WST has made it possible for members to discuss any pan related topic they choose, some of us may have areas where we zero in on for whatever reason but the Forum is available for everyone to choose whatever they want to talk about.
It is my observat
Read more…Many Steelbands in all categories enter Panorama and if they fail to move on to the next round pack up their instruments and wait for appearance and assistance to bands payments and you will not hear from them again until next Panorama. Why can the p
Read more…With Steelbands being forced out of our Carnival and packing up their instruments after Panorama, how could we advertises (T&T) as the land of Steelband and calypso when on Carnival days 90 per cent of the music is supplied by D J and 90 per cent of
Read more…It was recently disclosed by a very authoritative source that the fuel subsidy had cost the country $31 billion in the past ten years, adding that studies show the subsidies “disproportionately benefit the rich rather than the poor.”
I am wondering h
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Four distinguished presenters will bring different perspectives on Mighty Sparrow’s phenomenal career at the symposium focused on the legendary artist, that will take place Friday evening, April 8 at Medgar Evers College, presented by the Trinidad &
New York, USA - “I believe Panorama is a blessing because we all come out for one thing and that’s to give our all and to show people what we are about. A lot of people put their all into the summer l
2006 OECS Junior Pan Competition A Success
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Gerard Mendez, chairman,
Pan Trinbago Northern Region
In response to the declaration that Trinidad and Tobago’s economy is in recession, I have read several commentators and economists put forward suggestions as to how we should deal with it. In my hu
Read more…KEITH DIAZ is going to continue to RULE PAN TRINBAGO for the next five and a half years, as long as he stays healthy. That means that NOTHING is going to CHANGE (or have a chance of changing) with the PAN CULTURE in TRINIDAD and TOBAGO until 2021. A
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the steelpan great and founding member of Harmonites Steel Orchestra, HueLoy Yip Young.
Hueloy and Robert Greenidge
Read more…Many years ago my captain said look at all the mas players outside waiting to jump up with us for last lap after playing big mas with their skimpy costumes. He then said we are not going back out for last lap. So said so done. Also members who practi
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Xalapa, Mexico - “...everything else, is played in a different way, and that makes steel pan really more interesting. Movements you make playing this instrument reminds me of practicing tai-chi... Pan
Invaders rocked Town with their Bomb tune Merry Widow Waltz, Steelbands played both their Panorama and a Bomb tune for Finals Carnival Sunday night. The Band that won Panorama and the other Band that won Bomb that night did not win the Jouvert mornin
Read more…When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Angel Harps Steel Orchestra on winning the 2016 Pan Expression competition.
What the Bands are played and Position of play ...Pan Expressions..Sunday April 3, 2016
1.Lime Comancheros ...Hello..Adelle ...
The Venice High School Music Department continues to grow this school year as Mr. David Lee, new full-time music teacher, now teaches a steel drum class. Not only is this the first time Venice High School is offering this class, bu
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New York, USA - “Well my Mom doesn’t like the sound of it but she likes the fact that I actually found something that I’m really into, and that it is something that I actually stuck to for this long..
New York, USA - “...challenges. There is so much to learn, from music theory to Kendall's offbeat phrasings. There's always something to do or something I don't know about as yet. Music is infinite.”
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At the recent celebration of “Cuba Day” hosted by the Ambassador for Cuba, His Excellency Guillermo Vasquez Moreno, at his Elm Avenue residence in Bayshore, Success Stars Pan Sounds out of Success
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New York, USA - “*Sigh and smile* Bass is BAE! I must admit when I first was introduced to steel pan, from an optical perspective the bass was the pan I did NOT want to play. It looked so “obzocky” an
New York, USA - “The music and the instrument itself, to me it's just different. Its versatility, its dynamics its effects - everything about it. It gives me a different feeling when I listen to it as
