Tonight with Tim Modise | Andy Narell talks Steelbands, Jazz & Donald Trump
In 2012 Andy began working with Birdsong Steel Orchestra in Trinidad, and composed music for the Panorama in 2013 (The Last Word) and 2014 (We Kinda Music)
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2016 UK National Panorama - order of appearance
EVENT |
2016 UK National Panorama competition |
DATE |
Saturday 27 August 2016 |
VENUE |
Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park, Kensal Road, London W10 |
TIME |
From 7.00 p.m. |
JUDGES |
Roger Saldina, Kenrick Noel and Audley Timothy (two further judges to be |
Youth Steelbands in the spotlight this weekend during Pan Trinbago Steelband Month Celebration
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Two steelpan activities with the youth as the target audience will take centre stage this weekend.
In the North, the Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra will present its First Annual Extravaganza on Saturday 20 August, 2016, at
Read more…For New York Pan Stars Steel Orchestra - Age Is More Than Just A Number - Band Launch 2016
Moving to a different drum - A different beat - Demanding a different outcome
New York, USA - There is the common saying that ‘age is more than just a number’ and in the case of New York Pan Stars (NYPS) this is evidently quite true. NYPS is a relat
Read more…Tears as birdsong waits for eviction
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
Threatened With Eviction, Birdsong Remains On Site
Read more…Jonathan Scales -- Just some simple math & music education for the people!
Just some simple math & music education for the people!
(alongside my heroes Jeff Coffin, Futureman Roy Wooten, & Jay White)
A Special Place, A Special Moment - St. Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
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…Andy Akiho review: Music for strings, color, and percussion
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
St Michael’s youth steel band’s annual concert raises the roof in Stonebridge
Brent & Kilburn Times -- London24 news network
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.
ST Michaels steel band
Legends and Visionaries -- NYU Steel perform at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
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
Read more…Chinese come to hear pan in Laventille
Trinidad Guardian
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
Read more…No nest for birdsong
Trinidad & Tonago Newsday
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…Disrespect, Disrespect and Blatant Contempt for Pan Community in Grenada for Panorama 2016
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…Birdsong is too Important for us to Stand Idly By
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
Andy Narell on the current crisis, birdsong and state of music education
http://birdsongtt.org
8 August 2016
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
Congratulations to Commancheros Steel Orchestra -- 2016 Grenada National Panorama Champions!
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’ |
Chinese pan students visit Laventille Steelband Fest
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
Read more…6 months after Japan pannist’s murder Cops probe 20, wait on forensics
Trinidad Guardian
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
