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A beautiful noise

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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Leon “Foster” Thomas and Crew Live at Club Bonafide - a Total “Metamorphosis”

The ‘eyes’ tell the story of an outstanding performance by panist

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.

Ear

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Bristol-Trinidad duo Jus Now created the ultimate sample library of Caribbean percussion

Create a more authentic rhythm backbone for your West Indian-inspired dance tracks.

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

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Steel drum band Panachea entertain in Slough High Street

Tara O'Connor

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

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Community steel band forming

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

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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

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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:

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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

Spice Isle Rhythm Jammers participate in the 2016 Brooklyn, New York J’Ouvert 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

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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

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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?

Sound Devil

New York, USA - There were no rookies in New York Panorama 2016 when it comes to expectations wi

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The Pan Player From Paradise

by Alfonso François -- 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

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The Codringtons Remember Asami Nagakiya - Gone but Not Forgotten

Music Album featuring her Original Steelpan Composition

Asami

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

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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

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Steelband Body Pan Trinbago Forges International Union

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - On August 4^th and 5^th, 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.

....No

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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

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Martin Daly SC: How Does Steelpan Fit In Violent, Troubled T&T?

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The birdsong academy gets going during the 2015 Junior Panorama competition.

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

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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.

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