Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, USA- As the Percussion and Steel Band Academy students arrive at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor, they begin meeting new mentors, making new friendships, learning new music, ex
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I.- For the participants in the 2012 Grenada Bomb Tune competition, and those who had the good fortune to be there in person to experience it, the show was probably a good one, if 2011 and other past Bomb Tune competitions w
Pan Trinbago kicked off the first of the two Tobago "Pan in the Countryside" Pan event on Saturday July 7th 2012. The venue was in Charlotteville which lies Northeast on the Sister Isle.
We were entertained with Single Pans by Metro Stars and Natural
Land-grant College Anniversary Celebration Includes Cultural Dimension
Washington D.C., USA- Considering the steel pan drum originated in Trinidad and Tobago, few people associate the state of West Virginia with steel drum band
Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I.- More than a hat-trick, to make their own mark on history, steel orchestras from St. Vincent & the Grenadines will now have to surpass the ‘beaver trick’—four championships in a row—racked up by the 2012
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- A number of years ago, Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove rocked the Queen’s Park Savannah at the National Panorama final playing Birthday Party. Last Saturday night, Hamilton Street in Woodbrook rocked
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.-The recent Birdsong annual Scholarship Benefit Concert was one of the best productions staged at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium of the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA) since its openin
It is when great sadness that I announce the passing of Dominique. Dominique was the daughter of Margret Kathy Clarke, former Secretary of United States Steel Band Association Inc. Dominique played pan with Metro Steel Orchestra, Umoja and Despers US
West Virginia, USA -Surely you haven’t heard “Country Roads” quite like this.
The sounds of every Mountaineer’s favorite John Denver song are resonating through the nation’s capital in an Afro-Caribbean flavor, courtesy of the West Virgi
I am raising an issue because it is current in T&T and I can’t help but looking at it from a 360 point of view. The topic of Music Literacy at the Pan in the Classroom program has now shifted to Music Literacy in the Pan Yards.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -New Arts & Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas paid an impromptu visit to Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove’s panyard on Saturday night. A surprised Phase II leader Len “Boogsie” Sharpe and
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.-Pan Trinbago continues its “Pan in de Countryside” series with two events in Tobago. The first comes off at the Charlotteville Recreation Ground, on Saturday 7th July from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
New York, USA -A Taste of Tantz, the official launch of Tantz catering in the form of an elegant Jardin Soirée at Garden 54 in Brooklyn, New York, was the place to be whether you were already down with the
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she hopes steelpan music will soon become part of the repertoire of the National Symphony Orchestra of the United States.
