Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks - arrangers from the accomplished Codrington Pan Family—Cary, Khari and Keisha—share their thoughts overall on Panorama - its present and future, and their expected role in charting a new cours
Global - Sixteen steel orchestras have chosen “Vibes” as their tune of choice in the Conventional category in the 2012 Panorama competition. “Vibes” is composed by Mark Loquan, Ken “Professor” Philmore and Destra Garcia with vocals by Destra.
TO ALL WST MEMBERS! Salmon E-Pan Man-Cupid's Toronto All Stars Steel Orchestra, made it to the Top 20, during auditions for the upcoming "Canada's Got Talent" (due to air this March). Please support Salmon and his students, by going to the following
Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Grenada, W.I. - Though Local Government is not yet fully implemented, the Local Government Office through the initiative of Permanent Secretary Bernadette Lendore-Sylvester was able to secure funding from the Grenada El
Who coined the word "Panorama"? CDC Chairman, Ronald "Ronnie" Williams. This was in 1963, and was the country's first post-Independence Carnival. He suggested the name to (then) steelband association (NATTS) leader, George "Sonny" Goddard, and at tha
Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, composer, arranger and educator - scholar Salah Wilson, shares his visions and overall thoughts on Panorama, its past, present and future...
Connecticut - If you had to ask the question “Where is the Love,” the answer last Monday night would be: The Palace in Stamford, where the musical community came out once more in full force to pay tribute to percussionist Ralph MacDonald, a man whose
Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan musician, educationalist, arranger and former music director - NIU Master’s candidate Barry Mannette, shares his overall thoughts on Panorama - its past, present and future...
Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, steelpan historian, musician, film director and journalist Dalton Narine shares his overall thoughts on Panorama - its past, present and future... “Clive Bradley coming through clear in the wi
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- Days after Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) dropped its sponsorship of Skiffle Bunch, the steelband has a new sponsor. The band, which is confident of winning the 2012 National Panorama title, will no
THE CARNIVAL SEASON is upon us, and from what I read the Carnival stakeholdres have presented their varying budgets which run into millions of dollars.
Example Pan Trinbago requested $50 million to do their thing and got half - still a lot of money,
I don't think that there is another country that produce as much music as Trinidad every year. But every year most of that music die after 3 or 4 months, we produce the most music but we also discard the most music. In a Guardian article Leston Paul
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -Both panmen and management of 48 unsponsored steel orchestras (single pan, small, medium and large) received donations from Scotiabank to help in their preparation for Carnival and the Panorama competition.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - With a thrilling performance in Pleasantville on Thursday night, the 2011 Panorama South/Central Single Pan Bands defending champions, Self Help Marines, sounded a warning to their competitors that
Global - Five points separated the first two bands in the recently-concluded National Panorama Single Pan Bands Preliminaries.
