Guests collect £1,800 for hospice in memory of four-year-old Ellie Gordon
Surrey, England, U.K. - A concert held in memory of a four-year-old girl who died earlier this year smashed its fundraising target.
The handbell team at St Lawrence Church i
Read more…The Trinidad & Tobago National Music Festival – Pan Is Beautiful XII will be held later this year under the banner “Respect The Steelpan… Play It With Pride”.
Produced by Pan Trinbago Inc., the Festival is divided into four (4) categories ie Soloists
Hi , I don't know if everyone out there knows this that's why I am sharing this . Apple has an app called the digital pan app you can download for free . It has all the pans a steelband has and you play the pan by touching the notes . I heard a group
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San Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies - Despite whatever odds irresponsible adults in society may visit upon our young people, engaging them in the national instrument in a meaningful and structured manner from both the pre-teen and t
Read more…Harmonites Steel Orchestra captures three in a row in ‘Small Band Category’
Gros Islet, St. Lucia, W.I. - Who said “13” was an unlucky number? If you ask Pantime Steel Orchestra of St. Lucia, the 2013 National Steelband Panorama champs, you’ll get
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Pantime Steel Orchestra & Harmonites Steel Orchestra - 2013 large and small band St. Lucia steelband panorama champions!
Read more…By Colville Mounsey
Renowned pannist, Len “Boogsie” Sharpe presenting CDs to (from right) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, Minister of Culture for Trinidad and Tobago, Lincoln Douglas; and Barbados’ Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley.
Barbados - A
Read more…Read more…Now the thing is WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A T&T SHOWCASE NEXT YEAR ON BET- BUT IT ENT GO LOOK ANYTHING LIKE WHAT WE NAIEVELY THINK IT SHOULD. IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:
· The artist will be: Nicki Minaj; Heather Headley; Trinidad
The legendary pan pioneer, bandleader , arranger, tells his life story and of his associations with two great San Fernando steelbands, Guinness Gondoliers, and Guinness Cavaliers.
"At the age of 22 in 1965, Lennox “Bobby” Mohammed became the younges
Read more…North London Today
SINGING, storytelling and steel bands all featured on Thursday afternoon as Honilands Primary School celebrated its 60th birthday.
Current and former pupils were present at the jubilee party which included a spec
The sweet sounds of the steel pan will float across Barbados this weekend starting tomorrow night with First Citizens Pan Fusion at Ilaro Court.
Then there will be pan in two cities when the National Cultural Foundation/Caribbean Broadcasting Corpora
Read more…Antigua Observer
ST JOHN’S, Antigua- He is not calling it a controversy but member of the Pan Association Kuma Rodney has been defending a decision to allow foreign judges at this year’s panorama competition.
Rodney who is also owner of the Roots Ste
Read more…St. Joseph, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Atlanta Networks, Inc. presents “Panwomen is Boss,” an All-Female Pan Jazz Concert, on Sunday, July 28, 2013, at the La Joya Auditorium (opposite the Jinnah Memorial Mosque), Eastern Main Road, St. Joseph, Tr
Read more…The Trinidad Guardian
Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was in 1999 that the Eastern Main Road in Success Village, Laventille, got its first taste of an Emancipation celebration.
This took the form of a steelband parade with a dozen bands bei
Read more…Guyana Chronicle
Georgetown, Guyana - Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday received a $1.5M [USD $7,336.00] cheque from Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd to facilitate the fourth annual PanStart Pan Minors Literacy programme whi
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Tuner Andy Neils.
The Trinidad Guardian
Global - For many in T&T and the US, the name Mannette is synonymous with pan and steelband. As the Kennedys are to American politics, so are the Mannettes to steelband. It is no surprise, then, that in Barry Mannette a new gene
The Trinidad Guardian
Barataria, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - US Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Ajamu Nyomba, will be the guest speaker at Studio 66’s Pan focus today, [Wednesday July 10, 2013]. A former Solo Harmonites player, Nyomba will speak on Steelbands i
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Prieto: Recipients are models for others in their sector
by Joan Rampersad Saturday, July 6, 2013
Paris, France - At a Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony held in the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile at Palais de Congress de
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Oakdale, California, USA - Oakdale’s got talent. In fact, a bit of the island calypso sound performed by young Oakdale musicians will soon be featured on the Gallo Center for the Arts stage.
....“The kids played well and handled th
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