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New York, USA - Two Crown Heights venues where locals practice and prepare for J'Ouvert and other West Indian American Day Carnival
Despers USA Steel Orchestra musicians have recorded their Panyard performance of their 2017 NY Panorama selection, with a live audience looking on.
Two [Despers USA and CASYM] Basement Recordings Panyard recording sessions down, three more schedul
CASYM Steel Orchestra musicians have recorded their Panyard performance of their 2017 NY Panorama selection, with a live audience looking on.
Two [Despers USA and CASYM] Basement Recordings Panyard recording sessions down, three more scheduled to go
Steel pan drummers (from left) Michael Edwards, 20, Jordan Cato, 17, and Kaila Charles, 16, play in the rain at practice for the Panorama tournament on Saturday.
CROWN HEIGHTS — It was a cold and rainy night in Bro
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By Stephen Spark
Photographer Stephen Spark
Only Ebony and Nostalgia, plus a couple of iron bands – that was the sad reality that greeted the thousand or so revellers at 6am waiting expectantly for some steelpan to accompany the important bus
It’s a new sign of change, but the festival is staying the same.
Earlier this week the city’s police commissioner and the mayor announced that J’ouvert — the annual pre-dawn festive Labor Day parade — will see stricter security regulations similar
Read more…Sesame Flyers International Incorporated, a youth organization whose “Love A Kid Today and Every Day program has served more than 700,000 children in 23 countries over the years, received a big financial boost from the Canarsie Branch of Capital One
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By Tyrell Gittens Monday, August 28 2017
Speaking at Saturday’s launch of the National Steel Pan Manufacturing Journeyman Programme in Macoya, Secretary of the Steel Pan Tuners’ Guild of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Duncan revealed t
Read more…Basement 2017 Panyard Recordings
Wednesday August 30th:
Thursday August 31st
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- 9:30 p.m. - D’Radoes Stee
#CarnivalMonday #BigPeopleTime #PartyCaribbean
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With our state of the art recording facilities on site here at ICMP, it’s unsurprising that we often usher many major musicians and performers of all kinds through the doors.
Back in July Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy passed through to get some last
Earlier, the carnival got under way with a traditional paint fight.
The tradition, known as Jouvert, meaning "open of the day", sees revellers hurl paint at each other which dancing to steel bands and African drummers.
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London’s biggest outdoor event Notting Hill carnival has begun with a tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.
This year’s festival, a celebration of Caribbean culture and traditions which began in 1966, took place in the shadow of
Read more…Ebony Steelband is the 2017 UK Panorama champion with arranger Duvone Stewart.
London, United Kingdom - The hugely-popular and community-supported annual UK Panorama played out successfully on August 26th to the delight of pan music lovers.
....Defending champs Ebony Steelband, ninety-players strong, returned to the winner’s s
Read more…The Copper Steel Band turns 30 this October 18 and is already a symbol of Santiago and Cuba "
If Santiago de Cuba is the Capital of the Caribbean with all its singularities, and the Feast of Fire is the moment where the
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