By BBN Staff: This morning Diane Haylock Co- Chairperson of the National Celebrations Commission (NCC) of the National Institute of History and Culture (NICH) received a cheque for $40,000 from Ambassador of the Republic of China Taiwan to Belize HE
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Bridgetown, Barbados, W.I. - It was pure Mosaic magic as the more than 40-member band closed the show on the last day of the three-day pan extravaganza, Massy Pan Pun De Sand, at Brandons Beach on Sunday.
For over seven hours there was
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Gauteng, South Africa - Esteemed adjudicators for the 5th Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival 2016.
We are less than three weeks away from the largest marimba and steelpan festival in the world with over
G. Cardinez - Newsday
THAT Pan Trinbago should have chosen Marabella for its Pan in De Countryside last Saturday seems to be poetic. Most of the people at the Marabella Recreation Ground used the event as a “Celebration of the Life” of former prime m
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Melvin Hewlett (far left) instructing adult participants from last year’s Pan in Splendor
Basseterre, St. Kitts, W.I. - For the second year in a row, the Department of Culture will be hosting “Pan in Splendour,” providing an opportunity fo
St. Lucia News Online
St. Lucia, W.I. - Taking advantage of the Carnival Season and of the presence in Saint Lucia of a group of musicians from the PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars steelband from Trinidad and Tobago, Labowi Promotions and the Laborie Pan P
St. Thomas Source
St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. - The West Indian Company Ltd. (WICO) will feature Victor Provost at its next Jazz on the Dock scheduled for 5:30-9:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 19. Come enjoy the sweet sound of jazz on a steel pan -- thrill the he
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National instrument unites Jews and Muslims
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Earlier this year, Selwyn “Fruits” John, a key member of First Citizens
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelpan innovator and former tuner, leader and arranger Anthony “Tony” Williams celebrated his 85th birthday last Friday but was “feted” by his friends and family on Saturday at his Nepal Street
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning on his passing.
This band was called the "Playboys" It was an Irvine Hall band that we started in late 1966 or early 1967. Le
Read more…PAN TRINBAGO is appealing to the Government to pay the rest of their allocation so they can pay their members
At a news conference yesterday, at Pan Trinbago’s head office, Park Street, Port-of-Spain, Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz said this year,
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Pan Jazz Experience Concert was presented by the office of the Mayor of Port of Spain at Adam Smith Square, Woodbrook, last Saturday.
The audience gathered under the stars to view performanc
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Outstanding Single Pan steelband T&T Fire Services
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Following last weekend’s explosion of beautiful pan music in the North, the action goes south this weekend to the Marabella Recreation Grounds,
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Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - For the 2016 St. Vincent and The Grenadines Panorama competition, the number of participating steel orchestras declined another year; only five bands – Starlift, South East, Symphonix, Sion Hill and Elite (i
The Seattle Times
Seattle, Washington, USA - Radio station KBCS’ event Tuesday, June 28, will feature music and the chance to record your own mass-transit commuter story for the What’s the Flux? project, which is collecting personal experiences of
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Global - The legendary names of Oscar “Bogart” Pyle, Ormond “Patsy” Haynes, Arthur “Art” De Coteau and Anthony Prospect will forever be linked to Casablanca Steel Orchestra. In December 1983 Casablanca journeyed to the USA and performed at the Broo
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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
Read more…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
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
