This Caribbean singer will make you shake your booty and reject colonialism, all at once. Special thanks to Elechi Todd for the Carnival footage.
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The youth of the Laborie steel pan continue to display their mastery of steelpan music.
Last weekend, ophthalmologist Dr. Emsco Remy made a contribution to the former panorama champions musical journey.
The band remains dedicated to transforming the
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to pan marketing extraordinaire, Israel McLeod.
Seven steel bands took part Saturday in the 2018 St. John Festival Pan O Rama.
Audiences heard music performed by the Bertha C. Boschulte Burning Blazers, St. Thomas All Stars Steel Orch
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to arranger, panist and educator Michelle Huggins-Watts.
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Sandra Blood
Can there be pan without the demonium? Are there ‘demons’ ruling pan – roaming among the pan world hence the bacchanal and confusion from its embryo stage to adulthood, today?
This culture of destructive drama cannot c
Read more…Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. - PAN Man - The Musical is the latest success story in bringing the story of the Pan to the stage through the performing arts.
Part history lesson, part musical,
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Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, is one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges. It is a welcoming community whose members care deeply about the rigorous, challenging, and rewarding life of ideas and principles, and value their exchange and
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San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello
Two months after Old Tech Steel Orchestra was kicked out of its base at the San Fernando West Secondary school, San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello has come to its rescue.
Regrello announced at the San Fernando City
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by Joan Rampersad - Trinidad Newsday
Despite calls from regional heads of Pan Trinbago for Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to get the National Carnival Commission (NCC) to pay panmen directly, she has not
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By South Florida Caribbean News
MIAMI – Caribbean American musician and steel pan protégé, Kobie Alleyne, was selected as a Presidential Scholar at Berklee College of Music commencing this fall, September 2018.
Kobie is a first generation college stu
Read more…Joan Rampersad - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Regional heads of Pan Trinbago want panmen to be paid directly and not through their organisation’s central executive.
Gerard Mendez (North), Marie Toby (Tobago) and Carlon Harewood (East) said so at a pr
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Three regional chairmen of Pan Trinbago yesterday called for the resignation of its central executive and president Keith Diaz, stating that the pan organisation needs to be properly restructured for it to go forward.
The call was made by Tobago’s re
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Martin Daly - Wired 868
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, aged 19, was the cellist at the royal wedding, Saturday before last. Just about the time he was playing Schubert’s Ave Maria, in a setting of style and civility, two things happened.
The first was my train
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The steelpan instrument continues to evolve to keep abreast of the digital era that faces the world in the 21st century that we live in. Steelpan Apps, Blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, G
Global - He is a scholar, an intellect, a musician and a coach - just to name a few. Indeed, depending on when you crossed his multifaceted life, met or engaged him - the name Dave LaBarrie will ring differently to you. He’s been an assistant high
Read more…The Pan Trinbago Act of 1986
