St. Vincent & the Grenadines - Defending Vincy steelband Panorama champs, Sion Hill Euphonium Steel Orchestra played their way straight to the top for another year, dashing the hopes of main rivals Starlift Steel Orchestra to dethrone them for 2011
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- In St. Margaret’s Boys Anglican School’s continued quest to provide its young scholars with a holistic development process, the educational institution has embarked on a Pan Programme which has been quite successful. And to
Application number: 12/171,634
Publication number:
Filing date: 11 Jul 2008
Issued patent: 7750220 (Issue date 6 Jul 2010)
An ensemble of acoustic steelpan musical instruments, being an innovation which significantly improves upon traditional acousti Read more…
Well the more things change, the more things remain the same. People especially politicians just provide lip service to the steelpan and the youths of TnT. Starlift Junior Steel Orch will not be heading to Canada to participate in the Montreal intern
‘Nuff’ Pan Pun De Sand
Barbados, W.I. - Eleven steelpan groups, including two from Trinidad and Tobago, will perform at the BS&T Pan Pun De Sand, now one of the most anticipated events of Barbados’ Crop Over Festival.
This was disclosed yesterday
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
Perfect pitch, goes a musician joke, is throwing the banjo in the dumpster and hitting the accordion. Seriously, though, it’s a perfect combo when Jonathan Scales throws in the banjo with the do
Read more…Hi to ALL my pan colleagues. Today, I thought I'd share the MOST credible approach to making a claim. For you who may not know, although I am a music major, I became very interested in my minor field of psychology (partly to understand my own past an
Read more…Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center receives grant money
Illinois, USA - "The Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center has been awarded a grant of $500 by the President's Discretionary Fund of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois," Laura Schweitz
Read more…Major Cash Injection for Panorama
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Sixty thousand dollars has been injected into the Panorama competition ahead of the 2011 Carnival celebrations. The Antigua Commercial Bank (ACB) made the donation to representatives of th
In January of 1986, six months after immigrating to the US, I met Mr. Clifford Alexis for what I thought was the first time. Mr. Alexis came to tune the pans for the band I was in. As an introduction, the leader said: "Clifford, you know who this is?
Read more…Grants keep steel pans popping
Wisconsin, USA - For 80 years, the La Crosse Community Foundation has given money to local groups to make La Crosse a better place. This year, the foundation designated $80,000 from its general fund to be used as Birt
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Before leaving home last Sunday to attend the Sagicor Exocubs’ second annual youth steelpan explosion concert, “RevelaXion 2 — Moods,” at Sagicor Exodus pan orchestra pan yard in St Augustine, I read a newspaper article abo
Elton "Smokey" John, bass player extraordinaire of City Symphony Steelband (T&T) and the National Steelband of Trinidad & Tobago (1960's), and founder of the Mississauga Academy of Steelband Music passed away yesterday in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Is there a greatest person described in the published
history books of pan?
In my reading of various published history books both in
hard cover and electronic print, I haven’t come across a writer who describes
either himself or herself or another pers
I wanted Pan enthusiasts take on the five best pan tunes. My list :
Rebecca
Woman on the bass
Pan by Storm
This feeling nice
American patrol
does not matter if it is panorama, festival, bomb, 21st century, just your personal choices. 1 2 3 4 lets
Read more…As I listen to Kim Loy Wong's Hylanders of 1957, and Bertie Marshall's Hylanders of 1964, I'm blown away by the incredible advancements made by the steelband in a relatively short time span of seven years.
Many others may have contributed to the gr
Happy Birthday to Amrit Samaroo from When Steel Talks
We have a few months left before Panorama 2012 so I thought that we could revisit the ground- breaking decision that was made in the medium bands category.
Valley harps created history by being the first band to change the tempo in a panorama tune,
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, US Virgin Islands native Le’Roi Simmonds shares insight on who he is as a musician, how his love for the steelband art form and culture developed, and what it means to him. He also dispenses s
