In an article by newsday dated April 17 2016, Prime Minister DR. Keith Rowley said Steelpan will be put to work to promote Tourism and to help earn desperately needed FOREIGN CURRENCY. He also said the uniqueness of the Steelband has not yet been pu
Read more…I will always continue to believe that there is a GLOBAL DEMAND for PAN MUSIC that is UNTAPPED. The PLAYERS are there (in abundance) but the ALBUM CONCEPT and RECORDING TECHNOLOGY and MUSIC PRODUCTION TEAM need to be hammered out with meticulous scr
Read more…Play One for Asami
On February 10, 2016 the local steelpan fraternity (and by extension our global family) were thrown into a state of shock and despair on the discovery of the lifeless body of one of our own Ms. Asami Nagakiya a Japanese national. A
Read more…Subway musicians are humming a happy tune.
BuskNY, an advocacy group for underground buskers, announced that the city has strummed up over $100,000 in settlements for the wrongful arrests of performers.
Musicians and activists gathered in the Union A
Read more…Diatonic Steelpan Institution - 6th Steel in Motion & Pan Jamboree - 16th April 2016
Activities in Siparia, Trinidad, TT
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New York, USA - Legendary American jazz standout pianist and composer Randy Weston recently held a special forum called "Symposium in the drum - from Africa to the New World" at the New School in New
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
...Hadco, Phase II partnership about ‘creating shared value’
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Just after the Carnival this year, a display advertisement appeared in a weekend newspaper. It was a congratulatory message from Hadc
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Delaware, USA - The Peace Drums Steel Band, made up of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish junior high school students from Israel, will perform from 6-8 p.m., Saturday, April 16, in the University of Delaware’s Perkins Student Center.
The evening
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Kentucky, USA - Yells, drum beats and tropical island shirts greeted audience members as they took their seats for the WKU Steelband’s concert.
On Tuesday, the band performed in its final show for the semester i
Read more…As I listen to Mr Waldron presentation at the symposium on Sparrows' career I couldn't help wondering about how far we have moved from being the land of steelband and calypso, it's as if we out-grew these elements of our culture. What is Trinidad to
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New York, USA - Insightful, engaging, entertaining and highly educational, was the symposium on the career of the incomparable Mighty Sparrow. The Trinidad and Tobago Folk
Read more…One day, we’ll tell our grandchildren how listening to music “on demand” required a trip to the store, where we picked out albums sealed too strongly in plastic, forking over $20 for each one. “That’s nice,” they’ll say, tapping the next song from a
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There have been a lot of discussion about returning the steelband to the more active role in the carnival parade , and this discussion has usually degenerated into a argument over the difficulty of achieving mobility for the Steelband , "pu
One of my biggest disagreements with pan people , even on this forum is based on different perceptions of the art-form , and its role in culture and society.
From the beginning , some has seen the steelpan and everything related to it , including the
We talk about how we invented the steelPAN but we never acknowledge that we also invented the IRON, true it is the hub of a car but it was us that made it a percussive instrument, we created a distinct sound that we could find any type of steel now,
Read more…I enjoyed reading the various profiles and feeling the joy, passion and pain emanate from the virtual pages as the stories were told. In turn, I want to encourage all the PLAYERS to think COMPOSITION and RECORDING. There is a GLOBAL DEMAND for PAN MU
Read more…In The Era of The Early Sixties to Present. Which Steelbands Man had the Biggest Impact with the Success of the Steelband That They Represented. ???
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New York, USA - “I remember going to Sesame Flyersְ’ Saturday program, I was 9 years old. Thatְ’s where I met Marc Brooks, K.J., and a few others who are still around now. I started off playing tenor
When Steel Talks extends birthday greeting to Mr. Clyde Durant, leader and founder of one New York's finest ever - Moods Pan Groove.
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New York, USA - We recently noticed a newly-constructed island or median on Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway. Right smack in the middle of where
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