Chantal Esdelle, left, with Douglas Redon on pan, will both perform at the launch of Trini Riddims Cultural Tours tourism drive on June 18 at Desperadoes Sreelband panyard, Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Venezuelan migrant boys and girls in TT will receive steelpan classes, says new Venezuelan ambassador Álvaro Sánchez Cordero (pictured).
This plan is part of the education and support programme
Saturday, June 11 was etched on my calendar since BRIC released their Celebrate Brooklyn schedule in late April. Pan was again taking center stage at the borough's biggest and best summer festival. Adding to the anticipation, this s
“Really good to see this performance, as it was unique! Shame the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) saw fit not to broadcast it live on TV to the world as part of the Platinum Jubilee Parade. (Instead, they chose to
Global - From twenty-four, to twenty, to ten steelpan final night artists. And then there was one. PanoGrama 2022 champion Mathieu Borgne from France copped first place, ultimately besting his twenty-three co-competitors. Borgne affor
"Formed and wrote charts for"Calliope's Children", one of the first High School steel bands in the US. Introduced Ellie to the strobe tuner and worked exstensively with him on harmonic and overtone concepts. Toured w
Steel Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee Concert
What should have been one of the greatest moments in the history of the steelpan instrument in the United Kingdom, is now turning into a less than stellar occurrence - as BBC allegedly
“COME on! And let it rock!” shouted James Leyden, a music teacher at the Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, trying to get the attention of the 16 blue‐jeaned and sneakered teen‐age steel drummers who were arr
Global - The final ten steelpan musicians who moved forward from the 2022 Panograma semi-finals have their performances as finalists streamed at 8:00 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Time) on June 12.
Speyside High Principal Alson Sylvester, left, and Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, centre, look on as Iran ‘Duce’ Anthony plays a note on one of the pans donated to the school last Friday
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - The Panorama competition has been reinstated to the 2022 schedule of Carnival events after news broke on the weekend that the staple event had been axed from this summer’s line-
Alexander Evans (Belize) and Shaquille Forbes (Trinidad & Tobago)
Belize City, Belize - Just five countries from a starting total of ten will be represented in the final round of the 2022 PanoGrama steelpan competition, and Belize is amo
Emmanuel Joseph - PanoGrama 2022 semi-final performance
Global - From twenty-four steelpanists in the preliminaries, PanoGrama 2022 has narrowed to just ten representing five countries - USA, France, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, and Grenada – for the
TWO-DECADE CAREER: Ace panist Johann Chuckaree
