Canada - The performance of ‘Esso Tripoli Steelband’, Trinidad and Tobago’s representative of the nation musical heritage for Canada’s centennial celebration ‘Expo 67’ in Montreal was a watershed moment in North American culture and arts. Canada's Ca
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Mavis Staples performs at the Richmond Folk Festival in 2018. (Photo by Dave Parrish courtesy Vance Agency)
Previous festivals have included R&B singer Mavis Staples, country musician Roseanne Cash, saxophonist Maceo Parker, the Filipino gong orche
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The TDSB recently slashed funding for the itinerant music instructor (IMI) program at 227 schools. IMI includes instruction on steel pan, string instruments and band for students in grades 5 to 8.
The cut amounts to a 24 per cent
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Marigot, St. Maarten - Tributes will be pouring in today for the birthday of Lino Hughes, leader of the iconic bands “Creole Stars” and “Lino and the Hardway” that dominated the island’s musical scene in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Read more…When Steel Talks extends our sincere congratulations. We are so proud of you.
Officially a Professor at Berklee College of Music.
Steelpan Instructor.
My goal is to make Berklee’s steelpan program #1 in the world without question.
It will take time
"Twinkle Twinkle little star" arranged for sight reading and orchestration practice.
Each 4-measure phrase contains a change in texture, voicing, key, and counterpoint.
Brooklyn, New York, USA - -What an incredible morning at Meyer Levin Junior High School in Brooklyn! New York City students are incredible and these 7th graders were no exception.... Chirlane McCray
Listen to Steel Orchestra perform "Lift Every Voic
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Brooklyn, New York, USA - Some days start with a school bell. Others start with the sound of the steelpan drum.
It's a typical morning at Meyer Levin Junior High in East Flatbush. Students get a chance to dance, celebrate birthdays, cheer acc
Read more…When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to champion Panorama arranger Terrance “BJ” Marcelle
Australian singer-songwriter Sia’s soulful vocals are manipulated in explosive style by Exemen. The London DJ-producer exploits UKG’s textual potential, with the drop from light steel pan melodies to grimy sub-bass rhythm around 40 seconds in probab
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Nailah BlackmanのバックでSTARS ON PANからさねちゃん、いぶちゃんと自分で演奏しました！スタパンの次のライブは絶対この曲やろ
昨日の様子をちょっとだけ
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to champion Panorama arranger Duvone Stewart.
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Etobicoke parent Syma Saleem says she’s incredibly disappointed and frustrated that her son Hussain, who just started Grade 6 at his middle school, is facing a one-third reduction in enriched music instruction there.
Saleem and other Toronto Distric
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New York, USA - CASYM Inc. — home of the award-winning steelpan ensemble — is starting u
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin
“On this day in 1976, I was in the studios in Montreux Casino with John Bonham and engineer John Timperley to record Bonzo’s Montreux. I had recently acquired an innovative piece of equipment, the Eventide
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Photograph: MARK JAMES
The music is attracting renewed interest. “There has been a great transformation,” Nanan says. “Many more teenagers and young adults are playing than ever. More girls.” Public relations m
Read more…"Life is Rhythm": Basic Rhythm notation Steelpan series in partnership with Achievement First Charter and sponsored by Brooklyn council of the Arts.
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Cayman Compass
Cayman Islands - Governor Martyn Roper continued his steel pan tour of the island on Wednesday.
The governor’s Caribbean stylings have been in high demand since he premiered his secret musical talents for the Queen’s Birthday in Jun
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of musicologist, recording artist, band leader, composer and author extraordinaire Aldwin Albino.
On Thursday, September 12, 2019, Aldwin Gilbert Albino passed away peacefully at the age
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