Brooklyn, New York, USA- The steel drums may have been born in Trinidad — but for this island-born tinkerer, it took a move to Brooklyn to find the pan's perfect pitch.
Clement Franklin, 54, of Canarsie, began banging out steel drums i
New York, USA-A kaleidoscope of colors and a cacophony of adrenaline pumping soca rhythms are at the core of the West Indian American Day Carnival (WIADC) parade held on Labor Day along a several mile stretch of Eastern Parkway in the
PANWEST CARIBBEAN STEELPAN MUSIC ACADEMY was launched on August 18th 2012 in THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA with a focus on bringing the magic of the STEELPAN to students of EVERY age. This is the first STEELPAN ACADEMY to be established as a commercial,
Does anyone knows how to tune ah "iron?" or seen someone tune a iron from scratch? Do you heat it untill it get to a certain temperature and bang on it with a short sledge hammer or what? I am trying to give this info to a friend of mine, he wants to
“New York Panorama” is in the air once again, and the finest steel orchestras are readying their performances coming up this weekend for the greatest musical contest in the region.
The 2012 Pan Yard recording season is in session, Basement
Global- Six of the UK’s most noted steel orchestras will put their best musical notes forward, in the annual tournament of bands coming together in their efforts to cop the prestigious title of Panorama champs. Five will endeavor to wrest the title
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to 2012 Grenada Steelband Panorama Champions - New Dimension Steel Orchestra -- with David "Peck" Edwards as arranger!!
Congratulations to all the participating Grenada steel orchestras: 2nd: Angel Harps; and
It may have taken them almost a year to receive their performance fees and prize money but the Caribbean steelbands have finally been paid the $52,000 owed to them by the West Indian American Day Carnival
“Chinee music” was a derisive characterization some wiseacre came up with as a putdown
Global- One of the Trinidad and Tobago dailies a few days ago carried a report about pan visionary Bertie Marshall being hospitalized, supposedly because of issues
Global -“We go be dangerous, when we come back” – and the band was indeed the ‘comeback kid’ of the 2012 season. Like the lyrics of their Panorama song, When We Come Back, Grenada’s New Dimension Steel Orchestra triumphed and did just that, turning
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....I was embarrassed last weekend when a group of young people from Finland and Denmark were asked to contact me to find out where they could go in Port-of-Spain on a Friday evening to hear live p
Brooklyn, New York, USA - The steel drums may have been born in Trinidad — but for this island-born tinkerer, it took a move to Brooklyn to find the pan's perfect pitch.
