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.
See more on Ralph Davis
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
Read more…Meet Daneisha Frederick
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “At 5 years old, my parents took me to Renegades’ panyard and I was totally mesmerized by the level of complexity and difficulty of Dr. Jit Sukha Samaroo’s music. This compelled me to want to grow up to become a Renegade t
Trinidad Express
Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon, second left-front row, along with Finance Minister Colm Imbert, right, and Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Community Development, fourth right, at the launch of Live Music Districts in Port of
Trinidad Newsday
Marc Mahase receives the Newdsay Cup from Leslie Alfonso after topping the Acoustic Guitar Solo class at the Music Festival at Queen’s Hall on Friday.
GARY CARDINEZ
THE sweetness of TT’s music rang through Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s on
Read more…Meet Tashie LeMaitre
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “I will always have a passion for steelpan because it is engrained in my DNA. It is an incredible art that was created out of brillian
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Meet Nicole Archer
Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Playing pan is my therapy, my ultimate relaxation, my one constant throughout the years. I don’t think I can properly explain the feeling
Was honored to be a guest artist last night at McCallum Fine Arts Academy in Austin, TX. I’m lucky to experience these great moments in my life, but believe me...the pendulum swings equally to the other side. Thank you to everyone who has been, is,
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Music Festival adjudicator Belinda Mikhail critiques the performances yesterday at the Naparima Bowl in San Fernando.
YVONNE WEBB
YOUNG people continued to shine yesterday as they showcased their talents in the final leg of the preliminaries of th
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