When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to Nicholas Mohan on the passing of his mother. Our support and well wishes are with you.
Read more…SteelFesTT 2012 (the Steelpan Festival of Trinidad and Tobago) inaugurates what is intended to become a biennial instrument-based festival dedicated to the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago. The festival will be launched in 2012 during the m
Read more…Some residents of Marysville have formed a steel pan band, using music to move on from Black Saturday
Lindy Burns talks to Rita Seethaler, who started Pans on Fire following the Black Saturday bushfires which killed 34 people in Marysville and burne
Happy Holidays to the global When Steel Talks family.
Congratulations to all the pan folks who performed over the holidays worldwide and big up to all the supporter and fans.
A special shout -out to the New York crew thanks for inviting WST to your p
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Global - WITCO Desperadoes Steel Orchestra, and by extension Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C., mourns the passing of Ralph MacDonald on the morning of Sunday December 18 in Connecticut, USA, at age 67 after a battle with lung cancer.
....many patrons attendin
New York - Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace and Mecca for the steelpan music instrument but New York continues to plant the seeds for present and future greatness, in addition to maintaining its past legacy for distinction. Bringing up the re
Read more…A BOOK TO LOVE UP
NESTOR SULLIVAN Reviews “The Illustrated Story Of Pan”
I thank and congratulate Dr Kim Johnson. In the treasury of books on the steelband, The Illustrated Story of Pan is among the most valuable of gems.
It cuts a new path by tell
ARRANGEMENTS:
Viewing:
Wednesday December 21st, 2011, From 3-8pm
Granby's Funeral Home
4021 White Plains Road
Bronx, NY 10466
http://www.granbysfuneralservice.com/
Service:
Thursday December 22nd, 2011, !0:00 am
Abyssinian
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Students at New Haven’s Cooperative Arts & Humanities Magnet High School will present the world premiere of “Broken Chains: A Gospel Hip-Hopera,” a musical written and composed by Yale graduate students, on Wednesday an
Read more…Percussionist Ralph MacDonald is visual and sometimes quietly intense but always expressive, and is a compendium of unique island and conventional percussive rhythms. The When Steel Talks (WST) crew was privileged to sit down with the dynamic musici
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$800 stipend for panmen
Thursday, December 15 2011 Panmen participating in the 2012 Panorama preliminaries will receive an $800 stipend approved by Cabinet for the last Carnival season. Pan Trinbago secretary, Richard Forteau said members were told |
The fastest Woman Bass Player that I have seen is the woman from Samaroo jets at the 1986 music festival, she is fast and very smooth, the other one I have seen is from Oasis steel band (new jersey), if there is anyone that is faster than the one fro
Read more…PUT COUNTRY FIRST - I LIME in All Stars Panyard last Saturday where a Steelband CD was launch several bands perform.
Today is the first day after the SoE it is a beautiful morning maybe rain later today after 4 weeks visiting I traveled to Moruga - I
Read more…birdsong
presents a Free Community Concert
Sunday December 18 @ 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Auzonville Park, Tunapuna, Trinidad, W.I.
Birdsong has an Academy where students are exposed to music on various instruments including: Steelpan; Brass; Keyboard; Percus
Read more…When Steel Talks extends Happy Birdthay greetings to Pelham Goddard. Mr. Goddard has penned some of the most memorable songs in recent Caribbean music history.
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Read more…I heard Bertram passed sometime this week, I think he was sick. I never knew his last name, but I knew him in City Symphony in the 60' , then he went to Desperadoes, I was hoping that someone would post the info on pan times. He was a know person in
Read more…Boogsie's Tribute to the Calypso King of the World is now on Sale.
Mp3s can be purchased online from CDBaby.com or from the Percussive Harmonic Instrument Facebook page.
In Trinidad, the physical retailers are Kam's (Long Circular Mall), Crosby's (St
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Tobago, W.I. - We are at Scott’s Holiday Apartments, in Mt. Pleasant, Tobago [for Pazzaz, the Pan Jazz show held earlier this year on April 29 in Tobago]: panist Jason “Peanuts” Isaac, Fitzroy “Poporoy” Henry, Riley and myself, Keith Anderson. Riley
