By Ano Shumba
Music in Africa
his year's International Marimba and Steelpan Festival will be held at St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls in Johannesburg on 28 and 29 July. The event, which joins Nelson Mandela's centenary celebrations, will featur
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Farmingdale, Long Island, NY, USA - Long Island’s own Steel Impressions Steel Band is putting a spotlight on Caribbean culture through music.
The band says they are the only family steel band on Long Island.
O.V. Solomon came
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London’s unsung cultural heroes will be honoured at a major arts festival launching this week.
More than 50 galleries, studios and venues will offer talks, tours and pop-up exhibitions for the Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend. The event, w
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LUCELEC Pantime Steel Orchestra: Did they huddle to pray for a win or for the government to take Panorama more seriously?
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Rain poured in burdensome beads last Friday night as patrons of the annual Panorama competition
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Champion arranger Steve Achaiba has passed. When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Steve Achaiba.
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West Virginia, USA - It's a tropical beat that is recognized all over the world.
The Mannette Festival of Steel being held in Morgantown is exposing the steel pan community to new works of steelband music and providing an opportunity for
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Good music and delicious food is on the menu at the KFC Herald Country Fair
Port Elizabeth, South Africa - Good music and delicious food is on the menu at the KFC Herald Country Fair at Holmeleigh Farmyard on Saturday August 25.
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Barbados, W.I. - Argentinian reggae artiste Fidel Nadal has fallen in love with the sweet sounds of the steel pan after his first visit to Barbados.
Nadal informed Bajan Vibes that he is considering including the piercing sound of th
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North Carolina, USA - Composer and steel pan player Jonathan Scales will release a new album with his Fourchestra outfit, PILLAR, on September 14, and today we premiere one of the record's tracks, "Focus Poem," which features special guest Bé
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New York, USA - In a sky devoid of stars, a lone satellite pulsing brightly moved in over Pantonic’s East Flatbush pan yard, as if to let all know it was reserving an early seat and would be watching everything that transpired on this night, as t |
by Sharmain Baboolal
“It was rumored that Pan Trinbago money went into all the legal fees…..?'
‘Yeah right, Yeah Right,” he said fishing at first for a response to the question sprung on him, sitting on a chair behind a desk full of papers which by
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BTES teacher Ashley Allen needs to raise over $600 to buy two more tenor steel drums for her students.
July is definitely a cultural month in Gauteng as we herald the 7th Education Africa International Marimba & Steelpan Festival.
This month we say goodbye to the World Choir Games and hello to the 7th Education Africa International Marimba and Steelp
New York, USA - One would have thought that there was not enough perfume or rather anything “sweet” smelling enough in the world to erase the stench of the appalling 2017 New York “Fake-O-Rama” held by W.I.A.D.C.A.(West Indian Am
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Bank transfers: Nadia Chase Ali sent large sums of the stolen money to her native Trinidad ( Central News )A finance director who siphoned off almost £800,000 from one of the charities behind Notting Hill Carnival has “betrayed
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© AFP/File | A steel drum band celebrated a Chinese-funded program to replace roofs ripped from more than 300 Barbuda homes by Hurricane Irma last September
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On July 9, 2018, High Court Justice Joan-Charles continued an injunction first granted on May 17, 2018, preventing Mr. Keith Diaz, the President of Pan Trinbago Inc, from summoning a Special Convention of Pan Trinbago for the purpose of amending the
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