By SEAN DOUGLAS Wednesday, August 17 2016 Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
SEVERAL sad youngsters shed tears as birdsong Steel Orchestra awaited the arrival of a court marshal on Monday for eviction from the Tunapuna site on St Vincent Street that it has oc
Read more…Threatened With Eviction, Birdsong Remains On Site
Read more…Just some simple math & music education for the people!
(alongside my heroes Jeff Coffin, Futureman Roy Wooten, & Jay White)
New York, USA - Vēnērunt, vīdērunt, vīcērunt - They came, they saw, they conquered. Looking back a little over one year ago, it was indeed by the fifth thunderous standing ovation any doubt the organizers of this historic event may have had about th
Read more…Riveting Chamber Music Northwest performances showcase an exemplary 21st century composer
August 12, 2016 // FEATURED, MUSIC // Oregon ArtsWatch
By MATTHEW ANDREWS
Andy Akiho joined other Chamber Music Northwest musicians at Alberta Rose Theatre. Pho
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St Michael and All Angels Steel Orchestra, part of the St Michael Youth Project SYMP), enthralled audiences in Hillside last night with their eclectic mix of pan music.
by Deborah Jowitt — Dance Beat
New York Theatre Ballet performs a new work and a classic at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
New York Theatre Ballet in Song Before Spring by Zhong-Jing Fang and Steven Melendez. Clockwise from R: Melendez, Amanda T
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A special space was reserved in the VIP section for the members of Beijing’s Ritan High School, hosted in Trinidad by Panland T&T Ltd. Ritan is one of the very few schools in China with a steel orchestra and Panland invited the scho
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ANA-LISSA JACK (NYLO INTERN) Wednesday, August 10 2016
ON THE second day of pan month, birdsong Academy Steelband and Music School received an eviction notice to vacate its Tunapuna base. The band has until August 15 to vaca
Read more…St. George's, Grenada, W.I. -- Kirk Seetahal, CEO of Spicemas, under which Grenada's National Panorama currently takes place, is under fire for the unprecdented and gross disrespect and contempt experienced by the steelband players and community in t
Read more…Without a National Policy for Pan, situations like the eviction imbroglio that is presently confronting Birdsong are bound to occur. If the steelpan is the national instrument then we have to set up the national infrastructure within which steelbands
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Andy Narell
Read more…We received this article from our 2016 Panorama arranger Andy Narell. Andy is a highly regarded jazz musician and composer specialized in the steelpan and a renowned soloist who has played in hundreds o
RESULTS
| Position - Points | Name of Band | Song | Arranger |
| 1st - 278 | Commancheros Steel Orchestra | Dance | Andre Greenidge |
| 2nd - 269 | Angel Harps Steel Orchestra | Take It | James Clarkson |
| 2nd - 269 | New Dimension Steel Orchestra | Salute The Band | David ‘Peck’ |
Panland Trinidad and Tobago Ltd yesterday hosted the Ritan High School of Beijing, one of just a few schools in China with a steel orchestra. The group arrived on Friday and would be returning home today (Monday).
The Chinese school was invited to wi
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by Gail Alexander
Today’s marks six months since the murder of Japanese pannist and masquerader Asami Nagakiya and police probing the case have interviewed over 20 people from T&T and Japan and are also awaiting the final pathologis
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
In his message to launch Pan Month on Friday evening Pan Trinbago’s president Keith Diaz said he was proud to see the Trinidad and Tobago athletes parade at the opening of the 31 Olympics Games in Rio, Brazil in their red, w
Read more…The Birdsong Academy, a Tunapuna music and cultural institution, is begging for extra time from their landlords to acquire new land and construct a new building. They're staring down the barrel of an eviction notice and they have to be out by Monday.
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St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - A slate of nine steel orchestras vied for the title of Grenada’s national Panorama champion for 2016. Commancheros Steel Orchestra turned the musical tables on Angel Harps (who beat them into second place last year) and
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tomorrow, Laventille will once more open its arms to residents and visitors alike to come and share in the brighter side in the capital of the pan world. From 5 pm, the Laventille Steelband Festi
The internationally revered music education organization was recently served notice that the landlord was advising of the scheduled demolition of their premises of 28 years on Monday August 15, 2016. The birdsong institution has been serving their co
