Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- “At 5 years old, my parents took me to Renegades’ panyard and I was totally mesmerized by the level of complexity and difficulty of Dr. Jit Sukha Samaroo’s music. This compelled me to want to grow up to become a Renegade t
Global -Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events. Info on the activities for the 2024 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more, as avai
September 24 - 4:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Note: J’Ouvert segment ended at 9:00 a.m.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sunday September 24, 2023, features a J‘Ouvert celebration of ‘Steelbands on the Road’ for Republic Day in Trinidad & Tobago. Bands expected
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In a move to bring pan into the Kafe, soca icon and businessman Carl Jacobs has come up with a series of events titled Steel Plus.
Jacobs said the intention is to make the national instrument a
New York, USA - When songwriter and record producer Bob Feldman passed away Aug. 23 at the age of 83, we lost another giant of 1960s Brill Building pop.
Florida, USA - The Florida Keys have rich, feel-good, island-inspired musical roots, from Coffee Butler and Howard Livingston to Key West’s adopted son, Jimmy Buffett, who died Sept. 1
This is the VIDEO version - update from audio only posted on 3 January 2011. Hatters Steel Orchestra - Pan Talent - arr E Brooks Sr & Dr J9 Remy - WSMF - Finals 2002
Pan Talent - Test Piece - WSMF 2002 Composed in 1965 by Fitzgerald Henry [13th Jan 1
Hatters VIDEO - 9/11 - The Attacks and Aftermath of September 11th 2001 - At last
Dr. J9 found an old VHS tape and got it digitised. A plus for our history! We are thankful to an unknown video producer who put it all together. We get the 9/11 sample
For the first time in over forty years, almost since its inception, Basement Recordings/When Steel Talks, will not have captured the music of New York's finest steel orchestras for the purpose of historical documentation and musical performance accu
I have been following PAN MUSIC (STEELDRUM MUSIC) for decades. And in recent years, I have been following the INDIA AGENDA on how they were trying to build a GLOBAL INDIAN NATION integrating INDIAN EXPATS from all over the world under the INDIAN FOLD
Now, as the eternal PAN CRITIC, I have a couple disclaimers. First of all the timbre of the arrangement had a bit of an OLD TIME LAVWAY feel and the TEMPO of the song was really too slow and clean for a PANORAMA SONG. Beyond that, I have heard THE CA
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. 
- “At 5 years old, my parents took me to Renegades’ panyard and I was totally mesmerized by the level of complexity and difficulty of Dr. Jit Sukha Samaroo’s music. This compelled me to want to grow up to become a Renegade t
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