Happy Birthday to Calypso Rose
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the legendary Calypso Rose.
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Steelband Jamboree Enlivens Charlotte Amalie with the Sounds of Carnival
The Joseph Gomez Pan Busters perform during the Steelband Jamboree.
Under a hazy Sunday evening sky, the upbeat rhythms of steelpans filled St. Thomas’s Lionel Roberts Stadium for the annual Carnival Steelband
Read more…Sandals Foundation invests almost EC$7,000 in Laborie Pan Project
By Sandals Foundation
April 25, 2016
PRESS RELEASE – The Sandals Foundation in Saint Lucia continues in its bid to support worthwhile community initiatives in partnership with civic-minded team members who live within these communities.
Among the mos
Read more…Philippa Schuyler Middle School for the Gifted and Talented Spring 2016 Showcase: About that Pan Jazz
Program Director Ms. Nyasha Rhoden leads the steelpan music charge
New York, USA - Recently Philippa Schuyler Middle School (IS383) Steelpan Ensemble held its Spring 2016 Showcase. The prestigious middle school is already recognized for its outsta
Read more…Steel Ensembles Invited to Compete at Pan on the Green Musical Showcase
Steel ensembles on St. Croix are invited to register for participation in the 2016 edition of the Pan on the Green competition scheduled for 6 p.m., Saturday, May 14, at the St. Croix Educational Complex fo
Read more…Awards and accolades: St Margaret’s steelbands are champions / Steelband honours Ronnie McIntosh
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The St Margaret’s Youth and St Margaret’s Boys AC Primary School Steel Orchestras emerged champions in their individual categories at the just-concluded Orlando Spring Music Festival, organised by USA Music Festival, and hel
Happy Birthday to steel orchestra leader Albert “Bing” Reid - April 22
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Albert “Bing” Reid.
Then-Manager of New York Marsicans...
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Happy Birthday to Master Arranger Ray Holman
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to master and champion arranger Ray Holman.
1950s TRINIDAD TRAVELOGUE w/ LORD INVENTOR & STEEL BAND
Directed by Arthur Cohen, "Steel Bands -- Tropical Music" presents the Calypso singer Lord Inventor and a couple of the bands of the island of Trinidad. Lord Inventor was also known by the name Lloyd Merchant. This film was likely sponsored in part
Read more…Soca and Steel Pan to the World
by Ayana Malaika Crichlow -- TheHuffingtonPost.com - Black Voices
I make no bones about it, I don’t try to hide it; in fact, I am obnoxious about it: I love soca music and steel pan, and I want the world to love it too. Hearing inflections of soca in
Read more…When Are We Going to Show Confidence In Our Own?
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Since 1963, the late great Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, honourable Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago at that time, recognized the Steelpan as the National Instrument of our newly created Independent Nation, in keeping with
Read more…Siege on Meyer Levin School of the Performing Arts Continues
Community tells DOE to "Leave Us Alone!"
New York, USA - At least Columbus had the decency to invade and carry out his dastardly and detestable deeds in person. But not so with heads of the DOE (Department of Education). They send out their minions t
The Mighty Shadow has been discharged from hospital
The Mighty Shadow has been discharged from hospital after spending almost a week at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
Read more…Steelpan to boost tourism, earn forex
Trinidad Newsday
PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley says steelbands will be put to work to promote tourism in this country and to help earn desperately needed foreign currency, He was speaking yesterday during the “Laventille 123- A Different Me” celebr
Read more…Despite Asami’s murder…. ‘Japanese still planning to come for Carnival’
Musical student Mia Gormandy was worried about the response she would get from the Japanese when she returned to that country following the unsolved murder of Asami Nagakiya.
Asami, 30, was strangled to death and her body dumped under a tree at the Q
Read more…Randy Weston presents Symposium in the Drum From Africa to the New World - Panist Khuent Rose represents steelpan and shines
Panist Khuent Rose represents steelpan and shines
New York, USA - Legendary American jazz standout pianist and composer Randy Weston recently held a special forum called "Symposium in the drum - from Africa to the New World" at the New School in New
Musical ambassadors Peace Drums Steel Band to perform April 16 in Perkins Student Center
UDaily
Delaware, USA - The Peace Drums Steel Band, made up of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish junior high school students from Israel, will perform from 6-8 p.m., Saturday, April 16, in the University of Delaware’s Perkins Student Center.
The evening
Read more…Steel drum band performs final show for semester
College Heights Herald/WKUHerald.com
Kentucky, USA - Yells, drum beats and tropical island shirts greeted audience members as they took their seats for the WKU Steelband’s concert.
On Tuesday, the band performed in its final show for the semester i
Read more…The synergy between mavericks
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
...Hadco, Phase II partnership about ‘creating shared value’
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Just after the Carnival this year, a display advertisement appeared in a weekend newspaper. It was a congratulatory message from Hadc
Arts In Context Shorts: Austin Community Steelpan Band
More than an after-school program, the Austin Community Steelband has created an expressive place to uplift local youth through learning steelpan music. Originating in Trinidad, steelbands served as a way for poor and oppressed people to come tog Read more…
