Okay, I admit, I have a bias toward Othello. He after all, is the ONLY recording steel drummist/panist (that I know of), to honor George "Sonny" Goddard, for his contribution to the steelband movement. He also happens to be one one the world's more f
Read more…I knew Junior in 1952 when he invited me to be a member of his 1st SteelbanNamed:- Gold Coast. Bunny Sosa was also a member of the band ,we praticed in Cocoerite. After Silver Stars came into being. I was never a member of Silver Stars.I was with Di
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The steelband fraternity yesterday came out to the St Finbar's RC Church in Morne Coco Road, Diego Martin, to bid farewell to founding member of the Silver Stars Steel Orchestra Junior Edgar Francis Pouchet.
In a few weeks New York's Despers USA will host a concert called Champions in Steel. New York has had no shortage of great champion steel orchestra franchises and panorama music arrangements that are now classics. Who can forget those classic panora
Read more…Recently, a call came in – someone was looking for a steel drum player for a local gig, and was referred to this one “working panman" from Trinidad; a Florida resident, and one of Boogsie's "crackshot" tenor pan players for Phase II. Negotiations wer
Read more…by Dalton Narine
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Desperadoes wasn’t at the finals on Panorama night, in part because the average fan could have hardly recognized the personality of the band, though 42-year tenor player Ursula Tudor stood out as usual.
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United States Steel Band Association Inc. (USSA) presents "Pan Expo 2012" a Bomb Competition
On Saturday June 9th, 2012 at Old Boys High Field Rutland Rd, Troy & Schenectady from 12 noon to 7pm. Minimum of seven (7) players maximum of fifteen (15). T
Read more…Lets see who can list all the History Junior Pouchet created as leader of Silver Stars.
Read more…SATURDAY MAY 5th 2012 Performing live- Adlib steel Orchestra Pan Sonatas steel Orchestra Casym INC. Pantonic steel Orchestra Despers
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Santiago de Cuba - A steel band will play the “Ave María” for Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, this Tuesday, March 27.
The “Steel band” composed by 14 amateur musicians is one of the most impo
Read more…I do hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful Holiday season.
On a more somber note, I've been informed that popular Trinidadian trombonist Simeon Cabellero aka "Neville Oxley" is seriously ill, and on life support in a New York hospital.
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The MidWeek
DeKalb, Illinois, USA - In the formidable building that once housed the Wurlitzer Company in DeKalb, music is still being made by hand.
Wurlitzer, which made pianos, organs, accordions and jukeboxes at the plant, ceased production there
Read more…Toward Standardized Pans
by Bert Boldon
Some say that given pan music’s relative newness, which makes ongoing exploration in the tuning area a foregone conclusion, any move toward standardized instruments would be premature. For others, such talk jus
This has been a historic issue with the steel orchestras. Is it not time for the leaders to seek more funds from sponsors? I would think that if each band were to seek more sponsorship from established companies, manufacturers, large establishments e
Read more…Antigua Observer
St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - For the first time since Antigua & Barbuda’s staging of the Panorama competition, joint winners have been declared.
LIME Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra and Hadeed Group of Companies AMP Halycon St
Let me start by reminding people that PAN and STEELBAND are not the same thing, it is the Steelbands in T&T that are in danger, Pan is global therefore nothing will hinder it from being developed to its full potential and Trinidad and Tobago cannot d
Read more…Embassy of Cuba in Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain, Trinidad - On Monday 19th March, in a moving ceremony held at the National Academy of Performing Arts, the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism presented 3 steelpans to members of the Steelpan
Presented by Kelly Strayhorn Theater in partnership with Union Project
Tuesday–Thursday, April 17–May 24 | Performance Wednesday, May 30
SOUNDWAVES is a full-scholarship intensive steelband music program designed
Ohio, USA - Aug. 12 — 2012 edition of Pantasia
Quote from Pantasia Director - Tim Mattis - “In September 1995, as I was beginning my second year as an assistant band director in the Findlay City Schools, I had a meeting with parents of high school p
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