“It was like magic” Beijing, China - “It was like magic,” said one of the professors at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology after the performance by the Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble on the evening of Tuesday April 29.
International Award-Winning Soca Artists Bunji Garlin, Fay Ann Lyons & The Asylum Band speak officially on withdrawing from their advertised 2014 Tobago Jazz Experience performance
Rhode Island, USA- The University of Rhode Island (URI) will present steel pan artist and composer Aaron Abrahamson Cote with his Caribbean Jazz quartet Panoramic View in a free concert on International Jazz Day 2014. The band will feature works com
Brooklyn, New York, USA- Pan and soca featured prominently at this past weekend’s NBA (National Basketball Association) playoffs action in Brooklyn between the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets. These were match-ups three and four in a ‘best of sev
How could any organization receive over two million dollars in donations and sponsorship [$2,834,565 to be exact], to run an event [stated above], and end up with a deficit [in the red] o
Global- Gerry Kangalee is the author of the seminal manuscript titled ‘Out of Pain This Culture was Born’ - which should not only be required reading for anyone involved with the steelpan instrument, but mandatory studying for all Trinidad and Toba
He was born Delyno Brown on August 5th 1981 in Charlotte Amalie, capital city of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands were colonised by the Danes and used for the sugar and slavery trades in the 17th century bef
California, USA- The annual CSULB (California State University, Long Beach) Steel Drum concert Caribbean Extravaganza gives way to a massive steel orchestra on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 p.m. The concert features the CSULB Steel Drum Orchestra during
The Pan World lost one of its iconic figures at 4:00 a.m this morning. David (QRC) was one of the "College Boys" who contributed to the greater social acceptance of pan in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1950's and beyond. He played second pan with Inva
Happy Birthday to Robert (Bullet) Thwaites, one of the original Pan am North Stars members (in their prime) who used to stand on a box to play the Bass. Bullet is still in the Steel band business, Teaching and Playing the Instrument, Happy Birthday a
North Carolina, USA - Clean and press your Hawaiian shirt and great ready for an incredible night of steel pan music when the Steely Pan Steel Band and alumni perform in a free concert Saturday, April 26.
Chicago, USA - From May 5–13, 2014, the Hamburg Committee of CSCI is sponsoring Sullivan High School’s Steel Drum Corps visit to Altona Gymnasium school in Hamburg as part of the 20th anniversary of the sister city
..“We are celebrating our 34th year with these types of celebrations, and 25 years of Pan on the Move. While everybody in Trinidad and Tobago and all over the world is trying to compete, we ought to be very proud, this is something w
I've made a program online that allows you to vote on the Panorama 2014. How does your score align with the judges? Check out CaribKaraoke's Panorama section
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Point Fortin Mayor Clyde Paul says there will be no Borough Day celebrations without T&T’s national instrument, the steelpan. Speaking on Saturday night, Paul adamantly declared that steelpan will
Here is a a more all rounded truth of the involvement of class, color and race of a people who invented the pan. It is true that the Afro Trinidadian were first given the gift of pan, as a replacement for their natural instruments-the African drums.
The phenomenon of the steelband is yet to be fully understood and appreciated and its potential as a key component of national development is largely ignored. Some still see it as a quaint musical novelty while
Beijing, China - “It was like magic,” said one of the professors at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology after the performance by the Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble on the evening of Tuesday April 29.
