Hyattsville, Maryland, USA - On Saturday, December 12th, “one of the best small charities in the Greater Washington region” will host an unforgettable evening of Holiday music featuring a unique and often misunderstood musical instrument. click for
Read more…78 year-old Elton Parks or 'Sackie,' as he's fondly called among the pan fraternity - in an interview with Hollis Clifton - revealed that he had a vision to become a 'calypsonian' and a 'taxi driver.' Both of these were achieved except that he became
Read more…Global - Free from Bondage, Writers Flex Creative Muscle. Leading the charge is none other than veteran performers and stalwarts - steelband music song writers like Crazy, The Original DeFosto Himself, Designer, Destra, “Smooth,” Goddard and many ot
Read more…Steelpan & Parang at St. Gregory’s New York, USA - If you are going to spend the holiday season in New York, you are sure to be able to catch a steelband music concert. The first of a series of such concerts took place at St. Gregory's in Brooklyn o
Read more…Antigua & Barbuda, WI - Hardly a country in the world can say that it has not been impacted in some way by the severe downturn in the economy within the last twelve months. With several businesses reeling from the effects of this still-ongoing circ
Read more…Hi there friends, Show 8 is now on-line. This month is dedicated to Mr Len Boogsie Sharpe and his outburst at Pantrinbago's then president Patrick Arnold. I was going to pull the show but i strongly feel that Boogsie should be the person to take ove
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New York, USA - Imagine the great Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, champion arranger for the famed Phase Two Pan Groove conducting an intense panorama practice on a hot Summer night with New York’s Moods Pan Groove at their Brooklyn panyard. Mr. Sharpe is givin
Brads Remembered; November 26, 2005 -- The pan world has lost it's signature voice. Bradley embodied the spirit of panorama. It's inconceivable to envision panorama without him. Somewhere seeping through the canopies, you'll hear echoes of his artis
Read more…St. Vincent & The Grenadines, WI. - CELEBRATE! with Starlift and friends is a concert that brings together the steel pans of St. Vincent’s 42-year old Starlift Steel Orchestra and the harmonies of the mixed New Kingstown Chorale and the all-female ch
Read more…New York, USA - First off: Jonathan Scales is a bad man. He traveled for 12 hours from South Carolina to drop his brand of Jazz /rock/fusion in New York at “The Shrine” in Harlem for a six o’clock performance. If you are going to perform musically in
Read more…what is the yardstick used in relation to considering a song a pan song is it a song composed with lyrics about the instruments or is it a song composed with chord structures which take into consideration the present range available on the modern ins
Read more…Champion Steelband Arranger Yohan Popwell in the Spotlight New York, USA - He is the arranger for one of the top steel orchestras in America, Sonatas. And in 2009 he made a clean sweep by capturing championship titles in steelband music Panoramas i
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It has been 48 hours since the Friday the 13th Steelband Massacre when the NYC pan community was body slammed and kicked in the ass. They lost their lollypop and all their panorama prize money - thousands of dollars worth, that is. Quite frankly, no
New York, USA - Yesterday was an added triple treat - WST (When Steel Talks) not only got to check out the newly renovated New York State Theater (David H. Koch Theater) at Lincoln center but we also got to see one of our own favorite daughters of pa
Read more…last night the was a meeting with wiadca to tell the steel band and mas men\women that there are no moneys to be paid because the sponsors did not come through with their money???? here we go again and to make matters worst not one of those bands mem
Read more…Andre, what is fonclaire doing,who is arranging? Do you know lio jagessar? I'm a good friend of his.
Read more…Rhythm Café Steel Drums: A Community Celebration taking place on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Washington, DC from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The feature presenter, Dr. Kim Johnson, is a leading researcher on steel
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Antigua & Barbuda, USA - There are few - if any - steelpan music greats that can claim that a sitting Prime Minister spoke at their funeral.
On November 13, 2008 Antigua and Barbuda national cultural icon and Harmonites pan player Leroy 'Jughead'
