Trinidad Guardian
Eighty–year-old Daisy James-McClean, leader of the Harlem Syncopators Steel Orchestra, sacrificed and saved over the years using her pension money to buy the land where the band is on at Quarry Street, Port-of-Spain.
The sub
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Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra from Black Rock, Tobago.
With one month to go before Carnival, Pan Trinbago President Beverly Ramsey-Moore says her band, Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, like many of its counterparts, needs support for
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Recording Artist | Pannist | Percussionist | Composer | Arranger | Educator
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Leon Foster Thomas is a gifted international jazz musician and steel pan virtuoso who blends
the music of his Caribbean roots with the harmonic and impr
Records by the late Panist, arranger and educator STEVE ACHAIBA
First person to win a National Panorama both as a player and arranger
1968 - Played in Guinness Cavaliers under Lennox “Bobby” Mohammed
1975 – Leader and arranger of Ma
San Juan Eastside Symphony San Juan Eastside Symphony Wins Championship Single Pan Band Title
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Victorious San Juan East Side Symphony did the East region proud on February 3, and bested nineteen fellow participants in the S
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Pannists suffer poor posture, muscle strains
PAN players, both young and not so young, agree that playing the national instrument is out of love, but what does that love cost, physically?
Sunday Newsday met with physical therapist Dr Nicole De Freit
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WITH a mere 15 per cent of the 147 bands registered for Panorama 2019 having the financial support of a title sponsor, guava season economic conditions are hitting the steelband movement hard and forcing a collecti
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The Tokyo Steel Orchestra will not be competing in this year's Panorama competition, in large part due to a used-car dealer from the John John area allegedly refusing to remove dozens of vehicles from their pan yar
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Education Minister, Anthony Garcia stands proudly next to members of the St Margaret's Anglican Boys Primary School, as they played a pan rendition at yesterday's launch of the National Schools Panorama 2019 at the Queen's Park Sav
That one time my band was on a TV show Despers Us Steel! Go check out High Maintenance on HBO season 3 episode 2 and check out our lil cameo! #DespersUSA --- Aliandre C. Maraj
I have just finished reading an article from the former public affairs manager of the sponsor of the now 'homeless' Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. The piece sounds like nostalgia for the good ole days a la Mary Hopkins song Those were the days my frien
Trinidad Guardian
Blue Diamonds Steel Orchestra’s captain Wayne St Clair Babb, centre, and secretary Judith Chambers, right, chat with Machel Montano’s mother Elizabeth Montano at their office on the corner of Queen and Gordon Street, Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -The appearance order for the twenty finalists in the National Panorama Single Pan Band finals has been released by Pan Trinbago, after eight days of preliminary single pan competition in the North, East, South/Central and To
Trinidad Newsday
San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello
“If this course of action by the NCC continues along this path I am certain the disruption to Carnival in San Fernando will progress to a point where there may not be Carnival celebra
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Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore said despite all the challenges facing the organisation, she and her team would find a way to make this year’s Panorama competition and experience a success.
She ad
Read more…Nadia Batson is moved to tears of joy at Trinidad All Stars panyard after hearing her 2019 hit "So Long" being played by the iconic steel orchestra.
The steelband movement has lost yet another icon with the passing of Dr. Clifford Alexis.
Mrs. Beverley Ramsey-Moore, President of Pan Trinbago, has expressed her deepest condolences to his immediate family and that of the steelpan fraternity. Mrs. R
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