Do we have anybody on this Site that can relate to the Steelband Clash with Invaders and Tokyo (I think it was 1950) EG: like where you were at the time, what you saw? or what you hear from your Parents or your friends, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Read more…When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to master Pan Tuner extraordinaire - the great Bertram “Birch” Kelman.
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Can Anyone Say for Sure Who is the First Man to Bring and Beat an Iron/ Car Wheel Hub into a Steel band to be used as Rhythm, which is still used Today?
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Global - Mrs. Daisy James-McClean is an award-winning female steelpan musician, whose recognized list of firsts and accomplishments within the steelband movement are both significant and staggering. She is an original (Ms. McClean started playing ove
J'Ouvert City International,Inc.(JCI)
Board of Directors: Danville Williamson-President, Yvette Rennie-Vice-President, Cynthia Green-PRO/Interim Treasurer
“Respect” to all Steelband Leaders, Panists, Masband Leaders, Mas Designers, Masquerade
Read more…4.7 MILLION A YEAR TO LEARN THE COPYRIGHT RULES
In responding to questions from the opposition, the Minister of Finance of Trinidad and Tobago has stated that the G-pan, the patent for which is owned by the government of TnT, is a "continuous charge
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Glenroy Joseph
Read more…In 1959 when Desperadoes played "Noah"s Ark" they had 1500 to 2000 masqueraders and their pans rolled on the ground. In 2014 with all the technology available they they have less than 100, the message in this picture is crystal clear, what they are d
Read more…Did San Juan All Stars played "Return of Battle Cry" in 1960 or 1962? And did Despers sent a warning to San Juan All Stars not to pass the flyover, but they continued to enter Port of Spain, and a Police contingent followed San Juan All Stars all th
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Brooklyn, New York - It seems like it was only yesterday when WST (When Steel Talks) first saw Jonathan Scales on a double second pan perform live for the first time at the Shine in Harlem. The event was back in the year 2009. In fact it was early th
remember the San Juan AllStars/Despers clash. It was outside the hospital on Charlotte Street. From what I remember AllStars ran through Mac Williams and Casablanca and then came to Despers. When they tried to run through Despers "dey bounce dey h
Read more…San Juan All Stars/Despers Clash was in 1959, What Mas did San Juan All Stars played? I said that they played "Battle Cry" some say that they played "To Hell and Back",
Both Movies were produced in 1955.
Read more…Congrats Ian Franklin on your 26th Wedding Anniversary today and I wish you and your Wife Joan many more,
Read more…On behalf of the New York pan family, I offer our condolences to Wendy Jones Bandleader of Pan Fantasy Steel Orchestra Toronto Canada, on the loss of her brother, we also offer condolences to the Pan Fantasy family.
May his eternal sprit rest in pea
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Oklahoma, USA - Sante Fe South Charter Schools seeks a truck sponsor for its steel drum band. The band, Pandemic, is made up of the high school’s top students.
Santa Fe South High School is alive with the sound of percussion music.
Ev
Can anyone tell me if anything is available from iTunes?
Calypso, Steelbands, Soca (ole school or modern), or just home grown pop. NOT REGGAE.
Info greatly appreciated.
Randi
Read more…Trinidad &Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Former Calypso monarch Dr Leroy Calliste (Black Stalin) had a stroke on Sunday night but is improving quickly and could be discharged today or tomorrow. “He is stable. He is speaking. He had his lu
Read more…When Steel Talks extend birthday greeting to educator, arranger and panist Eric Mc Allister of Merrytones Steel Orchestra.
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Brooklyn, New York - If you think that a steelband meeting of any sort, can be heated and disagreeable, think again. Even the most contentious steelband meeting pales in comparison to what When Steel Talks (WST) witnessed last evening. Emotions ran h
I've been monitoring the post by many of the young New York pan players on facebook. It is amazing that one organization can do so much to destroy the morale of our youth. If WIADCA's sponsors ever see these post they will never get another cent from
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