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The Merrymen started in Barbados in 1962 as a four man band playing traditional Barbadian Calypso and folk music. Robin Hunte (tenor guitar and electric mandolin), Stephen Fields (guitar and vocals), and E
Read more…There was a discussion on this forum recently where the global demand for steelband music was questioned (dismissed rather) by citing a fundamental (very fundamental) principle in economics.
I feel compelled to correct the record. As everyone knows,
Read more…Every season I will comment on the lack of Pan in the tunes that people are making and calling them Pan tunes. Those who can't see what's wrong here are simply disrespectful to the Pan, we have heard all the arguments and still find that if you are c
Read more…Do you know years, songs and performers? Champion Panorama tunes...
Happy Thanks giving blessings to all WST members LOCALS EX PATS PAN AND CALYPSO MUSIC LOVERS. Thanks for taking the time from your busy lives by giving and sharing your contributions on WST for us to learn more and appreciate and enjoy our ARTS a
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- Merle Albino-de Coteau - noted adjudicator, musician, historian, arr
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our condolences to the family and friends of Kenneth Hood.
Our deepest sympathies to the family, friends and residents of River Road on the passing of Kenneth "Teloti" Hood who passed away on Saturday November 21, 2015.
Telo
So much talk about PAN SONGS not using PAN!!! But if you are a PURE CALYPSO LISTENER, can you honestly say that a STEELBAND can authentically reproduce a CALYPSO?
FAR FROM IT!!!!
Read more…The recently launched OTT platform serving Caribbean culture has closed a deal with the Trinidad & Tobago soca superstar.
MAS2TV will promote and distribute worldwide Montano’s digital video library.
“We’re honoured and proud to add one of the trul
The long-awaited Limited Edition DVD recording of the International Panorama is available
Captured “live” from the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, the set comprises the twenty four (24) competing steel orchestras on three (3) discs.
T
Read more…When Steel Talks salutes George "Nugget" Joseph.
Congratulation to Antigua Pan Patriarch, George "Nugget" Joseph; 100 'Pantastic' years old. Born, November 17, 1915. Antiguan Steel Band pioneer and Captain of the Hells Gate Steel Orchestra; 1948 - 1
Read more…Mas Man, a film about artist-designer Peter Minshall, produced and directed by Dalton Narine, won the Long Beach International Film Festival prize (http://www.longbeachindie.com) for Best Feature Documentary on Oct. 11, in Long Beach, a city in Los A
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PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Steel Drum Band is taking its show on the road, headed to the group’s second appearance at the Chicago Festival of Lights Parade on Saturday, Nov. 21.
For their second trip in a row, members are coming back as a featured perf
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musical treat: Ambassador Mordehai Amihai-Bivas addresses members of Newtown Playboys while Honorary Consul Barbara Marlins-Smith and Deputy Mayor Valentine look on. —Photo: GARY CARDINEZ
Trinidad and Tobago's newest steelband Newtown Playboys Sym
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The diffi
Rupert Roopnaraine
Minister of Education for Guyana
Guyana is one of the highest ranked developing countries in the Education Index of the United Nations Human Development Report but continues to struggle with the provision of increased access to sat
Read more…I think that it is a GROUND BREAKING Pan Song.
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