Carnival’s Steelband Panorama Competition in Doubt
By: Tony Best - NY's Carib News
Less than six weeks before the colorful West Indian carnival is put on full display before more than a million spectators in Brooklyn, serious doubts have arisen
Read more…South Africa will be blown away by the marimbas and steelpans at the Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival.
It will be held at Bishop Bavin School in Bedfordview, Gauteng on 4 and 5 August 2012.
Be prepared for over 1 000 marimba
We view with disappointment and dismay recent statements by the new Minister of The Arts and Multiculturalism, The Honourable Dr. Lincoln Douglas, about (1) Carnival and (2) meetings and proposals from us. Whilst we seek no war of words or anything e
Read more…At the 1989 Panorama, Ken "professor" Philmore/Fonclaire tied with Len "boogsie" Sharpe/Phase II. That was the first year that another Arranger/Steel Orchestra had played another arranger's composition and tied with his band.
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- It is graduation time for 61 youngsters attached to the Humming Bird Pan Groove Steel Orchestra Music School in the Panyard Camp. The youths ranging from six to sixteen years will receive certificates after successfully compl
Read more…Malibu is screening an advert in the UK using Mighty Shadow - Dat Soca in the background sound track
I wonder if they are paying him? and is the contract for per play or just a one off?
It could be a "Who let the dogs out" all over again.
COTT are y
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Tobago, W.I. - The RBC Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra recently launched its annual July-August holidays, “Redemption Academy Pan Camp” for children ages five and up.
The camp will run for four to five weeks after
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Patrons who paid $50 to attend "Pan on A Higher Note" at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain on Saturday evening left smiling, having got more than their money's worth.
The co
Brooklyn, New York, USA - So not even the torridness of the then-unfolding heat wave or the downpour of rain, could put a ‘damper’ on last weekend’s Pan fete. It was “Back in Times” through the ‘90s, New York style. Yes it has begun - “Pan in New Yor
After continued "pressure", I finally got the CEO of the Africa Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company (ATTSDC), Chief Bowie Sonnie Bowei, to answer questions posed at him. Although, he has been a WST member since Aug 2010, this was the most
Read more…Canadians Celebrate Steelpan Music at Week-Ends du Monde
Montreal, Canada - They danced, they sang, they smiled broadly, as they cheered and clapped and they listened intently - but mostly their hearts, bodies and souls were filled with the joyous
Read more…Firstly, Chief Bowei, I sincerely thank you, on behalf of the WST membership, for the opportunity to have my questions answered. Again, they come through me, and are not of me, nor for my personal gain. I seek only honest answers to the following, wi
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan’s future expansion lies not in the 1.2 million nation of TT, but in the 170 million people of Nigeria and other West African nations.
Africans who have learned much about the pan were at Wedne
Read more…Today, I just wanted to be aware of the day Nelson Mandela arrived. Happy Earth Arrival Day, Nelson Mandela! President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election!!! http://www.nobelp
Read more…Trinidad Guardian - Published:
Monday, July 16, 2012
Members of the media were ordered out of a meeting of Pan Trinbago yesterday at the Scherzando panyard in Curepe. The meeting was called following allegations levelled against Pan Trinbago presiden
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar..."respectfully" disagreed with President George Maxwell Richards.
Richards, addressing both Houses of Parliament, stated that "except for the steelpan, we have b
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to journalist Jared McCallister
Read more…Dr Lance Seunarine is a member of WST and also an author of three books with a fourth coming out some time this year.
He was taken back with the plight of Bertie Marshall, having seen it happen before with Allan Gervais where after their contribution
Read more…Dear Chief Bowie,
We, the WST membership, would like to know, why you have chosen to remain silent, on the issues raised on this forum, regarding your newly formed company, the Africa Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company. As die-hard lover
REPOST: Hotep. I've been doing a little research over the last few days, and based on the law, the facts, and evidence, Pan Trinbago and any "for profit" business or company they form, may not be legal, and in violation of applicable statutes, as th
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