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Pannists, PLAY this tune! Get recognized, Get MORE Gigs, Bookings! Everywhere..

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St. Vincent Junior Panorama 2023 Results - Starlift Steel Orchestra Juniors Retain Title

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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Watch Queens of Soca Live at Lincoln Center - Alison Hinds and Nailah Blackman

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Happy Birthday to Amrit Samaroo - July 2

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to arranger, panist and composer Amrit Samaroo. 

More on Amrit...

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St. Vincent Junior National Panorama 2023 Competition - Steelbands & Tunes

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.

Presented by the Carniva

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Kwame Ture on the Origin of Steel Bands

by Stokely Carmichael

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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The steel pan is more than a vacation sound to Joy Lapps — it’s about the joy of self-expression

Toronto Star

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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The Anatomy of Panorama 2023: St. Lucia National Panorama Steelband Music Competition

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

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BIG WAR BETWEEN BERTEL GITTENS AND BEVERLEY RAMSEY MOORE OVER "WORLD PAN DAY"

"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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STEELBANDS and CHILDREN

https://whensteeltalks.ning.com/forum/topics/the-role-of-the-panyard-in-child-labour?commentId=2534462%3AComment%3A639918

I believe that children are the future,
teach them well and let them lead the way…
Let’s have a conversation based on the forego

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St Luke’s Steel Band receives grant: Connecticut Governor Lamont Announces $7 Million in State Grants for Upgrades and Improvements at 34 Cultural and Historic Sites

Ct.gov

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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Seattle student orchestra coming to Courtenay for outdoor music series

Comox Valley Record

High school group will play familiar hits using an orchestra of steel drums

Washington, USA - ....The orchestra of 35 st

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Windrush: Hundreds with chronic and mental illness sent back to Caribbean

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Supernovas Steel Orchestra and Chord Masters Rule the Return of Pan in the 21st Century & Pan Down Memory Lane - Full Results

Champion arrangers Amrit Samaroo and André White get the job done

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Supernovas Steel Orchestra led by arranger Amrit Samaroo took the title in Pan in the 21s

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When Steel Talks extends Happy Birthday greetings to veteran panman, educator, scholar, arranger and performing artist Rudy 'Two Left' Smith - June 15

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The Musicology of Etienne Charles - Carnival: The Sound of a People at Jazz at Lincoln Center

by Angela Howard

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

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Respect for a Fallen Soldier - Gabriel [“Young Boy”, “Chow”] Dolabaille

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Another Fallen Soldier - Egbert Gaye

Montreal has lost an icon! We come on Thursday June 15^th 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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Watch -- Pan Down Memory Lane and Pan in the 21st Century Broadcast

 

Watch -- Pan Down Memory Lane and Pan in the 21st Century Stream 

 Thirteen single pan bands in Pan Down Memory Lane 2023, and twelve steel orchestras in Pan in the 21st Century 2023, compete Sunday June 11 for the championship in their respectiv

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Pan Down Memory Lane 2023 Preliminaries Results

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The year 2023 sees the return of competitions Pan Down Memory Lane and Pan in the 21st Century organized by Pan Trinbago, after a years-long absence. From May 19 through 25, thirty-eight single pan bands from the Eastern,

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