Happy Birthday to Dr, Brian Copeland - Steelpan Innovator & G-Pan Inventor - from When Steel Talks
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago will be the next stop for the Pan Trinbago sponsored Pan in De Countryside series. The third in the six-part pan concerts will take place on Sunday 3rd July in Parlatuvier, Tobago, from 2:00 till 8:00 p.m.
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Read more…In the latest outbreak of a two-decade-old war of attrition, the Port of Spain City Council has sought a court order for the removal of the Phase II Pan Groove steelband f
Read more…Has Trinidad and Tobago dropped the ball on the steelpan?
Conspiring To Pigeonhole Pan, And That’s Cool?
by Les Slater -
Chairman of the T & T Folk Arts Institute and former Highlanders Steel Orchestra arranger
Global - I don’t know if he remembers
What are your thoughts of the performances by several steelbands which performed during WeBeat Festival 2011?
On the Thursday night at the Pan Explosion show Rhapsody Steel Orchestra opened the show with what has become their customary fusion of PH
Read more…Originally printed at http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Sweet_Rhapsody_ends_WeBeat_in_St_James-123727169.html
By Gary CardinezTHE
Read more…Guys I am going to Notting Hill Carnival for the first time and I need the Pan people to give me some tips and resources for checking out the Pan scene: the panorama the J'Ouvert and the routes taken. Also if you know of any non-hotel accommodation
Read more…Augustine Leith Francis (also known as Pepe Francis), director of Ebony Steelband Trust and chairman of the British Association of Steelbands, has been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list to receive a MBE for services to Steel Pan Music. http:
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - They have been hailed as the “Liberators” of the steelband movement, and panmen. I’m talking about the Dixieland Steel Orchestra led by Curtis Pierre. It was only a few years ago the band, which blazed a trail in the 1960s,
T&T and China make sweet music
Trinidad & Tobago - For the second time in as many years, the Trinidad and Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble(TTCSE) teamed up with a group of musicians from Tianjin, China, to play together.
After practicing together a
Read more…WeBeat - Pan Explosion show takes place on Thursday 9th June from 8pm at the St. James Amphitheatre, Port of Spain. The show will feature four popular steelbands.
The four bands are: Reigning Panorama Champions Trinidad All Stars, Invaders, Tripoli
Read more…“Pan On A Higher Note” at Lord Kitchener Auditorium, NAPA
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Symphony Orchestra (NSSO), conducted by Jessel Murray, will present their annual formal concert which will feature the first comp
For those who don't know, when a person dedicates his or her life to public service, his or her family also pays a sacrifice. My life was affected by my dad's sacrifice, and it hurts deeply to live to see panists today who either disrespect, or are u
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