Steel Pan Fusions first single from the forthcoming album, Melting Pot, their take on London's diversity and rich music scene. Featuring an array of talented musicians that makes London the place to be.
Official launch of Steel Pan Fusion. A contem
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Dawad Philip
When an elder dies, a great library is lost, so the African proverb says. So too, when a mas man passes on, a storyteller, raconteur and magician disappears, a piece of the Carnival -- theatre, art and transcendence -- is taken
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William R. Aho, Ph.D.
Introduction
The focus of this paper is the class, color, and race components in the struggle to create a people’s music — a music originally and essentially of the economically disadvantaged and less formally educated citize
Steel pan, born on the island of Trinidad in the late 1930s, began as an outlaw instrument, hammered from milk tins, biscuit
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If the children of Trinidad and Tobago are to receive a quality education, then all aspects of the nation’s culture must be embraced.
Minister of Education, Anthony Garcia, said so yesterday at the launch of the Telecommunications S
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra elder statesman, Matthew Cox, speaks on this legendary and world-renowned music organization from Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago.
In addition, Cox gives insight
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Cordettes Steel Orchestra may be an unsponsored outfit, but it remains an institution in the eastern district of Sangre Grande.
Established around 1962, the band has held its own as an ensemble,
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Nigeria, Africa - Re-Percussions: Our African Odyssey, award-winning Trinidadian film-maker Kim Johnson’s contribution to this year’s Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in Toronto, is a documentary masterpiece focused on
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Research that began this past summer of the possibilities of performing at Disney World became a reality for The Sanibel School Steel Drumming
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NYPD detectives work at a shooting scene after J'ouvert festivities in Brooklyn AP / Craig Ruttle
As we still mourn the deaths of 17-year-old Tyreke Borel and 22-year-old Tiarah Poyau who were shot and killed last w
By Indranie Deolall September 29, 2016
Spectacular Lord Shorty was ironically anything but little. Standing an imposing six feet four inches tall the musical genius boldly experimented and created the sensual soca, with his exploratory “Indrani” song
Read more…In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, panist extraordinaire Tristan Brewington-Japsi speaks on his love of the steelpan instrument and how it has impacted his musical life and future
New York, USA - Tristan; he is a valued member of Stee
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Every September, millions of people celebrate Carnival in Brooklyn. From the pre-dawn J’ouvert bacchanal in the streets, to the intense Panorama steel pan competition, to the massive La
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It’s 10 am on a January day that’s colder than what I’m used to. Maybe it’s because of the ocean breeze that’s whipping my hair around my face like free formed streams of ice. It could be that everyone is moving around
By Sterling GilesThe Suffolk News-Herald
The sound of rhythmic clanking reverberated off the walls of the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts on Tuesday evening. Opening the door to the source of the noise revealed a room full of children hammering away
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New York, USA - Leon “Foster” Thomas is the consummate artist. He has and continues to deliver the trifecta of the performing arts (create, perform and record) with distinction.
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Jus Now are the product of what happens when two dance music fans – Sam Interface from Bristol and Lazer Beam from Trinidad – unite to innovate Caribbean dance music
Read more…The sound of the Caribbean filled the town centre on Saturday when a steel band took to the high street.
Panachea brought the tunes to Slough, as well as running workshops for members of the public to get involved
