In the immediate aftermath of the ASAMI MURDER, sentiment flowed freely on this forum and utmost confidence was expressed in the ability of the TT POLICE to solve this case expediently. Anyone who expressed doubt (given the 6% murder detection rate)
Read more…CCNtv6 at Asami’s Memorial
http://www.tv6tnt.com/sevenpm-news/Asamis-Memorial-376150291.html
CCNtv6 (Updated 18 April 2016) - Asami Nagakiya, gone but not forgotten - video reporting on the Play One for Asami - Memorial Ceremony for Asami Nagakiya e
Read more…On March 15, 2016, I returned to Japan without any idea of what to expect. Were my friends going to lose trust in me as a Trinidadian? Would they ever return to Trinidad? Perhaps they will never play steelpan again and discourage others from doing so
Read more…Trinidad Newsday
PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley says steelbands will be put to work to promote tourism in this country and to help earn desperately needed foreign currency, He was speaking yesterday during the “Laventille 123- A Different Me” celebr
Read more…In an article by newsday dated April 17 2016, Prime Minister DR. Keith Rowley said Steelpan will be put to work to promote Tourism and to help earn desperately needed FOREIGN CURRENCY. He also said the uniqueness of the Steelband has not yet been pu
Read more…I will always continue to believe that there is a GLOBAL DEMAND for PAN MUSIC that is UNTAPPED. The PLAYERS are there (in abundance) but the ALBUM CONCEPT and RECORDING TECHNOLOGY and MUSIC PRODUCTION TEAM need to be hammered out with meticulous scr
Read more…Play One for Asami
On February 10, 2016 the local steelpan fraternity (and by extension our global family) were thrown into a state of shock and despair on the discovery of the lifeless body of one of our own Ms. Asami Nagakiya a Japanese national. A
Read more…Subway musicians are humming a happy tune.
BuskNY, an advocacy group for underground buskers, announced that the city has strummed up over $100,000 in settlements for the wrongful arrests of performers.
Musicians and activists gathered in the Union A
Read more…Len "Boogsie" Sharpe on stage for Panorama 2016 Finals
Ok when I first heard about Asami tears came to my eyes. Here is someone who has embraced our culture and is helping to spread it to the world. This is not good for Trinidad and Tobago and Japa
Read more…Diatonic Steelpan Institution - 6th Steel in Motion & Pan Jamboree - 16th April 2016
Activities in Siparia, Trinidad, TT
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New York, USA - Legendary American jazz standout pianist and composer Randy Weston recently held a special forum called "Symposium in the drum - from Africa to the New World" at the New School in New
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
...Hadco, Phase II partnership about ‘creating shared value’
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Just after the Carnival this year, a display advertisement appeared in a weekend newspaper. It was a congratulatory message from Hadc
UDaily
Delaware, USA - The Peace Drums Steel Band, made up of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish junior high school students from Israel, will perform from 6-8 p.m., Saturday, April 16, in the University of Delaware’s Perkins Student Center.
The evening
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Kentucky, USA - Yells, drum beats and tropical island shirts greeted audience members as they took their seats for the WKU Steelband’s concert.
On Tuesday, the band performed in its final show for the semester i
Read more…As I listen to Mr Waldron presentation at the symposium on Sparrows' career I couldn't help wondering about how far we have moved from being the land of steelband and calypso, it's as if we out-grew these elements of our culture. What is Trinidad to
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New York, USA - Insightful, engaging, entertaining and highly educational, was the symposium on the career of the incomparable Mighty Sparrow. The Trinidad and Tobago Folk
Read more…One day, we’ll tell our grandchildren how listening to music “on demand” required a trip to the store, where we picked out albums sealed too strongly in plastic, forking over $20 for each one. “That’s nice,” they’ll say, tapping the next song from a
Cnc3 News - Trinidad
Local musical legend, Joey “Pal” Lewis has died at the age of 78.
CNC3 has confirmed that Lewis passed away last night although the exact ill
Ok folks.
There have been a lot of discussion about returning the steelband to the more active role in the carnival parade , and this discussion has usually degenerated into a argument over the difficulty of achieving mobility for the Steelband , "pu
One of my biggest disagreements with pan people , even on this forum is based on different perceptions of the art-form , and its role in culture and society.
From the beginning , some has seen the steelpan and everything related to it , including the
