by Dalton Narine
Global - ....For now, I’m in the Grand Stand and medium band Katzenjammers is making a play. They don’t know that their song, Edwin Pouchet’s Shock Attack, is being received as muddy water, like the Tsunami effect their instruments
Recently there was a big discussion on the use of The Electronic Steelpan. I thought I should share this clip of BP Renegades practicing in their panyard as they get ready for the road, and other performances for the 2013 Panorama and Carnival season
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Global - Thirty-eight steel orchestras will compete in the Junior National Panorama at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Sunday 3 February 2013 from 9:00 a.m. The competition is staged by The M
Read more…The Minister of National Security declared on national TV that whether it is 1 or 3 steelbands, to him, it's the same NOISE. He says he can't tell the difference. It hurts when you know the sacrifices and hardwork that pannists undergo to produce g
Read more…The Akron Beacon Journal
Ohio, USA - While skaters circled the ice at Lock 3, the Civic Theatre was suggesting warmer times and climes on Sunday afternoon.
Even before the University of Akron Steel Drum Band gave a 2:30 p.m. concert, the lobby of th
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
by Rubadiri Victor
The Greens must be destroyed. I'm clear of it. This is despite the fact that I spent most of Sunday there—so I know of what I speak.
It was carnal. Completely. And I needed that—but that was all it ever
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Global - It is said that our lives are inextricably linked together in ways we may never know or imagine.
....Years ago a very young Ray Holman arranged the Beatles’ original and the now classic Penny Lane for Starlift Steel Orchestra. While this so
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Global - The Arima Carnival Committee in collaboration with the Eastern Region of Pan Trinbago presents its 2013 Panorama Competition on Monday 4 February 2013 at the Arima Basketball Court, Hollis Avenue in Arima, Trinidad. The
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our condolences to the family and friends of Tony Lewis of Renegades Steel Orchestra.
Read more…Andy Narell posted this in facebook
Read more…I just want to say thank you to all the players and to the entire Birdsong organization for a fantastic performance last night. You did everything I asked and hoped for and you were awesome from the first play on
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Trinidad Newsday
Pan-tastic Sunday goes green
Thursday, January 31 2013
In addition to being a platinum sponsor of the Panorama events, TSTT with its family of services blink | bmobile has been a longtime supportive assoc
Read more…National Carnival Commission chairman Allison Demas last night said the Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) will be broadcasting this year’s major Carnival events. In a statement, Demas said CNMG had been granted exclusive rights for TV broadcast of maj
Read more…My intention is not to bring about any controversy but just trying to see how the dropping of the high and low score on the judges score sheets is viewed by others. We will all never agree with whatever system is used but with just one point separat
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Global - ....While it is true that beggars cannot be choosers, in this case when the two stations overlapped in coverage there was only one real choice. That was Vibe CT 105.1 FM which was clearly superior. For reasons unknown to us i95.5 FM’s broadc
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Unlike the violence between North Stand patrons and the police at last year’s National Panorama semi-finals at the Greens in the Queen's Park Savannah, in Port-of-Spain, yesterday’s Panorama semis s
Gayelle TV is reporting that calypsonian Sedley Joseph aka Penguin has died. When Steel Talks extends condolences to the friends and family of Sedley Joseph.
Read more…Pan stigma
They were from a generation that did not fully embrace the steelpan, its history and significance to the country, and like many in their social standing in the community, they applied a stigma to this beautiful instrument.
Learning the
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Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Of all the early films involving calypso, Windjammer is perhaps the strangest and rarest of the lot.
....The scenes in Windjammer filmed in Trinidad offer a fascinating glimpse into the early deve
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