Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “My vision is for Trinidad & Tobago to embrace the steelpan instrument and we can make the steelpan industry become as lucrativ
Read more…Meet Ivor Shatal Francis
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Meet Kayleigh Lewis
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“I love pan because of the way it makes me feel when I play and listen. Its pure vibes. In addition to this, the relationships and friends I’ve made through pan are really something special and totally irreplaceable. Pan has opened up a whole new wo
“I would love for the instrument to be as mainstream as the piano, guitar or violin. It may have a ways to go, being a fairly young creation, but I believe pan can progress, develop and infiltrate music of all
Read more…Marcus Miller on Ralph MacDonald's Legacy
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A When Steel Talks Exclusive
France - “In France steelpan is quite unknown. Except with steelpan players, I have to explain quite every time what steelpan is. In general people are interested and don’t un
Read more…by Sandra Blood
Is there an elite realm of pan?
How should an elite steel orchestra be characterised? Does T&T comprise elite steel orchestras – yielding Bach, Beethoven or Tchaikovsky-quality music worthy of concert fees being $1,500 or US$250 per e
Read more…Meet Shannon Mc David - Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago - “I must say performing on a Panorama stage is the most invigorating experience. I feel such a thrill - like there's an energy running through my veins the second the stick touches the p
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Meet Nandia Hamilton 
New York, USA - “What disappoints me is when people think pan is just a set of noise rather than hearing the beauty in the music.”
She is focused, has a vision for
Read more…by Shareen Gray
The trend for UK pan players attending Trinidad Carnival to take part in their Panorama has been happening for decades. Shamefully – as a steelpan industry person – I hadn’t attended until this year, and this was a spontaneous trip ma
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “My love for music and the instrument keeps me going, together with the adrenaline rush and new upcoming challenges which a Panorama piec
PanTrinbago President Keith Diaz.
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday - Joan Rampersad
TENSION is rising Pan Trinbago’s head office. Sources told Newsday, president Keith Diaz is practically working on his own since other executive officers are hardly in
Read more…Congratulations to Panist and Educator Liam Teague
Liam Teague has been named an NIU Presidential Research, Artistry, and Scholarship Professor. This is one of the highest honors that the university bestows on faculty. In awarding him this professo
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Indiana, USA - “....Playing with others who play steel pan is really where I find my true happiness, whether it is a duo or a small group of steel pan players, or a band in Trinidad...”
A voice with uncommon beauty spoke to her years ago. It was i
Read more…New York - October 1, 2004
What if we could take you back to the beginnings of the pan movement, and have you relive the experience as if you were actually there? Hear about the iron fist of the legendary Rudolph Charles, and laugh about, yet list
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When Steel Talks extends our deepest sympathy to family and friends of Ralph Davis. He was a Desperadoes Steel Orchestra and Pantonic Steel Orchestra founding member. A true warrior for Pan. He will be missed.
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Read more…A sad day for pan. Though he mostly worked in the background he was a strong advocate for pan in schools and worked hard reviving La Brea Nightingale. Sad to know such a conscious and loving man is now gone. One of the latest murder victims in this
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Enfants et jeunes des centres sociaux et maisons de quartier ont offert vendredi une démonstration de steel drum sur l’esplanade du port de Vannes. Ils ont répété pendant trois jours de stage coordonnées par le Conservatoire et animés par la compagn
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