Maryland, USA - Join Pan Masters Steel Orchestra (PMSO) on Sunday May 27th for an evening of treasured music on The Steel Pan by some of the top bands on the east coast. The lime starts at 2:00 p.m. The venue will complement a traditional outdoor set
Read more…In honor of this weekend’s most auspicious collision of Record Store Day and Earth Day, Saturday and Sunday respectively, I decided to reprise a sto
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Alabama, USA - Unity students got a real taste of the source waters for steel drumming when they performed at the first annual Southeast Steel Band Carnival Saturday April 14th. This was the renaissance concert event for Alabama’s famed Montieth Ampi
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I recently got my tenor back and started playing some old panorama calypsoes. So far I have learned High Mass by Nu-Tones, Pan Earthquake by Renegades and have started learning Bee's Melody, again by Renegades. I have reached the 6' 50" m
Read more…Below, are excerpts of an article by Gulcharan Mohabir, in which he gives his perspective on, Indian Indentureship: A Forgotten Episode of History. The CAPITALIZED SUBTITLES, underlined words, and bold print are my own, and you can click on the link
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The annual D.C. Caribbean Carnival is in serious financial trouble and may not occur this year, organizers say.
City officials say they will not sign off on the Caribbean Car
Read more…Hotep, Big Sid.
I really try to stay away from my “religious” beliefs on this WST forum, as I believe that, unlike the other “taboo” topic –politics, our personal religious paradigms should be kept to ourselves. I am surprised that you would call Br.
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Maine, USA - The 22nd annual Pan NE Steelband Festival will be held Sunday, May 6, starting at 10 a.m. under the tent in front of the Sugarloaf Inn.
Among the bands from throughout New England that will play are the Western Mountain Tra
Read more…New York Steel Band Pioneers to be Honored!
Posthumous tribute to two well-known names
New York, USA - Some veterans of the New York steel band scene who, back in the 1950s and 60s, laid the foundation for the steel band movement that now exists in
I may be late with this news, but I was just informed on the passing of Sheldon....this means we have lost another great one...so many from the homeland are leaving. Sheldon was a very young man in his 30's. Many would know of him winning the Ex Temp
Read more…Funeral Service set for Steelband Stalwart Junior Pouchet
Pan Trinbago closes offices in observance of the association's past president
Global - The funeral service of Edgar “Junior” Pouchet will take place at St. Finbar’s Roman Catholic Church, Mo
I hope I misunderstood, but I was perusing the Express Online this morning, and I read where PM Kamla Bissesar, and her administration, have launched a nationwide celebration of Trinidad & Tobago's 50th Independence anniversary, which is planned to c
Read more…Andy Akiho is Busting Out... Taking the Steelpan Instrument to Uncharted Zones
New Stories and Conversations for Pan
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - On a cool and crisp spring Friday evening, When Steel Talks (WST) finds itself at the prestigious Pri
Read more…My sincerest condolences to Alvin Daniell, and the rest of the Daniell/Cudjoe family in this time of our loss. Dianne Daniell nee Cudjoe, was one of a kind, and I will always remember her hospitality whenever I used to visit their home, which at one
Read more…The Foundry Ensemble Showcases with Andy Akiho on Steelpan
Princeton University the backdrop of Pan
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - It’s intense, yet relaxed; the familiarity of the players in the practice room in the Woolworth Music Center, just next
Read more…In the ongoing debate over the recent posting of the video clip, titled, Boogsie the Greatest, one of my former “teachers”, Eric, solicited me to expand on my statement that “ramajay and jazz improve, are two entirely different things, with the forme
Read more…We all love the steel pan. Are there any innovations that our pan community is looking forward to?
Read more…It is sad to see we have become so paranoid about being Politically Correct that we rather not wish one another Happy Easter for fear of labeled Christian or Jesus Freak, Anyhow if you believe in the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg or the EMPTY TOMB Happ
Read more…To Alvin Daniel in this difficult time may you lift up your eyes unto the hills.
Condolences to you and your family on the passing of your wife Diane.
Read more…Bradley meet Junior at the Pearly gates and welcome him the other day, he said yuh know how long ah ask for some help, dey surely took ah long time before sending someone. He then went on to say the pan side up here so big ah cyr handle it by mehself
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