New York Carib News
New York, USA - At Last!
It may have taken them almost a year to receive their performance fees and prize money but the Caribbean steelbands have finally been paid the $52,000 owed to them by the West Indian American Day Carnival
Read more…| Bands | Order of Appearance |
| Pan Sonatas | 1 |
| Pantonic | 2 |
| Metro | 3 |
| Sesame Flyers | 4 |
| ADLIB | 5 |
| USA Eastside Symphony | 6 |
| Harmony | 7 |
| CrossFire | 8 |
| Despers USA | 9 |
| D’Radoes | 10 |
“Chinee music” was a derisive characterization some wiseacre came up with as a putdown
Global- One of the Trinidad and Tobago dailies a few days ago carried a report about pan visionary Bertie Marshall being hospitalized, supposedly because of issues
Global - “We go be dangerous, when we come back” – and the band was indeed the ‘comeback kid’ of the 2012 season. Like the lyrics of their Panorama song, When We Come Back, Grenada’s New Dimension Steel Orchestra triumphed and did just that, turning
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....I was embarrassed last weekend when a group of young people from Finland and Denmark were asked to contact me to find out where they could go in Port-of-Spain on a Friday evening to hear live p
Read more…WST do you have a representative based in Trinidad to feed the forum with important steelpan events that take place in Trinidad.
On Friday 12th August 2012 Pan Trinbago had their Steelpan Awards Ceremony the Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Dr L
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Brooklyn, New York, USA - It was another hot Summer night, and a very humid one at that - for the 2012 Pantonic Band Launch. Combine the entertaining and sultry steel band sounds of Pantonic a
Open letter to the Caribbean Community from Kadeem Alleyne
New York, USA - Greetings to all: I currently am a songwriter and producer. I’m one of the only YOUTH artists coming out of New York writing songs for the steelpan instrument, but to add seas
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Rain may have delayed the start of the 14th Annual Emancipation Street Parade on the Eastern Main Road, Laventille on Sunday but it didn’t dampen the spirit of performers or spectators.
The 4 pm s
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Hollywood, California, USA - Richmond Street Boys’ Steelband and Fire in the South tassa group from Iere High School represented T&T [Trinidad & Tobago] at the 16th Annual World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) l |
Well despite all the confusion bands are still moving ahead with music. To my knowledge this is who is playing what, arranged by whom. Note that every single band has a unique tune of choice.
Pan Sonatas - Gie Dem Tempo - Yohan Popwell
ADLIB - Baddi
Read more…Desmond Chase speaks on WIADCA and NY Steelband Panorama IssuesOpen letter to the Caribbean Community from Desmond Chase |
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New York, USA - While a large portion of the world was focused on the first day of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London - Brooklyn, New York was gearing up for its own ‘Olympic’ affair of the music kind. It’s “Steelband Music Time” and band launches ar
New Rochelle, New York, USA - The large Summer evening crowd sang, clapped, danced and rocked to the unmistakable music, sounds and rhythm of Pantonic Steel Orchestra. And when it
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Global - Robert W. Cadet, Jr. better known as Junior Cadet started playing Pan at the age of 10 in New York. The first band he played for is now known as Harmony Music Makers; he then moved on to Metro and other bands. In 1997 when his father, Robert
Global - While their senior compatriots flex their musical muscles in the second week of August, it will be the turn of Grenada's junior steel pan players one week earlier, when steel orchestras fielding multitudes of the country's younger steel pan
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Grenada's David Seals of Angel Harps Steel Orchestra.
Read more…Grenada’s Pan Ossia Junior Steel Orchestra goes with “Music Man” for 2012 Junior National Panorama
Global - Music Man by Ajamu (pictured) is the tune of choice for Pan Ossia Junior Steel Orchestra. For several weeks, it has been the task of arrange
There is a particular band that didnt pay their players, arranger or the drill master. That band name is United Sounds in Arima Dump road Trinidad. They made an agreement to pay the members and broke it. The Pantrinbago east office did nothing to hel
Read more…Congrats to 2012 Antigua/Barbuda Panorama champs Hell's Gate Steel Orchestra and arranger Khan Cordice!
