Global - Increasingly over the last several weeks, When Steel Talks has noticed that several of the national steelband Panoramas in the Caribbean have adopted a practice of announcing the number of “pieces of instruments” in the performing steel orch
Read more…This morning Friday 22nd August I'll be interviewed by Etienne A. Gibbs on his radio show. We'll be talking steelpan in all forms (from tuners to arrangers to steelbands). We'll be talking about the E-Pan, the World's 1st Electronic Steelpan. From 9:
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Pan Fantasy Steel Orchestra, Toronto's Panorama Champion 2014 will again appearing in New York's Panorama.
They will be practicing @ 2834 Church Ave. between Nostrand and Lloyd, that is just a few doors after McDonald
Read more…BBQ BBQ BBQ!!! Utopia Fundraiser for J'ouvert @ 816 East 49th street Bklyn NY 11203 backyard
BBQ $12... drinks on sale...ole talk and lime free of charge so pass through on the way to your next event... hope to see you Saturday Aug 23rd 2014 3pm - 8p
Read more…The medium band category in panorama has the potential to buss loose if it is promoted. Pan people are tired of the same old same old with the large bands, the chromatic is played out, we would like to hear less notes and more music but the old boys
Read more…In another discussion a person said we should used the term Musician rather than Player, can we call everyone that plays in a steelband a Musician or is there a difference?
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago’s President Keith Diaz has accepted invitations to visit London and Brisbane, Australia.
The first invitation issued by the British Association of Steelbands (BAS) from 16th to 28th August 2014 coincides with t
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The pan culture lost one of its most passionate boosters with the passing in Trinidad Tuesday afternoon, August 19, of Ainsley Mark, head of the QRC Foundation which for two decades has annually presented the Trinidad and
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sixty-six individuals and steel orchestras will receive awards in thirteen categories when Pan Trinbago Inc. hosts its Annual Prize Distribution & Awards Function. The event, which will be staged for the first time in South
Read more…Hello Friends, Do anyone have a recording of Antillean all stars playing bassman Arranged by Henry "Bendix" Cumberbatch. I think its 1974. I am trying to find this for a very good friend of mine, this was the Tune he heard that inspired him to start
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago continues to celebrate Pan Month with a host of activities. Starting with the discussion, ”Pan, Progress & Patent” on Tuesday 19th August at the AV Room, NALIS, Abercromby Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad - the s
Read more…Brent & Kilburn Times
London, England, U.K. - Brent youngsters showed that they do have talent after taking part in a grand performance showcasing the very best of classical music–all played on steel drums.
Members of the St Michaels and All Angels
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late veteran calypsonian Garfield Blackman (Ras Shorty I) is renowned for the classic “Watch Out My Children”—a lament against the evils of substance abuse.
Last Friday evening, a
Read more…The Voice
London, England, U.K. - ....Rooted in African traditions such as the Tamboo Bamboo bands, the music of the dented metal drums is said to have begun in Laventille, a poor suburb just outside Trinidad’s capital Port of Spain, where UK pan ar
......How do we strengthen the relationship of a sponsor it's band and the community it resides in? need positive reason why they are needed, and how do we encourage more to participate....(urgent) thank you.....
Read more…Young Steel Pan Players Vie for Chance to Win Prizes and Bragging Rights at First Annual Competition
Brooklyn, New York, USA - The Carlos Lezama Archives and Caribbean Cultural Center (CLACC-C) will host its 1st annual PanFest, a junior steel pan c
D’Original Woodbrook Modernaires Steel Orchestra, third prize winners of the Single Pan category in the Steelband Music Festival, ”Pan Is Beautiful XII”, which was held in October 2013, is appalled at the recent plea by Keith Diaz and his group, for
Read more…Sonatas Steel Orchestra Two for 2 - But Very Different Results
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Many years from now, the story will be retold about the night with the legendary Neville Jules (and a dancing Mr. Jules at that!)—captain emeritus of the also-l
Members you have all heard this saying before ,one hit wonders ,Musical Groups that have made it to the top with one big hit and never came close to making another one . In Panorama we have Steel Orchestras with one victory(HATTERS,NUTONES) and o
Read more…Andre Greenidge, David “Peck” Edwards - Winning Arrangers
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - It was double the joy early Sunday morning when defending champs New Dimension Steel Orchestra and challengers Commancheros Steel Orchestra were named joint winne
