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SEVEN A SIDE PAN CONTEST....

Most steelbands has members that could arrange but never given the opportunity How about having a contest where every band could have two groups of seven players each, using two arrangers from the band go at each other. This could surely bring exposu

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HAPPY EASTER TO ALL.......

There is a Reason for this Season.

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Meet Luz Carime Santa-Coloma - New York University, New York

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

New York, New York - “I can honestly say that playing with CrossFire at the Panorama competition was the most fun I have ever had on stage...” - She knows first-hand that Pan is much more than an instrum

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Meet Doris Green - Fulbright scholar, ethnomusicologist, inventor, author, panist, educator - Brooklyn, New York

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Brooklyn, New York - The narrative of the life and times of Doris Green is in itself a compelling story and fantastic journey that needs to told, studied and chronicled. Her seminal work in a notation

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Steelband on the right note with award wins

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Young band members hit the right notes to scoop awards at recent music festivals

Tyneside, England - Three of the bands from North Tyneside Steelband (NTSB) won top awards for their talents.

At the Tynedale Music Festival, the traini

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Happy Birthday to my Friend Rudolph Walker

Today April 1st (All Fools Day) is my Good Friend Rudolph Walker Birthday, I played together with Rudolph in City Symphony and he also played with Solo Harmonites, (he has been around) Enjoy your Day Rudy..

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Meet Sparkle Demming - Brooklyn, New York

Web Posted - Saturday March 28, 2015 When Steel Talks

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

Brooklyn, New York - Thoughtful, and forward-thinking. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - musician, panist and performing artis

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North Stars gets replacement for pan destroyed by flood

 

 

St. Vincent  & The Grenadines, W.I. - North Stars Steel Orchestra in Rose Bank, North Leeward, has received 30 new steel pans to replace instruments destroyed by the December 2013 flash floods and landslides.

Nichola Evans of National Commission

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Meet Catherine Borneo - Brooklyn, New York

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Brooklyn, New York - “Women have become more vocal - the Steelpan art form is an open forum for both men and women” - With three daughters actively involved in Pan as steelpan musicians, she has a uni

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Meet Miranda Martin of Trinidad and Tobago

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Miranda has traveled the world over as a member of the legendary Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. She embodies all the characteristics of a great panist - talent, intellect, disc

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North Stars gets replacement for pan destroyed by flood

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St. Vincent & The Grenadines, W.I. - North Stars Steel Orchestra in Rose Bank, North Leeward, has received 30 new steel pans to replace instruments destroyed by the December 2013 flash floods and landslides.

Nichola Evans of Nat

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Revisited - Meet Claudie Donne - Guadeloupe, Paris, France

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Paris, France - “I just have to play pan. It makes me feel connected to my roots.” - Pan is her passion. She radiates pure unadulterated love for the steel pan culture and art form. In an exclusive in

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Blame our elite and broken institutions

Blame endemic corruption in Tri­nidad and Tobago on the country’s broken institutions and its elites, said economist and former deputy governor of the Central Bank Terrence Farrell.

Farrell’s remarks were made in a speech delivered at the Trinidad an

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Lilian Sten Nicholson

Funny how you have been at one of the Oxford balls I played for! I have enjoyed your interview as reading along I identified with your thoughts on steel pan, carnival and all.......thank you Ms Nicholson!

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It's Broken Fix it...

Cecil Hinkson my good man, Carnival without "Pan / Steel Band" is "NOT" Carnival, with out our "bamboo tamboo" and "dus bin" band's parading the streets, Carnival would not have evolved, Carnival derived / obtained from our "Black African French and

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Meet Arielle Chase - Brooklyn, New York

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Brooklyn, New York - “Panorama is like a progress report of your band. You get to observe how much you've grown as a body. From the talent of the players, the reaction of the audience, and the comment

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Marcus Miller explores his African roots on new CD - featuring Robert Greenidge

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In ref to Marcus Miller / Robert Greenidge Improvisation Discussion

Errol Cedric Lewis, NO, I do not dislike or hate U, or anyone for that matter, hate is too much of a burden for me to carry around, I just get irretated when ppl implement negative input about "pan and pan men", and I don't have anything worth steali

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The Codrington Pan Family Pave the Way at SXSW Interactive

Austin, Texas - The reviews have been glowing. Last week the Codrington Pan Family performed at the globally recognized, very influential and trendy SXSW festival. In fact, the Codrington Pan Family was named one of SXSW 2015’s 10 breakout act

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Inref; to Marcus Miller...

Cecil Hinkson; this guy Lewis, it seem's like he love's to jump into deep waters where "Shark's" are swimming, I know "Robert Greenidge" personally as he' my daughter Crystal's and my son Robert Godfather, I've also worked with Greenidge in Vegas at

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