a semi-ficticious musical based on the life and times of the late Aldwyn Roberts, the Lord Kitchener.
The venue for the auditions is The Opera Cafe, at the courtyard
Read more…Just had a lengthy discussion on this and thought it may be interesting to the pan community. It may have been posted on WST sometime in the past but I have not seen it.
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New York, USA - “I see Pan on the same level as all of the other traditional instruments in the world, like the piano and the guitar. I would love to have a conversation about Pan with a complete strang
United Kingdom - ““I eat, drink and sleep Pan and have now set up my own company (Panetiquette) to further promote the art form.” She lives it, dreams it - she is it...
In an exclusive interview with
Read more…In one of the most keenly contested steel band competitions in years, the Parkside Steel Orchestra beat back the challenge of its two competitors to cop the top prize in the Large Band Category in this year’s Republic B
Read more…10: Asami Nagakiya, 30, Japanese musician, strangled
Nagakiya may have not been a world renown musician but her death made headlines everywhere when she was found strangled to death in Port of Spain. This Japanese steel pan player's body was found un
By Christina Blizzard, Queen's Park Columnist
TORONTO - Nikita Austin plays piano, flute and steel pan.
She can make complex music with a special iPad app.
Those would be big achievements for any teen. What makes it so remarkable is that Nikita is de
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Global - “I simply want to create music that will touch the heart, soul and intellect of the masses. If that brings Panorama victory one day, then that would be the icing on the cake.”
In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - panist extrao
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