(Watch) Documentary “Takopera Ô Katá” portrays theatrical work by world renowned percussionist and panist Sérgio Boré

Documentary “Takopera Ô Katá” portrays theatrical work by Sérgio Boré

Sergio Boré & Tambores Urbanos

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Remembering the Late Great Karen Codrington Matriarch of the Codrington Pan Family

 Karen Codrington matriarch of the Codrington Pan Family

“It is very challenging juggling the different roles as a house-wife, mom, and musician. For example, sometimes I might be practicing at the pan yard while at the same time worrying about the

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How an Impossible Steel Drum Gets Built

The New Yorker - By Richard Preston

Five years ago, Josh Quillen, a member of Sō Percussion, a Brooklyn-based music ensemble, spoke with a maker and tuner of steel drums named Kyle Dunleavy about building a potentially unworkable design. Musical ste

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NCC Welcomes Newly Appointed Board of Commissioners

Port of Spain, Trinidad, November 24, 2021 The National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago (NCC) proudly welcomes the recent reinstatement of the Board of Commissioners, following the official announcement from the Minister of Tourism, Cultur

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The Lydians (Trinidad and Tobago) Hallelujah Chorus - Handel's Messiah

"Hallelujah Chorus" - The Lydians production of Handel's Messiah

Handel's Messiah (2009)
Queen's Hall Auditorium, St. Anns,
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean)

The Lydians and Lydians Steel
Musical Director: Dr. Patricia Bishop
Accompanists:

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Dr. Merle Albino-de Coteau is owed by the Ministry and she needs help.

 

 

Dr. Merle Albino-de Coteau is a retired Director of Culture, in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Women's Affairs. She is asking the Senator, the Honourable Donna Cox, appointed as Senator and Minister of Social Development and

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Remembering Some of Those In Pan We’ve Lost in 2021 - Panist, composer & Champion arranger Lennox “Bobby” Mohammed of Cavaliers Steel Orchestra

 
Lennox “Bobby” Mohamed (Mohammed)

Panist, composer & Champion arranger Lennox “Bobby” Mohammed of Cavaliers Steel Orchestra passed on May 25, 2021 - see more  -- Born - January 2, 1942

Often when we talk about the steelpan music movement we forget

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No pan in schools, no money for Junior Panorama and no word from Beverley Ramsey Moore.

by Gerard Mendez

Gerard Mendez

Over two months now, all but a couple employees (most of whom are Pannists), from the Multicultural Music Programme Unit (MMPU), a facet of the Ministry of Education (MOE), formally known as Pan In The Classroom Proje

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Meet Hope Munro Smith of - California State University, Chico, CA

Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

 

Trinidad Á Tobago - With a genuine interest in the contributions of women to music globally she fell deeply in love with Trinidad and Tobago's culture, music and Pan. She is a steelpan musician, autho

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In Memoriam of James “Jimmy” Leyden - founder of Calliope′s Children Steel Orchestra

In Memoriam of James “Jimmy” Leyden - founder of Calliope′s Children Steel Orchestra

by Dr. Daniel Harrison

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

©2021  When Steel Talks.  All rights reserved

...When I joined for the 1974–75 school year, Jimmy was rehearsing

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Calliope's Children Steel Orchestra

The Calliope's Children Steel Orchestra toured Russia and Poland in 1975 and 1977. Here they are performing Chorale-Cantata # 130 by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... click for more info http://www.panonthenet.com/news/2011/mar/layden/Calliopes-Children-S

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Streaming Services and the Artist by Leon Foster Thomas

These streaming services are not really pushing for folks to buy an artist's music. Instead, their main push is for you to purchase a subscription to THEIR (spotify, apple etc...) streaming service. Per stream, an artist recoups $0.00676 (google) wh

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Reboot - Joker, the Bard of Trinidad by Raffique Shah

published with the expressed permission of the author  
(Originally published in the Sunday Express)

© 2021 -  All Rights Reserved

I imagine that like me, most calypso aficionados first became aware of the existence of the late Winsford ‘Joker’ Devi

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SONGS (CALYPSOS) WRITTEN by WINSFORD DEVINE -- PRAISE THE LIVING!!!

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Mister Randall Mitchell, send help for unsponsored steelbands please.

Mister Randall Mitchell, send help for unsponsored steelbands please.

Open letter to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Mister Randall Mitchell.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Much thanks and appreciation for the reopening of the Cultural Relief

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Robbie Shakespeare, Legendary Bass Player Who Formed Sly & Robbie, Dies at 68

Billboard

Robbie Shakespeare, the two-time Grammy Award-winning bass player, record producer, and one half of the iconic rhythm section Sly & Robbie, died Wednesday (Dec. 8) at the age of 68.

The late musician is remembered as one of the all-time gr

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ADVICE TO THE NEW TOBAGO THA EXECUTIVE: SET UP A PAN PRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL ZONE!!!

ME and KEITH DIAZ talked about it and proposed this idea years ago.

Instead of sending young, wayward unemployed youths to PRISON -- you set up a CENTRAL PAN PRODUCTION AREA and put these YOUNG MEN to learn to MAKE QUALITY PANS. You bring in EXPAT PA

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‘They’re enjoying themselves a bit too much!’: the steel band leader getting Stockport dancing

The Guardian - Sirin Kale

Janice Turley runs the steel band for the visually and hearing impaired in Stockport every Tuesday. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

When Janice Turley was 39, she was focused on her career as a teacher – perhaps a l

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WHAT A THA VICTORY SPEECH!!! TAKE A BOW FARLEY!!! I ready to go PLANT PEAS IN TOBAGO ...

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BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE gone in a PNM MEETING in BLACK ROCK/PLYMOUTH and then she gone licking up to DUKE before and after that ...

That is the kind of HYPOCRITICAL LEADERSHIP that BERTEL GITTENS and CECIL HINKSON want in PAN TRINBAGO? But ROWLEY done get the score that she playing BOTH SIDE so the talk is that they going and CUT BACK on MONIES to PAN TRINBAGO. Who will suffer? P

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