It grieves me to see the truth in plain sight and people not seeing it, when they bought out peoples choice Fonclaire won it one year in 1971, those days they added up all the marks of all the judges, some time in the eighties the late 70's somebody
Can someone please explain the "logic" behind this trend of "thought"?:
The steelbands were considered by society as being hooligans playing NOISY instruments. The electronic "pans" will make the steelbands more acceptable by society, because they wi
Lord Kitchener and Pan Music Have A Thing Going
by Les Slater
Brooklyn, New York
“I made the steel band a real study. I know the runs and the notes that mean something to the sound of the band. I can hear the sound of the tenor pan.”
Long-time panist and rhythm man Rudy “Indian” Bowen died of cancer on the night of Thursday October 24, 2013. “Indian” (Rudy) was an early member of Tripoli Steelband in the early 50s, then went on to England and played with various groups there, th
Simply one of the greatest musical pieces ever written. Pan in A Minor by the late Grand Master - Lord Kitchener - has become a global test piece for the steel orchestra and panist.
The preliminary rounds of Pan is Beautiful XII are behind us, and we eagerly await the finals in the solo, single pan, ensemble and orchestra categories.
Sadly, the turnout for the preliminary rounds of competition at the Queen’
Antigua Grammar School dethrones St. Joseph Academy, 3 in a row for Villa Primary
Antigua & Barbuda- Beautiful weather was the backdrop to the 2013 Antigua & Barbuda Annual School Panorama on October 30th in the country’s capital of St. John’s. The
An interesting issue developed out of this recent NY panorama. CASYM used sampled voices from an e-pan synthesizer on stage to generate the bell tones heard in their performance. Do you think this might be a potential problem going forward? Should ba
The following are excerpts from an extensive blog by Jacob Edgar on Pan in Trinidad & Tobago. Depending on the perspective, even beginning with the very title “Panned in Trinidad” can be cause for pause – after all, ‘panned’ itself is a word which i
This is the project Jaco was working on for several years with Othello Molineaux, the steel pan player who often played with Jaco and appears on a couple of his officially released albums. I recall reading about this in Downbeat back in the early 80'
Google is a wonderful thing. I had been wondering why the Trinidad news papers were so quite after Jacob Edgar dissed BP Renegades and Trinidad pan in public and internationally in his now infamous article "Getting Panned in Trinidad". I googled his
Blurred Lines - Sony Camcorders FDR-AX1 & PMW-Z100 and much more
New York, USA - Generally WST (When Steel Talks) attends the PhotoPlus Expo (this year, literally a week after taking in the AES (Audio Engineering Society) show) to bring the visual a
This Ohio State marching Band video of "Michael Jackson Tribute" generated well over two million views in 2 days. There are many, many similarities between the marching bands (church drum and bugle corp) and the steelbands of the last century. From
New York, NY, USA - The late great Andre Tanker, (Trinidadian songwriter and musician) would have been thrilled to see and hear his song “Ben Lion” being performed at an American university thousands of miles away from his land of
