Vocalist and Performer Edwin Ayoung Speaks on Pan and Steelband Panorama Music Global - Veteran recording artist, composer and performer Edwin “Crazy” Ayoung is one of the most versatile and respected practitioners of the art of singing and composin
Read more…Peace and Pan... From When Steel Talks
Read more…WIADCA delivers the Goods to Steels Orchestra and Masqueraders Fraternity
New York, USA - “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire - Jack Frost nipping at your nose.” Ooops! Got caught up with the moment. Well, what do you expect with the city blanketed
does any body know if 2010 Panorama will be subjected to more idiotic maximum players rules this time? Or is it back to common sense and normality? What I would welcome is a hefty deduction of points for Bands taking too long to set up on stage The
Read more…New York, USA - Indeed the title of this article is a shocker for some. Did an initial set of confusion rush to your brain? Did you rub your eyes twice to check what you were reading? Good!! Ah - but imagine for a moment that twelve months ago famed
Read more…Brooklyn, New York - Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph with Santa in tow were spotted flying over central Brooklyn as part of a detour and music break to catch some prime time steelband music. If the truth be t
Read more…At the moment the Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Symphony Orchestra (TTNSSO) is the only band in the country that use them exclusively. The TTNSSO has had limited public exposure so the population at large cannot form an opinion on the value of t
Read more…London, UK - Caribbean Steel International (CSI) held their second annual Thank You party at the Emerald Centre in Beadon Road, Hammersmith, London, W6 on Friday 4th December 2009. DJs on the night included Martin Jay, Mike Forbes, DSI and W.I Connec
Read more…New York, USA - So it is that time of the year again. The time of year when, like the monitoring of a growing teenager, we get to see the telling notches of growth, progress and success up against the wall - for CASYM Steel Orchestra. At last, it i
Read more…The Association celebrated their annual awards ceremony at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, London. 2009 marked the 11th anniversary of the awards, which was established to celebrate the successes of bands and individuals and, in recognizing excellence
Read more…I am the Manager of PowerStars Steel Orchestra, located at 114 Western Main Road in St. James, POS within the only neighbour block in the world where there are 3 steelbands in 1 block , . We are one of the oldest steelbands in Trinidad & Tobago, Our
Read more…Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, WI - “Panaide - The Benefit Concert” is an event in which sponsored steelbands in Port-of-Spain and environs perform in a showcase with the aim of raising funds to assist the unsponsored bands in that geographical location.
Read more…New York, USA - In closing out what has been one of the most challenging years of its 42 years existence, the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) will distribute prizes to all winners of the annual Labor Day Parade and festival. Th
Read more…hi, all This is my final year in uwi and because of this i have to do a recital. My recital is based on the evolution of the steelpan. I am putting together a concert i march/April nx year as the final showing. In this concert the title is The
Read more…New York, USA - It is a Friday evening in early December in the Kensington part of Brooklyn - actually the center of Brooklyn, and the steelpan is again about to take front and center at the beautiful Calvary Cathedral of Praise. This show is bille
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago - Louise McIntosh, founder of the Pan Pipers Music School in St. Augustine, east Trinidad, passed away last Sunday, September 6. The institution has trained such musicians as Chantal Esdelle, Satanand Sharma and Kwame Ryan. At Pa
Read more…BAS has invited the newly elected President of Pan Trinbago, Mr Keith Diaz, to visit London to meet with bands here – and he’s accepted! Accompanying him will be External Relations Officer, Keith St Cyr, and Secretary, Richard Forteau. This is the fi
Read more…THEME : "Leh we go back, to loving pan." This was a song I had done 10 years ago which was in raw form as a demo with only a melody. It was intended for an album after Passion for Pan, which I never completed. I pulled it out of the cobweb, and the
Read more…Opinion Piece by Michael L. Joseph Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, WI: Today, in this age of National Steel Orchestra / National Steel Symphony, Pan in Schools, the E-pan, the G-Pan, the PHI, the National Youth Steel Orchestra etc; one is still left to won
Read more…Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) delegates attending last Saturday's installment of Parang and Steel concert series staged by PCS Silver Stars Steel Orchestra were given a rousing culture send-off on November 28. click for full story
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