Re-Percussions: Our African Odyssey, award-winning Trinidadian film-maker Kim Johnson’s contribution to this year’s Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in Toronto, is a documentary
Read more…To begin with, somebody should call up KENNY PHILLIPS or VANESSA HEADLEY and ask them to post or transcribe the BOOGSIE INTERVIEW from YESTERDAY. (Now I could call up KENNY PHILLIPS myself and probably get it -- but something tells me that I may nee
Read more…First of all, as the WISE MR. LAWFORD DUPRES pointed out: It is more of a COLLATING PROJECT than a BOOK WRITING PROJECT. Although I do intend to present to BUGS and MERRYTONESTOTHEBONE and WHENSTEELTALKS and AQUIL ARRINDELL and PAN TRINBAGO and MR. D
Read more…... and that is a REAL SHAME because CALIFORNIA has EXPOSED more people to PAN MUSIC than any other STATE in AMERICA or any COUNTRY in the REST OF THE WORLD.
ROBERT GREENIDGE alone could BEAT NEW YORK and the rest of the ENTIRE UNITED STATES. And don
Read more…So far we have YOUR THREE and ONE from WHEN STEEL TALKS. I am adding SALAH WILSON and Robert Greenidge and Lawford Dupres and Ken Lawrence and Courtney Leiba!!!. Merrytonestothebone added Rudy Smith and Othello Molineaux and Sonny Blacks and Salmon C
Read more…The Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) government has apparently taken over the running of the Grenada Steelband Association (GSA) following months of bickering between two warring factions.
THE NEW TODAY has obtained correspondence in which
Liam Teague & Yuko Asada, directors
Marche Slave by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, adapt. Liam Teague*
Summer Song by Clifford Alexis
+Savannah Grass by Kees Dieffenthaller/Jelani “Pops” Shaw, arr. Charlton Alfonso
+Algorhythm by Robert
Another When Steel Talks Review
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Author: Caitlyn Kamminga
UTT APA is delighted to announce that Stefon West, pan student of Dr. Mia Gormandy-Benjamin, has just accepted a position to teach in Haifa, Israel as a part of the Peace Drums Project. Peace Drums is a unique interfaith ini
Read more…Earl: Yuh tell meh WOMAN IS BOSS and how BEVERLEY GO DO THIS and BEVERLEY GO DO THAT. And with all the TRANSPARENCY she PROMISE -- every meeting she have she commanding the SHEEP to keep ALL PAN TRINBAGO DISCUSSIONS SECRET.
After all the promises of
Read more…"It has been 25 years since I have been teaching Music with the Toronto Board Of Education using the Steelpan as the main instrument. I teach music during the day as a subject. It’s very unfortunate that Trinidad and Tobago is still using Steelpan as
Read more…The New Today
The embattled President of the Grenada Steelband Association, Jason Skeete has resigned from the body.
Skeete tendered his letter of resignation Tuesday against the backdrop of moves by government to set up an Interim body to run the af
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - "Every instrument develops its own unique approach to how it should be taught, the violin and the electric guitar, and so too does every style of music, whether it’s classical or rock," explains pan historian Kim Johnson as
BEVERLEY have the WHOLE PAN COMMUNITY under VOWS OF SILENCE (The MAFIA OMERTA CODE) about what is going on in the PAN TRINBAGO MEETINGS.
And this is a WOMAN who PROMISED TRANSPARENCY!!!
To make matters worse, the PAN PLAYERS are acting like SHEEP goi
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Bahamas, W.I. - In 1957, Dudley Smith, who had made a name for himself in Trinidad as a Band Leader and Tenor Pan soloist, was brought to the Bahamas by Mrs. Toothe, the widowed owner of the up-scale “Buena Vista Hotel and Restaurant,” located at De
They started making their steel pans from oil drums collected from the Lago Oil Refinery. The barrels were formed by hammering the bottoms with a sledge hammer until they had the right shape and tone.
The group increasingly started to play variants
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New York, USA - “When I was a child I participated in an African dance program. Also, on my father’s side of the family, they would have prayers and include drums. I grew to love drums and the sounds of
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eight children from the band P’tit Pan of Nantes, France, flew into TT last Tuesday to learn the rudiments of pan, and also to familiarise themselves with the culture of this country.
They were
Read more…The T & T Govt' need to make Carnival Monday "Steelband day" so we can save the Steelbands in Trinidad & Tobago. Make it a Law that there will be no Big Boom Boxes/ Speakers on those Big Trucks on that day, and the Police need to enforce the Law. The
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