Thornbury steel band all set for Brittany tour

UK Gazette

Thornbury steel band all set for Brittany tour

A STEEL band from a school in Thornbury will take their music to the continent next month as they prepare for a tour of Brittany.

Members of The Castle School’s band Panache are set to travel a

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Carnival spreads her wings in Seychelles

These are issues facing every carnival or mas band. It’s apparent in Notting Hill, where there’s an urgent need for younger designers, band-leaders, steelpan arrangers and players, and organisers to take over the reins from the old guard. Carnival ne

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‘Pantabulous’ show Pun De Sand promised

It will be a “pantabulous” Sunday evening, come July 10, as the National Cultural Foundation and Massy Barbados Ltd launch Pan Pun De Sand 2016.

Head of information and communications technology at Massy (Barbados) Ltd, Allan Herbert, said his compan

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Happy Birthday to Pan Innovator and Legend Anthony Williams - June 24

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great Anthony Williams on his 89th birthday (2020).

click for more on Anthony Williams

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A School's Strategy to Improve Attendance Starts At 7 a.m.

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Jun 24, 2016 · by Yasmeen Khan

At P.S. 156 Waverly in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Principal Beverly Logan started the year thinking about how to tackle a 40 percent chronic absentee rate. That means that well over a third of her students

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More Great Live Recordings For Claude Gonzales

GospelOnDeBeatz and AlternateSound present Taking Over Me Live Version featuring Yemi Alade & Phyno.

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Revisiting -- Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus - History of Carnival

Global - Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus is 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. When Steel Talks (WS

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Orman “Patsy” Haynes - Professor Of Steel Band Music - Steelband History

Global - Orman “Patsy” Haynes from Casablanca Steel Orchestra is simply one of the all-time greats of Pan. When Steel Talks (WST) spotlights Orman “Patsy” Haynes as we revisit his 1985 interview with academic, journalist, historian, and cultural an

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Percussion master showcased in San Bernardino library workshop

The Sun Joseph Peck, musician, educator, and producer performs on the steel drum at the Feldheym Central Library in San Bernardino Saturday
California, USA - ....His dad grew up on a farm and listened only to country music before [Joseph] Peck expanded his music appreciation to jazz, the steel drums or pans of Trinidad and Tobago, calypso, reggae and ultimately world music. Peck

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Happy Father's Day

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Steel band hots up the last Queen's birthday party in Blackbird Leys

Two-year-old Jamel Davy has a go playing with Lionel McCalman with Ayanna van der Maten (left) looking on at a street party for the Queen's 90th birthday in Blackbird Leys.

EVEN on a drizzly day in Oxford, this steel band managed to bring some Jama

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Revisiting - Herman Johnston - The Johnston Fantastic Symphony Steel Orchestra - Steelband History

Global - He is one of the central figures in the history of the steelpan instrument and art form. He was a legendary performer, musician, innovator and leader in the Golden age of Pan. In addition, he is a founding member of the champion North Stars

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Fathers’ Day steel drum concert set at 4-H center

The Franklin News Post

Event benefits SML Good Neighbors

Virginia, USA - SML’s Parrot Pan and Toucan Pan steel drum bands will perform for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 19 at 3 p.m. in the W.E. Skelton 4-H Center’s covered pavilion.

“This will be the

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St Lucia National Steel Bands Association elects new committee

June 15, 2016

PRESS RELEASE – The St Lucia National Steel Bands Association (SLNSA) held its election for a new committee on Saturday June 11^th 2016.

The new committee was elected to serve for two years 2016 -2018. The members of the new executiv

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TT delegation to visit St. Lucia for roadshow

Press Release

June 16, 2016

PRESS RELEASE – A 10-member delegation from the Twin Island Republic will visit St. Lucia from June 21 – 23 on a Roadshow to promote Trinidad and Tobago as a vacation destination, as well as its vast array of products, s

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Pan for Peace in Israel

GARY CARDINEZ Friday, June 17 2016

IT IS very obvious that the national musical instrument “steelpan” is under- utilised in the land of its birth. Apart from the pan camps and National Panorama competitions which determine the best playing steel orch

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A Win for Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts, Community and Pan - East Flatbush Community Pushback stops City land-grab and immoral intentions...

Global - Recently it was announced in the New York Daily News that the city of New York under the auspices of the DOE (Department of Education) has withdrawn its own proposal to place students from an Uncommon Kings Collegiate Charter elementary sc

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Hueloy - Cultural Promoter - Steelband History

by Doris Green

Global - He is a steelpan music icon, respected, award-wining, and a global ambassador of the steelpan art form. In addition, he is a founding member of the champion Harmonites Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago. When Steel Talks

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Mayor saves St James pan festival

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As late as 8 p.m. on Thursday, when it seemed that tonight’s 16th annual steelband parade along Western Main Road, St James, would be cancelled due to a lack of funding, Port-of-Spain Mayor Kerr

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Steelpan Music Program and Performing Arts School, Meyer Levin Safe for Now!

City nixes bid to nest charter school inside Brooklyn's cherished Meyer Levin building

City school officials have scrapped a controversial proposal to place a charter in a beloved Brooklyn public school building, they said Friday.

The move comes aft

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Thornbury steel band all set for Brittany tour

Carnival spreads her wings in Seychelles

‘Pantabulous’ show Pun De Sand promised

Happy Birthday to Pan Innovator and Legend Anthony Williams - June 24

A School's Strategy to Improve Attendance Starts At 7 a.m.

More Great Live Recordings For Claude Gonzales

Revisiting -- Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus - History of Carnival

Orman “Patsy” Haynes - Professor Of Steel Band Music - Steelband History

Percussion master showcased in San Bernardino library workshop

Happy Father's Day

Steel band hots up the last Queen's birthday party in Blackbird Leys

Revisiting - Herman Johnston - The Johnston Fantastic Symphony Steel Orchestra - Steelband History

Fathers’ Day steel drum concert set at 4-H center

Event benefits SML Good Neighbors

St Lucia National Steel Bands Association elects new committee

TT delegation to visit St. Lucia for roadshow

Pan for Peace in Israel

A Win for Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts, Community and Pan - East Flatbush Community Pushback stops City land-grab and immoral intentions...

Hueloy - Cultural Promoter - Steelband History

by Doris Green

Mayor saves St James pan festival

Steelpan Music Program and Performing Arts School, Meyer Levin Safe for Now!

City nixes bid to nest charter school inside Brooklyn's cherished Meyer Levin building

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