When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to champion arranger Len "Boogsie" Sharpe.
Global - So what’s New and Great at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2014 currently on at New York’s Jacob Javits Center - from a Pan Perspective?
....We could go on and on about the latest and greatest products. That would serve our readers no good. Too much
Read more…Global - Andy Narell’s new album, Oui ma Chérie!, is just the thing to gift the soul of music. Bright and splashy, it delivers a mosaic of ideas and sounds the Italians may well categorize as coloratura.
From the very first cut, Forward Home, arran
Read more…The New Visionaries Pan Foundation wish to express our condolences to the Sobers family and the band New Age Trendsetters on the loss of Deshawn Sobers (21), Trevaughan Sobers (30), and the wounding of patriarch (Grandfather) and founder of the band
Read more…Today I should be representing Petrotrin Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra at Pantrinbago's Annual General Meeting, but because of the actions of a gang of wicked self-seekers, I am debarred from attending. How did this begin? Let me tell you.
It all beg
Read more…Are we supposed to sit be quiet and play like we don't remember that an election was supposed to be held around this time some 3-4yrs ago for the World Governing Body of Pan in the Mecca?
I find it ridiculous that pan people have to wait so long to h
Read more…PHILADELPHIA – The Trinidad and Tobago women's team arrived in the United States two weeks ago without enough money for lunch. Now they're a win away from going to the Women's World Cup.
Trinidad and Tobago, known as the Soca Princesses, could be the
Read more…Which Decades would we Call The Golden Years of Panorama? The 60's - 70's - 80's or the 90's?
Read more…It’s D-day. The day either Trinidad and Tobago or Costa Rica qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time.
The teams go for an automatic qualifying spot into next year’ s World Cup in Canada, when they meet from 4.30 p.m., today in the
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Neville Jules turned 82 (91 in 2018) last week. At the Duke Street panyard, even the young players call him Cap. They see him around Hell Yard, a shrine to pan, but can’t fully fathom his weight. Founder of Trinidad All Star
Global - Diligence, professionalism and consistency could be said to be just a few of the watchwords and hallmarks which guide the life of Tobago-born 33-year old steelpan musician, arranger and performing artist Duvone Stewart.
....In this exclusiv
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In the nineteen fifties, the Cuban mambo sounds were very popular with steel bands, and were even heard on the road at Trinidad Carnival.
The Brute Force Steel Orchestra of Antigua was one of the best known and most popular steelbands in the Caribb
by Les Slater
October 29 (editor’s note this article was originally published in 1987) will mark two years since we bade farewell to Francis “Patsy” Haynes — a name of which a lot more of us should have been more keenly aware. A lot more of us shoul
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Trinidad, W.I. - Come carnival 2010 Fitz-Gerald Sparks would be 79 years young and still playing tenor pan for his beloved Starlift Steelband for Trinidad & Tobago panorama even though he has been confined to
San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fusion Steel from southern Trinidad will treat attendees to a Mini Concert and Double CD Launch at a two-hour event carded for Wednesday 29th October 2014 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Naparima Bowl in San Fernand
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Scipio “Sarge” Sargeant at Basement Recordings’ studios in an exclusive 2003 WST interview. “Sarge” has been a significant figure on the music scene, co-arranging for Despers USA during their record 6 consecutive year-wins at the New York Panorama.
Read more…Can John Public walk into any store that sells pan and purchase one and be sure that he's getting a quality instrument.
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J'Ouvert City International,Inc.(JCI)
Board of Directors: Danville Williamson-President, Yvette Rennie-Vice-President, Cynthia Green-PRO/Interim Treasurer
“Respect” to all Steelband Leaders, Panists, Masband Leaders, Mas Designers, Masquerade
Read more…Sharing with the pan community. The Music Literacy Trust celebrated its 10th Anniversary on Oct 10, 2014. The video gives a snippet of some of the work done over 2004 to 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBs76kMQbH4
Read more…Mark Loquan was the man with the vision to preserve local music and engender a new generation of musicians by founding the Music Literacy Trust. PHOTO COURTESY MUSIC LITERACY TRUST
On October 10, a group of benefactors, patrons and well wi
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