Oscar Pile story is usually left out of the history books and one of my Comrades Cecil Hinkson from WST was inquiring about him so I decided to take the initiative to open this discussion. He said, NO ONE CAN CLAIM THAT HE HAD INVENTED THE PAN
Read more…January 23, 2014: The National Carnival Commission would like to respond to Trinidad Guardian’s editorial dated January 22.
In summary, we believe there are other elements that were not sufficiently discussed and we would like to use this opportunity
Read more…New Haven Independent
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - They lifted every voice — and every violin, and every steel drum.
“You can put on your dancing shoes now, and take off your cold weather shoes,” the Steel Band’ s conductor/arranger, Kenneth Joseph
- Gene's Pan Story - History of Pan abbreviated, edited version.
Read more…Keith Diaz, President of Pan Trinbago informed the membership present at the General Meeting held on January 9th, that the NCC [National Carnival Commission] will not be providing the facilities for the 2014 Panorama Greens. Pan Trinbago will have th
Read more…I was saying to one of my comrades AL Nunes that my opinion is from 2001 to 2013 those tunes were not considered a Classic" in my Book, What do you think? If you ask people to hum most of those tunes between that time, they can't.
Read more…Let me begin by admitting that I am no more than a student of steelband and pan history. Most of what I know is from research; the rest comes from recollection (from being around my dad as a child), and personal experience from being a member of two
Read more…The Royal Gazette
Bermuda - Paul Smith is a man on a mission: to change everything you think you know about the steel pan.
The 31-year-old musician uses the steel pan to play everything from John Legend’s ‘Ordinary People’, Drake’s ‘Find Your Love’ a
Jamaica Observer
FANS and colleagues of calypso legend the Mighty Sparrow jammed Melanie's Sports Bar in Brooklyn, New York, last week for a concert in his honour.
The January 18 event was organised by Derek Parsons of WACK Radio and famed calypsoni
Read more…For the Historic record, they say that Steel pan started from the tamboo bamboo days, who was the first person that started beating on ah Dustbin or a pan when the Bamboo buss, was it Victor "Totee" Wilson, or Frederick "Mando" Wilson or "Gutter Rat"
Read more…The one who emerges as the leader of the Steelband Movement, will not be delegating from cyberspace, but as a TRUE LEADER, will be ahead of the pack, leading the charge! You see, a "leader" leads by example; a "manager" remotely delegates responsibil
Read more…Three white Americans pan people are traveling to T&T from Feb.9th to 17th, they are staying in Diego Martin and plan on getting around by public transport by themselves.
We should all be a little concern for their safety in our country, so if there
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan players from steelbands based in east Port-of-Spain are on the run as the country’s crime wave continues to escalate, says Gerard Mendez, chairman of Pan Trinbago’s northern region.
Up to la
Read more…The President of Pan Trinbago, Mr. Keith Diaz, is quoted in the print media of January 10th ,2014* as saying that “unsponsored bands have been taken care of” with respect to prize money for the World Steelband Music Festival 2013. If he said so, then
Read more…This year has seen a proliferation of pan songs like no other. Already there are well over 50 songs and the list keeps growing every day.
Every year new composers and sing
Read more…Members have you ever experience jumping up with your band on a carnival day and on seeing another band passing you went and take a chip or a jump with them ?. Well this happened to me, I was jumping up with Highlanders Steel Orchestra on Carnival
Read more…Is it too early to ring the bell signaling the end of the pan tune's dominance in panorama? I have been looking at the selections of bands so far, and I am seeing some very interesting trends building from the last 2 years. Some of the songs that ba
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