On Thursday night, the Iowa Steel Bands will perform a mixture of traditional and pop music on bowl-shaped, or steel, drums.
Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the Iowa Steel Bands will perform a selection of percussive steel drum pieces in Voxman.
“We will ha
Read more…SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS disappeared under NINE YEARS of DIAZ and FORTEAU and JOSEPH and SHEPPARD RULE!!!
And a report was handed over to DOLLY and BEVERLEY.
Why can't they release it so that the EXPLOITED PAN PLAYERS can see how the PANORAMA MONEY IS S
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Wisconsin, USA - “With reference to using the steelpan instrument in working with those challenged by autism spectrum disorder and ADHD: “The steel drum is my number one choice of instrument with workin
MAKE ALL OUR PAN ASSETS USEFUL!
That VIBE from the music ... a treasure trove for a MODERN COMPOSITION!!!
Read more…Esquire Magazine
The Childish Gambino film co-stars Rihanna and features a new "This is America" remix—and it
After mystery-steeped months of speculation, Donald Glover's film Guava Island debuted on Amazon Prime Saturday, where it will stream free
Read more…Almost SIX MONTHS in office and neither THE PRESIDENT nor PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER has UTTERED ONE WORD to the PAN PUBLIC about any developments
They have held over ONE HUNDRED MEETINGS making plans to make the organization FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT bu
Read more…ONE of New York’s most respected pan arrangers/composers/performers, Kendall Williams, is set to replace Duvone Stewart as the arranger for medium band champions Pan Elders.
In an interview from New York on Tuesday, Williams, one of the “three amigos
Read more…Marcus: Based on the judges results it just seem like LIAM DOH KNOW NOTHING about PAN MUSIC and CALYPSO and ARRANGING so they have to send him back to SCHOOL to learn about DE TING.
8TH PLACE?????
Maybe is not Liam's fault!!! Maybe the SILVER STARS P
Read more…The New Today
With the annual Spicemas festival only four months away, government is making a last minute desperate effort to bring an end to a bitter internal feuding within the Grenada Steelbands Association (GSBA).
Jason Skeete – walked out of the
Trinidad Express April 13, 2019
Steve Taylor, electronic xylophone player, said the concert is one of the first of its kind that will help to bring an appreciation and awareness of Trinidad and Tobago drum culture. Taylor believes that appreciation f
Read more…This first passage comes from a book written by Mark Cozart Riggio (Carnival Culture in Action -- The Trinidad Experience):
OUT OF OIL THERE CAME THE DRUM
In 1945 the voice, still muted, was in the SMALL PANS, Neville Jules:
Ellie and I were in a com
Read more…He is never going to beat DUVONE STEWART in that MEDIUM BAND CATEGORY (not in Trinidad 2020 - 2030). So why risk his reputation and go get fed to LOCAL WOLF JUDGES.
I really don't understand his THINKING!!!
bugs said something once that I will long r
Read more…After its invention in 1947 the STEELPAN gets featured for the FIRST TIME in 1967 in a POPULAR GROUP -- Just a few notes. But featured, nonetheless.
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “‘Pan before Band.’ For me that’s a slogan used after the Panorama competition is over (hahahaha). As panists we all want our bands to win. The good thing however is regardless
Global - He is a steelpan music icon, respected, award-wining, and a global ambassador of the steelpan art form. In addition, he is a founding member of the champion Harmonites Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago. When Steel Talks
WTH! Fake News?
Nope, it’s true.
So you thought that the Panorama Drama ended on February 22nd when Justice Kevin Ramcharan granted an injunction that cleared the way for Exodus to change their tune of choice for the Finals of the 2019 Panorama comp
