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Toronto, Ontario, Canada - The biggest festival of Toronto’s summer is getting underway.
Now in its 46th year, the Caribbean Carnival Toronto celebrates the culture of Trinidad, Jamaica and neighbouring islands.
The weekend-long party k
Read more…| Placing | Played @ | Band | Selection/Performer | Arranger |
| 1st | #5 | Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra | Vivian Richards / King Short Shirt | |
| 2nd | #6 | Ebonites Steel Orchestra | Something Got A Hold On Me / Claudette Peters
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The Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, USA - Those who chance to hear sounds of the Caribbean wafting around the village, Cambridge or Zanesville should not be too surprised. Their ears are not deceiving them. There's a new band in town and it's br
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago Inc. heralds the start of Pan Month 2013 with an Interfaith Church Service and Procession in Port-of-Spain; it is the 21st edition of Pan Trinbago’s Pan Month. The Evangelical Service will be held
Community Music
Bangor, Maine, USA - ....Read about three community music groups that have people playing, dancing, and singing, all summer long.
....Flash! in the Pans
When you listen to the music of a steel drum band you’re probably imagining you
Read more…Is it possible that we produce to much music in T&T? Every year our performers come out with their CDs while in other parts of the world they do it every 3-4 years. Does it have a negative or possitive impact on the industry?
Read more…It is with very deep sadness that I announce the death of Josephus Douglas, he was the father of Martin "Dougie" Douglas. Mr. Douglas succumbed to a long period of illness in the early morning hours in North Carolina, where he lived for a very long
Read more…The Marriage Instititution
All related to Pan and definitely worth mentioning
On Sunday July 21st my wife and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary … that’s right 40 years of marriage, indeed a milestone. This 40 year marriage was based on quite
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South Africa - More than 1400 musicians from South Africa and beyond will come together in a thrilling spectacle at the International Marimba and Steelpan Festival.
Now in its second year, this entertaining family-oriented musica
Read more…There is no other panorama like New York's event. From its inception and through the Bradley years the New York steelband music competition has been about the current popular party songs for the most part. This year will be no different.
Good Day, to whom it may concern. The word "marketing" keeps coming up in the vocabulary of those who have the idea that Pan is an industry. It is not; it is an art form and a proud culture of a people. Many people have got wind of the money market
Read more…Trinidad Guardian
‘Rusty pans’ cause jaws to drop, eyes to widen
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sixty-two years ago, on July 26, 1951, a significant aspect of steelband history was recorded with an appearance by TASPO at the Summer Festival of Britain.
Jamaica Observer
Bridgetown, Barbados, (CMC) - ...He quoted a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that noted trade in creative goods and services reached close to US$600 billion despite the sluggish pace of the
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MOUNT MARINERS STEEL BAND
While we were maturing academically and spiritually, we were also, at the same time, evolving culturally. The Abbey School boasted the very first School-based steelband in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Bayelsa State, Nigeria - The Bayelsa State Junior Steelpan Orchestra (BSJSO) was featured in the opening ceremony—which took the form of a dinner party—of the recently-held 2013 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) pageant. For that July 7th openin
Read more…New York Times
You may have heard that it’s hard for a jazz musician to find respect beyond what seems like a fixed number of close followers and students. Musicians can ignore that situation, or respond to it. Etienne Charles’s new recording, “Creo
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St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. – As part of its mandate to support culture within the Tri-Island State, the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) has announced its contribution to Carnival 2013, focusing mostly on the Panorama and Steel Band Competitions a
Catholic News
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - President Carmona told the Catholic News in an exclusive interview last Wednesday that as patron of Pan Trinbago, he was “deeply concerned about ensuring that the national instrument has the international visib
New York - It appears that the future of Steelpan music at Lincoln Center may be nothing more than "Dead Man Walking." In what has to be one of the most glaring acts of total disregard and one of the ugliest insults the instrument has suffered in its
