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 expression, but the origin of steel pan started centuries before in Africa.
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NCC: Panmen to be paid by month’s end
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Panmen who were not paid their stipend for their appearance in the 2017 Panorama competition should be paid by the end of this month says National Carnival Commission (NCC) Chairman Kenny De Silva
Read more…Steel pan is flourishing, but it needs money – Khan Cordice
(Photo source: voices.nationalgeographic.org)
The Musical Director of the steel band that won the 2017 Panorama competition feels that while the steel pan art form is flourishing, it will not survive without the money that it needs.
Khan Cordice di
Read more…Hells Gate Wins Antigua & Barbuda's 2017 National Panorama
When Steel Talks extends congratulations to Antigua's 2017 Panorama Champions - Hells Gate.
Click for article, full results - http://www.panonthenet.com/news/2017/aug/antigua-panorama-results-8-8-2017.htm
No Transportation to Antigua & Barbuda National Steelband Panorama - Panache Push Racks Miles to Carnival City
St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Panache Steel Orchestra, first-time entrant in Antigua & Barbuda’s National Panorama competition in 2017, was apparently left stranded. With no means of transporting their racks and instruments to the competitio
Read more…Watch Live Stream -- Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra & QRC Steelpan Ensemble - Free Millennium Stage Performance
Time: August 3, 2017 from 6pm to 7pm
Location: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Live Stream - Antigua 2017 Carnival
Party Monarch Competition
Panorama 2017 Antigua & Barbuda -- Part 2
Panorama 2017 Antigua & Barbuda -- Part 1
Jr. Calypso Monarch
Read more…Pan prodigy needs monetary assistance for music studies
Aviel Scanterbury needs significant funds to pay for his postgraduate studies in jazz at George Mason University in the US. PHOTO: WESLEY GIBBINGS
Twenty-three year old Aviel Scanterbury is considered by some to be a musical prodigy with a stri
Read more…Antigua and Barbuda Panorama 2017 - Order of Appearance
1. Panache Steel Orchestra
2.Harmonites Steel Orchestra
3.Halcyon Steel Orchestra
4.Westside Symphony Steel Orchestra
5.Original Steel Orchestra
6.Gemonites Steel Orchestra
7.Ebonites Steel Orchestra
8.East Vibes Steel Orchestra
9.Hells Gate Stee
NSSO Pushing Pan - Beyond Boundaries
by Frank Philip
After hearing the National Steel Symphony Orchestra play ‘Ashley’ by Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, I went to the internet to see if there were any other versions. The four that were available were all very good but none achieved the virtuosi
Read more…Campers show off pan skills
Nation News - Barbados - ALEX DOWNES
The intermediate group performing reggae medley. (Picture by Alex Downes.)
EVEN WITH THE National Cultural Foundation (NCF) pouring its resources into CARIFESTA, there was still space for the yearly Youth Pan Pro
Read more…Minister wants pan in Africa classrooms
By Michelle Loubon Trinidad Express
BOOSTING OUR NATIONAL INSTRUMENT: Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon, second right, speaks with Khafra Kambon, from left, chairman Emancipation Support Committee Trinidad and Tobago (ESTT), Dr Mohamed
Take steelpan to Africa schools
Nadaleen Singh - Trinidad Guardian
Read more…Bmobile brand ambassador Brian Lara, left, and UN Secretary-General Special representative and head of the UN office for West Africa and Sahel (UNOWAS), Dr Mohamed Chambas, Minister of Trade and Industry Paula
Hard to get foreign $ to pay international acts
Randy Glasgow Productions’ (RGP) chief cook and bottle washer believes that mega international summer concerts are a thing of the past. He said: “I would say yes, they are dead right now. The main problem facing promoters is obtaining foreign cur
A most powerful result emerged out of the sonorous, multi-talented, Big Five steel band musical of the last weekend.
A most powerful result emerged out of the sonorous, multi-talented, Big Five steel band musical of the last weekend. The performances created the space for a few of the gr
Read more…Big 5 thrills Queen’s Park
JOAN RAMPERSAD Saturday, July 29 2017 |
CONFETTI rained on the crowd at the end of the International Steelband Foundation’s (ISF) Big 5 concert featuring the five bands that have won the National Panorama title over the years. The event took place
Read more…Gunshots In Contant Rattle Minors Playing Steelpan In Church; Two Men Sustain Multiple Gunshot Wounds
ST. THOMAS — Two videos are circulating in the territory showing children peacefully playing steelpan in a Weslyan church in Contant Thursday evening, when suddenly the loud sound of gunshots rattle the kids, sending them — as well as adults in the b
Read more…Antigua’s panorama named ACB – George ‘Nugget’ Joseph Panorama Competition
In recognition of the outstanding contribution to the development of the steelpan movement in Antigua and Barbuda, the Antigua & Barbuda Festivals Commission and the Antigua & Barbuda Pan Association have tagged the 2017 edition of the National Panor
Read more…Pan groups and Festival Commission bicker over money, stage
Antigua
The Chairman of the Festivals Commission, Maurice Merchant has promised the Pan Association that today it will get money owed for last year’s carnival.
The Captain of Gemonites Steel Orchestra, Jowato Henry says Merchant gave the assurance
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