Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard after hearing her 2019 hit "So Long" being played by the iconic steel orchestra.
The steelband movement has lost yet another icon with the passing of Dr. Clifford Alexis.
Mrs. Beverley Ramsey-Moore, President of Pan Trinbago, has expressed her deepest condolences to his immediate family and that of the steelpan fraternity. Mrs. R
Read more…I see most of the large bands are playing a soca tune for Panorama 2019, So what has happen to the traditional Pan tunes we used to get from Sparrow, Kitch, Shadow, Melody, de fosto, Rudder. etc etc, Are there no one to take their place to compose an
Read more…Winston Vallie says:
Yesterday I heard the chairman of the NCC making statements on the radio and was shocked. This man is saying pantrinbago owes the government and so let them pay the players because the government has no intention of paying play
Read more…Last Friday, reigning Soca Monarch Aaron “Voice” St Louis announced he will not be defending his crown. He said in a release that he had new goals now, and “competing is not one of them.” He added that his biggest goal now was “to do my part to have
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This Spring, we are thrilled to bring you a new Steel (Pan) Band Percussion Ensemble for high school and middle school students, led by Academy percussion faculty and Mason School of Music Graduate candidate David Singhaus. Repertoire will focus on
Read more…Martin Daly - republished with, the expressed permission of: the Author
This column is no longer a voice in the wilderness. I now have powerful company on the public record. In the Newsday of 15 January this year, Mayor of San Fernando, Junia Regrel
Read more…Look!!! Dem Yankees having a BIG PAN CONFERENCE in Miami (in early March) and everybody will be talking to everybody else and building consensus to MAKE AMERICA the global leader in PAN PROGRESS. Even LIAM TEAGUE will be in the conference.
So why can
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Yvette Rennie, president of J'Ouvert City International on the passing of her son, Kwame. Please accept our sympathy.
Trinidad Newsday
Don Carrington, of Caziq online music streaming service, at Desperadoes mas band launch on Friday. PHOTO BY GARY CARDINEZ
Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is set to take pan into the realm of online music streaming via Caziq.
This was re
Read more…The INTERNATIONAL STEELBAND FOUNDATION has made one thing perfectly clear: It has no intention of competing with Pan Trinbago, which primarily oversees PANORAMA.
The ISF is looking at developing the commercial aspects of the steel pan as an industry.
Read more…The art, the dance, the Pan - When will they reappear?
by Dalton Narine
Global - A Trojan horse has invaded our annual ritual, just like that.
I had planned on writing a piece about Pan and the instrument’s supposed loneliness in the Mas (The Ca
Read more…Newsday January 25, 2019
He said players were not a separate and independent entity and were NOT the most important part of the steelband but there were justifiable reasons the players must be incentivised through the steelbands.
“Once th
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Pan tuner Andy Neils works on the phonic pan, recording the notes on a computer, at Arima All Stars panyard in Malabar. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE
FEELING trapped by the limited range of the middle section of the single pan ensemble,
Read more…Trinidad Guardian 1/26/2019
"According to Keith Simpson, manager of St James Tripolians Steel Orchestra, most of the 163 bands going up for Panorama are unsponsored, and just about 20 of them have corporate sponsors
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