Musician and area resident Arthur Lipner is forming a community steel band in New Canaan this fall. Like the highly successful Wilton Steel, formed in 2011, New Canaan Steel will accept members of all ages and levels of experience, including none. Gu
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New York Pan Talking Loud and Saying Something - Musically Speaking - 2016
Pan Fantasy - Al Foster arranger
Despers USA - Odie Franklin arranger
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When Steel Talks extends condolences to to the family and friends of Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus
Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus was an intellect, scholar and gentleman whose name is synonymous with excellence and integrity. This charismatic figure and former UN Ambassador is also one of the great historians of the Caribbean.
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New Venue for Birdsong
A follow-up to a story we brought you two weeks ago, when Birdsong Steel Orchestra was thrown out on the streets by their landlord in Tunapuna. The band is slowly taking up residence at the old Works department at UWI, St. Augustine. They're determin
Read more…Revisiting - Meet Damany James - Panist, Arranger, Educator & Percussionist - UpClose!
Meet Damany James - Panist, Arranger, Educator & Percussionist - UpClose!
In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, the talented Damany James speaks on his love of the steelpan instrument and how it has impacted his musical life and experience
Read more…Brooklyn J'Ouvert 2016 Results - J’Ouvert City International, Inc.
2016 Winners
Despers USA - STEELBAND 'BOMB' Competition
D'Radoes - STEELBAND CALYPSO Competition
Sumkinabakanaal - RHYTHM BANDS
Pagwah - FANCY OLD MAS:
Oildowners - TRADITIONAL OLE MAS:
J’Ouvert is Not the problem, or a problem. It is the solution...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A look at the 2016 Brooklyn J’Ouvert Celebrations
New York, USA - 2016 Brooklyn J’Ouvert was tremendous, loving, fun-sharing - and it was an exhilarating joyous event pricked by heartbreaking tragedy. Two young lives
Republic Pan Jam
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago Region of Pan Trinbago will be presenting a Republic Pan Jam with four of the island’s steel orchestras.
Come Saturday September 17, D’ Colosseum Car Park, Milford Road, Crown Point, Tobago, will be the venue for th
Read more…So Your Band Got Jacked Up by the Sound System at NY Panorama 2016 -- You can’t blame WIADCA for that...
A NY Panorama Devil’s Tale - What happened to the accepted standards that were set a long time ago, for professional sound reinforcement and broadcast?
New York, USA - There were no rookies in New York Panorama 2016 when it comes to expectations wi
Read more…The Pan Player From Paradise
by -- Huffington Post
Think of the greatest joy you’ve ever felt. Think of what it was like to be blanketed in sheer bliss. Think of home, in every sense of the word: how it feels, how it looks, how it treats you, and what it means
The Codringtons Remember Asami Nagakiya - Gone but Not Forgotten
Music Album featuring her Original Steelpan Composition
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It is just over seven months to date, since we in the steelpan fraternity lost an incredible musician and a great friend. Little did we know that February 2016, would
Read more…When Presidents are not ready for Prime Time, Pan Suffers
Basic Intelligence 101, Embed Codes and Audience Count
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Recently, it has been brought to WST's (When Steel Talks) attention, that someone who has to be considered technology-challenged, but is still in fact president or vic
Read more…Steelband Body Pan Trinbago Forges International Union
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - On August 4th and 5th, 2015, Pan Trinbago - at its International Business Conference, established an alliance with eight of the leading steelpan markets, including North America, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.
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Read more…Where We Stand - birdsong’s Response to last Saturday’s Trinidad Guardian Editorial
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - birdsong acknowledges with the deepest gratitude the widespread outpourings of support for our cause that have been aired in both the conventional and social media in response to our recent eviction from the premises that we
Martin Daly SC: How Does Steelpan Fit In Violent, Troubled T&T?
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Why are we having such a good time in celebration of an anniversary of Independence immediately preceding a crisis meeting between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on the subject of viol
Read more…D'Radoes wins 2016 New York Panorama
Congratulations to D'Radoes Steel Orchestra on retaining the New York Panorama Championship for the third consecutive year.
The Canadians Are Here... NY Panorama 2016
The Canadians are here! Good luck to Pan Fantasy in the NY 2016 Panorama. It was great meeting you again and 'documenting' your yard performance for WST's drive-by team.
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In Poor Taste City Uses Children to Promote J'OUVERT
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, Brooklyn’s Borough President Eric Adams and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton are asking the Caribbean community to ensure a safe J’Ouvert during this weekend Caribbean carniv
Read more…PAN IN DANGER: TIME FOR A NATIONAL POLICY ON PAN!
by Michael "Brother Scobie" Joseph
Birdsong Steelpan Academy, epitomizes the phrase, 'a king has no honor In his own land'. Pantrinbago must take heed, because a blow to one is a blow to all. I tried looking at the unpleasant predicament of Birdsong
Read more…Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz looks for answers as the Steel Pan School 'Birdsong Academy' was evicted.
Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz looks for answers as the Steel Pan School 'Birdsong Academy was evicted.
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