Dismantling the Pan In The Classroom Unit Is Tantamount to Turning Back The Hands Of The Clock

written by Andre Moses President, Pan in Schools Coordinating Council
 

In so many cases the right and wrong of a situation has little to do with the arguments in themselves, but has all to do with how the framework for the discussion is presented. Th

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Close Encounter of the First kind..

Hi Folks. On a recent visit to Canada, the present captain of Starlift, Mike Franco,embraced the opportunity to visit and formally meet the original founder and and first captain  of Starlift, Albert "philo" James. Franco heard a great deal about" Ph

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New York Champs of Steel - Steelpan music at its finest

New York Pan... much more than entertainment - it’s an experience, it’s culture, it’s community, it’s affirmation of life... the tradition continues...

New York Champs of Steel Concert

 

New York, USA - The big guns in the New York steelpan music fr

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Peter Ray Blood On The "Pan In School" Issue. (Should this even be an issue?)

"It is a fact that our home-bred national instrument is perhaps the best disciplinarian there is, supported by several success stories through the years. I remember, way back as a child, when my late uncle headed NATTS (National Association of T&T St

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Dundalk Students to Perform in Steel Drum Extravaganza -- "....The event is modeled after the "real" Panoramas held in Jamaica...."

Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Dundalk area students will participate in a steel drum band extravaganza Friday night when Parkville High School hosts the 11th annual Panorama.   Bands from Gen. John Stricker Middle and Sparrows Point High schools wi

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Live -- The Steel Pan Festival of Trinidad & Tobago

The Steel Pan Festival of Trinidad & Tobago

Carnival TV regrets that we are unable to stream Steelfestt tonight due to a damaged FLOW cable in POS. The concert will be available for viewing on Monday 7th May. We are sorry for the inconvenience...

Re

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Labor Day Carnival: More Questions

By: Tony Best -- Carib News

          The seeming lack of an acceptable level of transparency and accountability in the way the West Indian American Carnival Association handles New York state funds that are used to help stage the country’s largest

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West Indian American Carnival Gets New President

Grenada Chronicle

New York, USA - The West Indian American Day Carnival has a news President.

 

He is WIADCA stalwart, Thomas “Tom” Bailey who will replace Yolanda Lezama-Clarke in the post. Lezama-Clarke, the daughter of the event’s founder, Carlos

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Music On The Hill by Laura Franklin- A Historical Review of Music at St. Francois Girls' College 1962-2006

The Steel Orchestra.

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About the Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation - A Story that should be known

ABOUT THE LAVENTILLE STEELBAND FESTIVAL (LSF) FOUNDATION

The Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation started as a committee under the Board of Management of the Laventille Community Complex in 1999, with a mandate to uplift the communities of Lavent

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Launch of the teaching Academy for Steel Pan in New Zealand

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NYU Steel is for Real - No schizophrenic behavior about the Steelpan...

NYU Steel is for Real

No schizophrenic behavior about the Steelpan - in the school of Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development... 

Another When Steel Talks Concert Review

New York, New York - For this Spring Steel Orchestra co

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Ashton Craig, Playing Route 66" Jazz

 one of the Cut From my New CD title Glamorama

is now on sale , musicman60@msn.com

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Pan sampling - is it real?

pelham goddard posted a status

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Congrats to WST and the 10,000 plus membership

Congratulations to When Steel Talks (WST) and the membership. We have now passed the 10,000 membership mark and counting. This is great news we have come a long way in a relatively short time and the best is yet to come.

(Just imagine when we are up

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Herkimer Elementary Steel Drum Band plays in Albany

WKTV News

State Senator James L. Seward (R/C/I-Oneonta) welcomed the Herkimer Elementary Steel Drum Band to Albany on Tuesday.

 

“Music groups from around the state perform regularly in the Empire State Plaza concourse, but none draw a crowd like th

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Pan Globalisation: Progress and Possibilities May 6 - May 9, 2012

The time has come after years of pounding PanTrinbago for lack of vision 2012 so far seems to be the break-out year for PanTribago - Panorama, Pan in the Countryside, PANAZZ, SteelfFesTT

Steelpan Activist from around the world who for the past years

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Probably the only web site dedicated entirely to the steelpan in Spanish.

 

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Thwaites Brothers tour United Kingdom with Native Deen

Shawn and Sherwin continue to spread the voice of the steel drum throughout the world. The brothers recently toured the UK with Native Deen promoting their third album "The Remedy" .  Native Deen along with Danish pop sensation, "Outlandish," Junaid

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About the LSFF-Eight of Hearts steelband Concert

LAVENTILLE STEELBAND FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
EIGHT OF HEARTS STEELBAND CONCERT
Saturday May 19th, 2012

The Eight of Hearts Steelband Concert is produced by the Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation biennially. It showcases the national instrument in co

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