It’s Steelband Time in Nigeria with the Third Secondary Schools’ Panorama

Nigeria - The first day of November is a day of Steelpan in Nigeria, as the Nigerian Schools Steelband Panorama is held for the third time. Last year, seven steel orchestras participated in the event and this year, additional schools which were in th

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When Steel Talks sends Birthday Greetings to Earl La Pierre

When Steel Talks extends belated happy birthday greetings to arranger Earl La Pierre

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Music from behind the Bridge — Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

Shannon Dudley

Print publication date: 2007

Print ISBN-13: 9780195175479

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195175479.001.0001

The Steelband Movement and Music

This chapter shows that a dynamic relatio

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Happy Birthday to Val Serrant

Happy Birthday to Val Serrant from When Steel Talks

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Controversy mars schools’ panorama

St. John’s Antigua- Eleven bands, two winners and another judging controversy.

The 2011 Independence Schools Steel Band Competition saw a keenly contested battle for top honours and bragging rights, but the event was marred by logistical snags and a

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Pillars of Steel CD and DVD- What's going on?

Here I am, trying to support pan, and anxioue to enjoy a good pan concert. So I try to buy my copies of the Pillars of Steel CD and DVD on WACK FM as advertised.

Come to find out its not available.

It was taken of the market for legal reasons.

Appare

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DUVONE STEWART WILL ARRANGE FOR RENEGADES IN 2K12

It is now official, Duvone Stewart will take the BP Renegades Steel
Orchestra to the Savannah for Panorama 2K12. The popular Charlotte Street band has won the national competition on nine occasions (including a hatric between 1995 and 1997) with arran

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Happy Birthday to Len “Boogsie” Sharpe

When Steel Talks extends Happy Birthday greetings (October 28) to the great Len “Boogsie” Sharpe. When Steel Talks (WST) has had the great fortune of interacting with “Boogsie” on different levels for years. Enjoy your day, and thanks for being in W

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PDN PhotoPlus Expo - Technology, The Immediacy of Now and the Steelpan Music Movement

New York, USA - Terry Joseph, the late entertainment editor for the Trinidad and Tobago national newspaper the Trinidad Express, once joked while lamenting (simultaneously impressed and irritated) that, in going through his normal routine after takin

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From Trinidad and Tobago with Love....

musical moment: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tries her hand on a tenor pan after it was presented yesterday to Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Duxton Hotel in Perth, Australia. Persad-Bissessar is in Australia for the Commonwea

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Dr. Geraldine Connor has passed

When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Geraldine Connor; she was a massive steelpan music icon and force in the performing arts. In addition, Dr. Connor was a member of the WST family.

On her WST bio she wri

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The greatest pan-side ever assembled.

The greatest pan-side ever assembled.

They represent the most gifted, talented and knowledgeable steelpan music people in the world.

click to view

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Re: WST's "The History of SteelPan Time Line"

Why isn't George "Sonny" Goddard's passing mentioned in this "time line"? Why isn't he given credit for MUCH of the info posted, which are direct quotations from his book: "Forty Years In The Steelbands - 1939 - 1979"? Should his "death" receive the

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Representing the stee;pan in everyway possible.as a panman.

My comments may be offensive to many,,but let the truth prevail,,i,m on this website When Steel Talks to express my feelings in a possitive way with no gimmicks or running around,or bobbing and weaving,,,the subject matter and point of importance r

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Remembering Lovely Latavia... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Tenor bass player

New York, USA - .- Miguel Reyes’s The Last Band sung by Peter D’Royce was the last Panorama piece lovely Latavia Deane got to perform with Despers USA Steel Orchestra, when the band competed in the 2010 New York Panorama. A song that makes one dance

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Panmen to collect $1.5m this week

Published: Wed, 2011-04-27 22:41

Keith Anderson

Some $1.5 million will be paid to panmen this week. Pan Trinbago has been at the centre of controversy following the failure of payment of stipends to pan

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Govt sues 3 over G-Pan rights

October 23, 2011

Government has initiated legal proceedings against Prof Brian Copeland and two associates—Marcel Byron and Keith Maynard over the rights of the (Genesis G-Pan).

The claim was filed by the State befor

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Who were the Pannist sent to represent T&T at the 1967 Expo World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.

This group was the official home based band in the T&T Pavilion and played daily. Some of the players were Knolly from the Coast Guard, Tobagonian Cesar, Roach, Briathwaite from the Police Services.This group was made up of Government employees for o

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Trinidad born bandleader Edmundo Ross has passed away

Trinidad born Latin bandleader Edmundo Ross has passed away . He lived to be 100 years old.

He popularized the Latin American music sound in Britain in the forties and fifties, and I remember regularly hearing his music on the radio in Trinidad in

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Talking about stolen Caribbean songs "Rum and Coca Cola" the foremost international superhit of calypso

The greater the superhit the greater the possiblity of it being copied in some form or fashion. That's why Record companies try to recapture the cost of production in its first sales of records. Then after that it begins to pay royalties to the artis

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It’s Steelband Time in Nigeria with the Third Secondary Schools’ Panorama

When Steel Talks sends Birthday Greetings to Earl La Pierre

Music from behind the Bridge — Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

Shannon Dudley

Happy Birthday to Val Serrant

Controversy mars schools’ panorama

Pillars of Steel CD and DVD- What's going on?

DUVONE STEWART WILL ARRANGE FOR RENEGADES IN 2K12

Happy Birthday to Len “Boogsie” Sharpe

PDN PhotoPlus Expo - Technology, The Immediacy of Now and the Steelpan Music Movement

From Trinidad and Tobago with Love....

Dr. Geraldine Connor has passed

The greatest pan-side ever assembled.

Re: WST's "The History of SteelPan Time Line"

Representing the stee;pan in everyway possible.as a panman.

Remembering Lovely Latavia... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Tenor bass player

Panmen to collect $1.5m this week

Panmen to collect $1.5m this week

Govt sues 3 over G-Pan rights

Govt sues 3 over G-Pan rights

Who were the Pannist sent to represent T&T at the 1967 Expo World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.

Trinidad born bandleader Edmundo Ross has passed away

Talking about stolen Caribbean songs "Rum and Coca Cola" the foremost international superhit of calypso

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