Stefon WestTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Stefon West is the 2024 Panorama arranger of La Horquetta (LH) Pan Groove - Small band category. Their 2024 Tune of choice: “Spring Garden on Fire.”
Read more…There are so many conflicting narratives even though we had (and still have) live eyewitnesses to this very recent history. Sometimes you get the feeling that every EGO wants to be THE ONE to tell the tale and dismissal of all other voices has become
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....The fish broth story is connected to Invaders, which had a legendary musical rivalry with All Stars in the 1950s and 1960s.
Invaders have been present at their Tragarete Road location since 1941. There wer
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England, U.K. - Fascinated with the steelpan instrument from an early age - the musically gifted Delphina taught herself to read music. In an exclusive with W
I was making a cursory check on YOUTUBE to see which PAN PERFORMANCES had the most views and the results should serve as a WAKE UP CALL to our (we so talented) SUBJECTIVE PAN COMMUNITY especially since THE GOVERNMENT spends over $100,000,000 a year s
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- “At 5 years old, my parents took me to Renegades’ panyard and I was totally mesmerized by the level of complexity and difficulty of Dr. Jit Sukha Samaroo’s music. This compelled me to want to grow up to become a Renegade t
He was one of the brothers who took all of Roland’s pans to Rudolph Charles to hear once completed.
Gary Harrigin was also ver
But the only thing They never make in town As yet is a machine gun ... PROPHESY IN CALYPSO!!!
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Global - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival Schedule of Events. Info on the activities for the 2024 steelband music season: dates, times, judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals competitions, event venues, and more, as avai
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sunday September 24, 2023, features a J‘Ouvert celebration of ‘Steelbands on the Road’ for Republic Day in Trinidad & Tobago. Bands expected
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Belize, S.A. - Pan Yaad ‘23 which was held at the Government House on Regent Street, Belize City.
The crowd was bigger than in recent memory - where a mature audience danced until after midnight to the shimmering sounds of steel drum.
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In a move to bring pan into the Kafe, soca icon and businessman Carl Jacobs has come up with a series of events titled Steel Plus.
Jacobs said the intention is to make the national instrument a
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The Beach-Nuts — Out In The Sun (Hey-O)
New York, USA - When songwriter and record producer Bob Feldman passed away Aug. 23 at the age of 83, we lost another giant of 1960s Brill Building pop.
Born in Brooklyn to Orthodox Jewish pa
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There are exciting times ahead for pan but the road won’t be easy.
This is according to Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore (pictured), who said she was pleased the authorities are showing int
Read more…Video announcement about Steel Pan classes in Toronto and Brampton, Canada! Click: https://youtu.be/TuYFopbRu3c?si=uHe51oKpqNb7xQkp
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A Marathon student practices on the steel drumsFlorida, USA - The Florida Keys have rich, feel-good, island-inspired musical roots, from Coffee Butler and Howard Livingston to Key West’s adopted son, Jimmy Buffett, who died Sept. 1
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