Machel Montano Japan Tour - Aug. 10-15, 2017 Footage from the Yosakoi Festival in Kochi, and concerts at Koza in Nagoya and Club Cactus in Tokyo. Big up Selector Hemo for hosting the journey. Songs: Machel Montano - Waves Machel Montano - Fast Wine M
Read more…Yorshire Evening Post
FRIENDS and colleagues have paid tribute to StClair Morris, who became the first teacher in Leeds to offer instruction in Caribbean-style music played on the steel pan.
Mr Morris, who died last week, had come to Yorkshire from
Read more…The PU Steel Band course will focus on the history and performance practice surrounding the steel drum band and its traditional musics from Trinidad and Tobago. The r
On the day of questions for the USSA board trustees only two persons will be allowed from each band . Members wishing to ask questions can give their questions to the representing captains and managers of the bands to be answered .
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Following the success of their most recent concert in July 2017, the Codrington Pan Family is back with another dynamic night of entertainment for the entire family!
‘De Legacy’ the concert, will be held on Saturday Octobe
Read more…The Herald News
JOLIET – What started as an honors class project for Joliet Junior College student Joseph Garcia and natural sciences professor Dr. Andy Morrison has morphed into a very unique scientific research project, combining science and music.
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On Friday the Sticks ‘n’ Tones steel band defeated six other bands to claim the top spot in Panorama. The keenly contested event came off at the Central Broward Regional Park, and today thousands have returned to the same v
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Following last evening’s staging of We goin’ down Sando steelband concert by the International Steelband Foundation (ISF) at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), the national inst
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Soca artist Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc accompanies Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra, while performing his hit song “Phenomenal” during the International Steelband Foundation concert titled "We Going Down Sando" held a
Winifred Atwell was a Trinbagonian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.
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South Florida Caribbean News
The Melo Groove Steele Orchestra
by Jason Walker
SOUTH FLORIDA – Steel Pan or steel drums were created in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s. The Steel Pan is a unique form of musical expr
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Racine, Wisconsin, USA - Racine’s Festival Hall will become an island oasis on Friday, Oct. 6, when steel drummers from near and far fill it with the unmistakably tropical tones of their music, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The steel dru
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FLASHBACK: Taken in the 1940s, this photograph features Count of Monte Cristo (George Anderson), from left, MacBeth the Great (Patrick MacDonald), The Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson), Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks), Lord Invader
Read more…Trinidad Newsday Editorial
Building our creative sector
Phase II pannist Yohan Chuckaree spoke of the irony that few know where to buy a steel pan, a sign that we have more to do when it comes to distribution of the national instrument. At the same
Read more…Trinidad Express Editorial
NOW nearing the end of its annual two-week run, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2017 has once again brought to light more than 100 fabulous works of the creativity and the artistry of Caribbean peoples on screen, dem
Read more…Dear panlovers:
Over the past three weeks I've tried to use my T&T Guardian column to tell a story of how pan is the remaining heart of the Labour Day Carnival, and the heartbreak of this year's Panorama, that I flew from TTO to NYC for, after missin
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The point of telling a story is the ending. The moral.
Sometimes the end falls out of a story. At times the beginning. Or middle. They have out of so many Caribbean stories, across waters,
Let me tell the story again. How I went Brooklyn. For Pan. Carnival Thursday night. Entering Despers USA’s panyard, I brush past police. On duty. Inside, news spreads. Kathleen Reilly,
I’ll tell the story from where it started. With the full 2 am flight from Piarco to Newark last weekend. By 10, I was in Brooklyn, in my Tobagonian friend’s mother’s apartmen
