Global - Meet Marc Brooks: Brooklyn native, panist, arranger, educator and performing artist... Creative, inquisitive, thoughtful, gifted and growing - Marc is a natural. He is a ‘sponge’ whose musical horizon is expanding by the moment.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan! Our Music Odyssey, a docudrama about the steelpan, will have its world premiere when it opens the ninth edition of the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) on Tuesday September 16.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Arts and culture are alive within the Laventille community with many cultural groups and organisations actively recruiting youth in the area to participate in cultural activities which they say ca
In many sectors, personality is everything and especially when you are going for a job interview, one of the key things that they are looking for is personality. Everyone likes to hire a "people person." However, as much as I like to have charming an
All pannists are specially invited to participate in the Virtual Steelband, a musical ensemble of pannists spanning the globe virtually. It is an opportunity for pannists to video record themselves playing a specific piece of music to a specific temp
There are many conflicting tales of how Notting Hill’s street festival began. But as this extract from a new book by Ishmahil Blagrove Jr reveals, the greatest debt is owed to one remarkable woman
WASA Sports and Cultural Club will present on September 27 2014 a steelband and soca event on the greens at their Farm Road St. Joseph Head Office. Five steelbands: Desperadoes, Renegades, Exodus, Couva Joylanders and Fonclaire. Also there will be su
New York-area steel orchestras raise the musical bar with Sonatas setting the pace
New York, USA -- Ok. No more kid gloves. It’s August in Brooklyn, New York. Basketball is over, the World Cup is over, it’s too early for football and the Yankee
The Northern Region of Pantrinbago has acknowledged/ rewarded Mr. Keith Simpson for his outstanding contribution to the development and sustainability of steelbands across the length and breadth of Trinidad & Tobago specifically unsponsored steelband
Carnival stakeholders have openly expressed their disappointment with the arrangement for major events of Grenada’s 2014 Carnival, which officially began on Saturday with the Children’s Carnival Frolic taking place at t
