Trinidad & Tobago Newsday Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In 1951, an era when young middle-class women were kept far away from the steelband movement, “Ellie” Robertson joined the Girl Pat Steel Orchestra, the first all women steelband formed in Trinidad |
I think Pan times should EDIT these discussions, for RACIST, SARCASTIC and DEROGATORY remarks, it makes these discussions very unhealty These things should not be here.This is one of the reasons why a lot of people refrain from joining these discussi
Read more…When Steel Talks extends to Happy Birthday greetings to to Milton Wire Austin
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to ajudicator, arranger, musician and educator Merle Albino-de Coteau
Read more…on the passing of their grandmother/mother respectively
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Tobago, W.I. - On Tuesday June 19 members of Our Boys Steel Orchestra of Tobago began a European tour that would see the band performing and holding a series of workshops over a two-month period.
The group compris
Read more…Global - Jonathan Scales plays a voguish style of pan. And he does so by articulating life and pers
More Panorama 2011 Notes by Dalton Narine
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Now that I can see things more clearly since eye surgery, allow me to avail readers with more material from the 2011 Panorama. And, yes, I trust my ears.
Raf Robertson, musician
Read more…It saddens me to say this, after all the fight from both the local and international pan world, but after some results in the semi-final round of Panorama 2011, i cannot agree more. PANORAMA (JUDGING) IS KILLING PAN.
Firstly let me say that i didnt p
Read more…The choice is a simple one. I am no fan of Pan Trinbago, but this is bigger than that. Sign the petition. Time to stop the talk and walk the walk.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nationals-and-steelpanlovers/
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Read more…Washington, DC, USA - City Hall’s flinty gavel has rapped out no to Caribbean American friendship in 2012.The DC Caribbean Carnival (DCCC) has been forced to move its decades-old tradition from the nation’s capital 35 miles north to a m
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Music Schools in the Panyard Programme began with a bang on Monday with citizens of all creeds, races and ages converging at the designated panyards to grasp the opportunity of learning to pla
Musashino-City, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese steel pan player Sasaki Kentaro who visited Trinidad and performed with Phase II Pan Groove in 2005, has a passion for Pan, and earlier this month he funneled this passion into what became the festival ‘Pan Lov
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great arranger, leader and innovator extraordinaire - Anthony "Tony" Williams.
New York - There are few steelpan music organizations that can match or rival the music educational success record of New York’s CASYM Steel Orchestra.
The Big Apple steelpan music franchise has been a productive fixture within the New York educat
Read more…Pan Pioneer and Leader of the famed North Stars Steel Orchestra, Mr. Anthony Williams celebrated his 81st Birthday by honouring some of the icons in the Pan World. This auspicious event took place at the St. James Amphitheatre in Trinidad, on Sunday
Read more…African and African-American music studies
MA, Cambridge College
Assistant Professor Orville Wright's page
Orville Wright started his musical training at a very early age in Trinid
When Steel Talks extends well-wishes to the family and friends of Orville Wright in this trying time.
Pan Times apologizes to the Steelpan fraternity and the friends and family of Orville Wright, and to Mr. Wright himself, for the possibly imprecise
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By VERDEL BISHOP Wednesday, June 20 2012 - Trinidad Newsday
After playing a musical tribute on the steelpan, during veteran pannist Franklyn Ollivierra’s funeral service at the Trinity Cathedral, on Monday, Len Boogsie Sharp, broke down and had to
Read more…THE International Soca Awards which took place at NAPA on Saturday 26th November 2011 was a comedy of errors that was only saved by Master of Ceremonies and comedian, Tommy Joseph.
Hosted by US-based iSA organization, SAO Soca Awards Ltd/Soca Awards
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