Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sheer exuberance of the youth in Steel was in full effect - from 10:00 a.m. straight through 7:50 p.m. AST (Atlantic Standard Time) on Sunday January 14, as part of Trinidad & Tobago’s 2024 National Panorama season. For all
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - 2024 Junior National Schools Panorama perform in competition on Sunday January 14.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steel orchestras from twelve Primary and ten Secondary schools, along with ten ‘21 and Under’ bands, compete for titles in their respective categories. These junior steel orchestras are having their own chances at steelban
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The long hours of practice put into the 2024 season by New East Side Dimension Steel Orchestra paid off big time, in the form of the top prize of TT $400,000.00 (circa USD $59,000.00), the championship trophy, and bragging
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago’s New East Side Dimension Steel Orchestra has maintained its lead coming out of the preliminaries and going into the home stretch of competition on final night, Friday January 12. Skinner Park in San Fernando, south
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fifteen bands are on their way to the final night competition on January 12, in the Small steel orchestra category of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. Just before 1:40 a.m. local time, Fascinators Pan Symphony
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The thirty small steel orchestras which qualified for the semi-finals in their category after panyard judging in December 2023, make their next musical moves on Saturday January 6, 2024. The venue for this phase of competit
Read more…Ricardo Drue, 38, died on Tuesday (December12, 2023) in Antigua, reports said. The Antiguan soca star, was known for hits such as Socaholic, Vagabond and Professional, and for being a staunch supporter of the steelband art form.
Ricardo Drue
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The preliminaries in the Small steel orchestra category of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama are now complete. Beginning December 7 and ending December 17, the steel orchestras from four regions–Tobago, North, E
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The annual Panorama season is underway in the nation, and the competition on for 2024.
Determined to score a hat-trick—three consecutive titles—are title defenders in this Small conventional steel orchestra category - Up
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eleven small steel orchestras from the South/Central region close off the preliminaries in the the category for the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. Spread over three evenings, the bands represent the fourth regio
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Three consecutive nights of steelpan music will thrill pan lovers, when fifteen small steel orchestras from the Eastern region are featured. It would be the third leg of preliminary competition in the respective category o
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Ten small steel orchestras continue in the preliminary phase of competition in the small conventional category of the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. Highlighted this time are the talents of panists in bands from
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eight small steel orchestras compete over two nights in their respective category, in the 2024 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. Judges will take in the performances of four bands each night.
Thursday December 7, 2023
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our sympathy to the family and friends of Earl Rodney on his passing.
He is one of the esteemed champion arrangers of the Golden Era of Pan.
Read more…
Carlton “Zanda” Alexander on keys with Tokyo membersTrinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tokyo Steel Orchestra takes this opportunity to officially announce to members of the steelband fraternity, that preparations are on-going for the band’s participation i
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Another Single Pan Band season in Trinidad and Tobago’s annual National Panorama is in the history books. The 2023-2024 wrap up saw last year’s champions Chord Masters Steel Orchestra taking a consecutive title on the Sunda
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The final twenty Single Pan bands vying for the championship and first prize purse of TTD $275,000.00 (circa USD $40,758.00) in this category, will lay down their best performances yet on Sunday December 3. There, nineteen
Read more…
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Title defender Chord Masters Steel Orchestra maintains its lead after its delivery of champion arranger André White’s ‘Doctor Cassandra,’ at the end of the ’level playing field’ that was the (2023) 2024 Single Pan semi-fin
East Phonics Steel Orchestra Gets It All Going
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thirty semi-finalists in the Single Pan category of the annual National Panorama organized by Pan Trinbago, will each take the stage in their effort to move on to the finals,
