When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Despers USA - on the passing of their long-time bass player popularly known as “Keith” Incherry Hunt. He is dearly missed.
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - President of Pan Trinbago and the executives of Pan Trinbago were in high spirits last Thursday evening when they attended the official announcement of Newtown Playboys Steel Symphony acquiring s
Read more…When Steel Talks extends best wishes to Dr. Mia Gormandy on her ascension.
By:Curtis Morton
Charlestown-Nevis—A brief but significant ceremony, was held at the Bath Hotel, on Thursday 14th December.
The ceremony which was ably chaired by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mr. Kevin Barrett, effectively broug
Read more…For Dale and Mary King and their sons, the annual Tri-Cities Steel Band Association holiday concert isn’t merely a fun evening filled with music.
It’s also a beloved family tradition.
The Kings, who live north of Pasco, have been part of the associa
Read more…Brooklyn, New York, USA - It was real cold - well below freezing outside in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on what had been a Fall evening, but inside 333 Lounge the temperature was rising. The Art—an organization that is dedicated to providing new and upcomi
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In addition to being “a nice way to highlight the steelpan at a different level,” Paninclusive—Pan Lime in D City, presented by Epic Events & Marketing Solutions, is offering a scholarship for a
Read more…Trinidad Guardian
The National Carnival Commission (NCC) has a little over a month to pay Pan Trinbago the $3 million in ticket sales it collected for this year’s Panorama competition.
High Court judge Vasheist Kokaram made the order in the Hall of
Read more…The executive board of USSA invites the pan fraternity to a meeting at Sesame Flyers offices at 3508 Church Ave at 7.30pm on Monday 18th December
Martin Douglas
President
NOTICE OF MEETING
TO ALL MEMBERS
Notice is hereby given that a Meeting will be held on Sunday 17th December, 2017 at our new rehearsal venue situated at Nos. 2-4 Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain, beginning at 10:00am.
Respectfully yours, Desperadoes
PressConnects
A couple years after Joel Smales heard Ithaca College's Steel Band,he bought a steel pan of his own to play along with Binghamton High School's Jazz Ensemble.
"Everybody loved it," said Smales, a music teacher at the school. "I got some
Read more…The Hamilton Spectator
Ontario, Canada - Dejehan Hamilton broke new ground five years ago by becoming one of the first students at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music to claim the steel pan as his principal instrument.
Now, Hamilton — born
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Members of Desperadoes Steel Orchestra on location at the old Government Printery site at Tragarete Road, Port of Spain, yesterday.
GARY CARDINEZ
Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is on the move again. On Monday members of the s
Read more…reviews a book by musician and political activist David Randall that looks at the role music can play in making social change.
Steel pan musicians march in Port of Spain, Trinidad
IN SOUND System: The Political Power
Trinidad Newsday
...This all-inclusive fete is scheduled for the Government Campus Plaza on Richmond Street in Port of Spain on February 4, and will feature pan music in a big way. That aspect of Carnival had died over the years with pan music being
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By MARTHA CLIFF FOR MAILONLINE
Queen Maxima showcased her musical talents as she took part in a steel pan workshop shelters at the Festival Center, Sint Maarten
She is well-known for her enthusiastic approach to her engagements so it was no surpri
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