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Liam Teague set to arrange for Starlift Steel Orchestra for Panorama 2011

Hello everyone,

I’ll be arranging for the Starlift Steel Orchestra for Panorama 2011.

 If you’d like to perform with the ensemble, or know of players who would like to be part of theexperience, please contact me at liamteague@hotmail.com

Thanks,

Pamberi Steel Orchestra launches its latest CD “PARIS PAN JAM”

Paris Pan Jam was recorded in France in 2009 when the band did a five-week tour of Europe, and originally released in France this year when the band returned to Europe for two months from May through July.

Last year Pamberi was offered the opportunit

USSA RECIPTION

USSA is having a small reciption on Thursday 8pm at Cafe' Omar. This reciption, is to present to seven of the area steelbands with awards aquired from Dr. Kendall Stewart, he will be making the presentation himself, also USSA will make presentations

FREE - People's Band for 2011

People’s Band for 2011

By Leiselle Maraj Tuesday, November 9 2010

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Savannah tour: Arts and Multiculturalism Minister, Winston Peters, left, chats with chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) Kenny De Silva...

Arts

NIU Steelband 2010 Fall Concert Broadcast in Review

Global - It was 'Live' Pan on the net for almost two hours.  WST (When Steel Talks) just completed taking in a portion of the NIU (Northern Illinois University) steelband concert from DeKalb, Illinois, through the NIU School of Music’s web broadcasti

Pan tunes for 2011

Folks you need to listen to "Land For Pan" by Bodyguard. I think that song has the best chord progression of all the pan songs that I've heard for 2011 so far. It has a lot of musical movements and is the kind of tune any panman would love to play. T

Pan is My Drug

The lyrics brilliantly capture the kind of addiction to Pan experienced by many older generation pan "beaters" of the years stretching roughly from the late 40s to the 60s. It is also very ingenious and shrewd to use drugs as the metaphor of choice.

Put the Steelband back in the Carnival

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Columnist Michael Joseph shares his opinion about Trinidad and Tobago’s planned introduction of the People’s Band on the streets of Trinidad and Tobago for Carnival 2011 as announced by that country’s Minister of Arts and Mu

Kenny J's Discount

Kenny J has again displayed his ingenuity combined with a danceable melody

Pan gorn clear!

Pan gorn clear!

Ontario, Canada - Oh goooode! I get christen over again! Dem pan jumbie hole me in a full Nelson and douse my head in holy water till ah ketch de power an bawl for murderation. Hear nuh man. Talk bout bess? Steupse....it was more dan

Facebook, When Steel Talks, and the Steelpan Music Community

Facebook, When Steel Talks, and the Steelpan Music Community
Social plugins add power to internet Steelpan music experience


Global - When Steel Talks (WST) is committed to ensuring that the global steelpan music community remains a dynamic environm

Has anything changed eleven years later? -- Revisited - The Demise of the Steelband Panorama - and the Possible Solution by Nestor Sullivan

by Nestor Sullivan 

Global - This year, 2010, steelbands in England participating in the Panorama at the Notting Hill Carnival, played for free. That is, the bands received no monies for appearance fees or for prizes. It is reported that this was due

Liam Teague + Robert Chappell - “Open Window”

Global - This collection of music pieces is called “Open Window” and it is quite appropriately so named. You, the listener, are afforded the unique position as an interested, or possibly even originally dispassionate viewer - through this ‘open windo

NIU Steelband Concert November 14th

Hey everyone,

2011 Panorama Tunes Steelband Music Score Sheets

2011 Panorama Tunes Steelband Music Score Sheets

• “A Raging Storm” sung by DeFosto - composed by Winston Scarborough
• “Desperadoes Coming Down” sung by DeFosto - composed by Winston Scarborough
• “How We Coming” sung by Eunice Peters- composed by Alvi

Pan fraternity mourns Cecil Harewood

Pan fraternity mourns Cecil Harewood

Wednesday, November 3 2010

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Keith Diaz, Pan Trinbago President eulogises Cecil Harewood at his funeral at the St Charles RC Church, Tunapuna....

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The late Cecil Ha

PhotoPlus Expo 2010: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in High Relief

New York, USA - Well, the 2010 version of the PDN PhotoPlus Expo is over. The When Steel Talks (WST) crew has headed back to our happy hunting grounds in search of all things steelpan music-related.

....It was clear that awareness of ongoing technol

2010 Autumn Leaves on Steel

Ontario, Canada - Writing a concert review entirely in superlatives may seem overdone, even sycophantic. Yet all those who attended the 2010 Autumn Leaves on Steel in Toronto would agree that each of the four soloists and the band that backed them, w

A World Federation for Pan?

A World Federation for Pan?
Global - Over the last few days there has been much discussion on the When Steel Talks Network over the Nestor Sullivan article “The Demise of the Steelband Panorama - and the Possible Solution.” As a subsequent by-product

In Search of HD for One Million Steelband Music Fans at the 2010 PhotoPlus Expo

New York, USA - ....Max Roach implicitly understood the importance of being able to capture that ‘special moment’ with the best technology available of the day.

....The two main exhibitors we have seen at the 2010 PDN (Photo District News) PhotoPlus