When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Pan pioneer Curtis Pierre of Dixieland Steel Orchestra.
The acceptance of steelbands grew when middle-class, lighter-skinned, and white young people started gett
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan pioneer Curtis Pierre died on Sunday, aged 84. His daughter Giselle said he died peacefully at his Glencoe home.
His granddaughter Quelita, in a Facebook post, invited family and friends to
Read more…This thread was initiated in the Steel Band Directors group on facebook.
"Have you every faced backlash from other music teachers telling you or students that the steel pan is not a real instrument. How did you deal with it?"
While there were numerou
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Nigeria - Plans are underway for the Nigerian Navy (NN) Directorate of Music to partner foreign counterparts, the Music Society of Nigeria (MUSON) centre, and key universities to upscale its band performances. The Chief of the Naval Staf
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Elizabeth “Liz” Mannette was tired of getting lost. Setting out to visit a new panyard was always a wearisome adventure because she would often have to turn back when she could not readily find t
Now everybody know by now that I am a HARDCORE TRINI SOCA MAN (who did not come to LA TRINITY on NO BOAT) -- and I EH IN THE REGGAE THING. But on the other hand, since our MUSICAL GENIUSES are INCAPABLE of MAKING MUSIC for GLOBAL MARKETS -- ah have
Read more…NINE YEARS OF KEITH DIAZ, followed by THREE YEARS of BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE is GUARANTEED FAILURE until 2021!!!
PAN LOVERS the WORLD OVER (especially in TRINIDAD) HAVE to demand more from our PAN ADMINISTRATORS.
The PAN PRODUCT is being DEVELOPED and
Read more…From Giselle Pierre
Funeral service for the late Curtis Pierre takes place at St. Theresa’s R.C. Church, Woodbrook on Friday 13th September, 2019 at 9:00am, followed by private cremation. Funeral entrusted to C&B.
For those who can attend prayers we
Trinidad Guardian
"The T&T National Steelband Music Festival was started in 1952 as a category in the National Music Festival hosted by the T&T Music Association ... A defining year in the Festival's history came in 1959.
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"Iron man" by Lord Kitchener.
1. The tessitura of the Steel orchestra.
2. Why pans have their names.
3. Advice on strumming and player motivation.
*please correct me if I have misspoken of the historical or scientific points*
my opinions are unreun
Read more…Everyone is in agreement that sound at the 2019 NY Panorama was terrible. That's nothing new. It's always awful. The sound coming through the streaming broadcast was awful too. It doesn't sound like any NY steelband I have ever heard. Yet the broadc
Read more…Pan News -- CASYM will be starting back their steelpan classes. Please use this link to register https://forms.gle/5jwRZwopVbPHvsw68
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"The powers-that-be are so hell bent on keeping the status quo that they have hoodwinked all the other greedy bands, panists, what have you, to accept the rubbish of a November Single Pan competition, a half-December-half-January Small Band competit
That was an interesting article, you all should go down and read it.
But my problem remains singular: WHERE IS THE MUSIC?
Plenty MUSIC EDUCATION has been acquired by many of our PLAYERS (in and out of TRINIDAD), so there is no SHORTAGE of HIGHLY MUSI
Read more…So I am suspecting that she might be UNDER PRESSURE in trying to deliver this PROMISE to TOBAGO. But I always give BEVERLEY good advice. So once again I will encourage her to CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE and give a STATE OF THE PAN WORLD report after one
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