Global- A steel orchestra and trumpet collaboration between Trinidad's Siparia Deltones and world-renowned Hugh Masekela has produced the album “Siparia to Soweto,” now set to launch in May 2014. This trans-Atlantic collaboration between the iconic
I definitely will Nominate George D Goddard aka "The Ghost who Talks" for President of Pantrinbago, he is very Knowledgeable and I believe he will do a Great job (at least better than the present Pres' MR Diaz). I will also give MR Ian Franklin a Po
Toronto, Canada- She fell in love with the steelpan instrument and the power of pan at an early age. She is a founding member of Pan Fantasy Steelband. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation (LSFF) will in May present a concert titled 8 of Hearts at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port-of-Spain. The concert features reigning Na
Can anyone in the pan movement in Ontario, Canada please tell me what is happening to the O.S.A. ( Ontario Steelband Association ). There is absolutely no information on their website, and as a matter
Does anybody knows what happened to Claude Gonzales? This Forum has not seen or heard from him or about him since after the 2014 Steelband Panorama. ALL-POINTS BULLETIN FOR CLAUDE GONZALES.
Pan Trinbago has issued a response to an article published in the Trinidad Guardian of Monday 21 April 2014 under the headline “Pan Trinbago owes pannists $2m for Pan Is Beautiful XII”
It states: “The President of Pan Trinbago, Keith Diaz, communicat
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago still owes $2.1 million in prize money and trophies to steel orchestras and participants of the Pan is Beautiful XII national steelband festival, held in November 2013. Now five months
Been loving 'Street Party' lately...it represents to me the Despers sound and a nostalgic view of Panorama gone by. As Clive Bradley would say Despers was his Pan University.
I happen to stumble upon a video of Utopia Pan Soul playing Vengeance and it put me in a place that made me wonder why is it that most young people in the Mecca don't feel this VIBE, there is nothing like that slow jam.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The names Hugh Borde, Tripoli Steelband and Wladziu “Liberace” Valentino may not be familiar to many young pan musicians, musicians in general or random adults, but to the history of pan, hopefully
“It was like magic” Beijing, China - “It was like magic,” said one of the professors at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology after the performance by the Trinidad & Tobago Chinese Steel Ensemble on the evening of Tuesday April 29.
International Award-Winning Soca Artists Bunji Garlin, Fay Ann Lyons & The Asylum Band speak officially on withdrawing from their advertised 2014 Tobago Jazz Experience performance
Rhode Island, USA- The University of Rhode Island (URI) will present steel pan artist and composer Aaron Abrahamson Cote with his Caribbean Jazz quartet Panoramic View in a free concert on International Jazz Day 2014. The band will feature works com
Brooklyn, New York, USA- Pan and soca featured prominently at this past weekend’s NBA (National Basketball Association) playoffs action in Brooklyn between the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets. These were match-ups three and four in a ‘best of sev
How could any organization receive over two million dollars in donations and sponsorship [$2,834,565 to be exact], to run an event [stated above], and end up with a deficit [in the red] o
Global- Gerry Kangalee is the author of the seminal manuscript titled ‘Out of Pain This Culture was Born’ - which should not only be required reading for anyone involved with the steelpan instrument, but mandatory studying for all Trinidad and Toba
He was born Delyno Brown on August 5th 1981 in Charlotte Amalie, capital city of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands were colonised by the Danes and used for the sugar and slavery trades in the 17th century bef
Global - A steel orchestra and trumpet collaboration between Trinidad's Siparia Deltones and world-renowned Hugh Masekela has produced the album “Siparia to Soweto,” now set to launch in May 2014. This trans-Atlantic collaboration between the iconic
