Starlift Steel Orchestra Juniors perform during the 2023 Junior Panorama
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, W.I. - The defending champs in the country’s Junior Panorama, Starlift Steel Orchestra Juniors, successfully defended their title
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An evening featuring two Queens of Soca, Alison Hinds and Nailah Blackman, as they celebrate the strength of Caribbean women in their first appearance together on stage in NYC! One of the most popular soca singers in the world and the very first Q
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to arranger, panist and composer Amrit Samaroo.
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, W.I. - The Caribbean nation’s young steelband musicians are in the spotlight come July 2 in the annual junior Panorama. Five steel orchestras will be in competition this Sunday.
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Sometime in the late 1930′s, the government in another of its persistent and futile attempts to suppress African cultural survivals, decided that the colony would more easily be governable if drums and other traditional musical
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Lapps is one of the few women to specialize in steel pan or steel drum. She will share her passion with the Toronto Jazz Festival
Toronto, Canada - ....“For me, it’s about — in whatever work that I do — seeing how I can centre women’s
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Saint Lucia, W.I. - Pan lovers have the opportunity to support and cheer on their favorite bands in the country’s upcoming national Panorama on Sunday July 9 at 8:00 p.m.
....See the steel orchestras, and their tunes and arrangers for the 2023 comp
Read more…"You want to know why Pan have nowhere to go? For two+ years we at the World Steelpan Thrust worked hard to make this UN recognition of World Steelpan Day possible, and the President of Pan Trinbago in her speech in this article NEVER mentioned our e
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Connecticut, USA - Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut is releasing more than $7 million in state grants to several nonprofit organizations for the purposes of making facility and infrastructure upgrades at 34 cu
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High school group will play familiar hits using an orchestra of steel drums
A student orchestra will play a range of music using steel drums on Sunday, June 25 at Simms Millennium ParkWashington, USA - ....The orchestra of 35 st
Read more…Hundreds of long-term sick and mentally ill people from the Windrush generation were sent back to the Caribbean in what has been described as a "historic injustice", the BBC has found.
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Champion arrangers Amrit Samaroo and André White get the job done
Supernovas Steel Orchestra on stage at Pan in the 21st Century 2023Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Supernovas Steel Orchestra led by arranger Amrit Samaroo took the title in Pan in the 21s
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New York, USA - Etienne Charles captivated audiences once more on at The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center on June 9 and 10. Performing pieces from Carnival: The Sound of
Read more…Montreal has lost an icon! We come on Thursday June 15th 2023, to bid farewell to a fallen soldier in the Caribbean cultural army, Egbert Gaye. His sudden demise last week has left us all in a state of shock. Now getting over this stunning news, it i
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