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

St Lucia National Steel Bands Association elects new committee

TT delegation to visit St. Lucia for roadshow

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

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in the New York Daily News that the city of New York under the auspices of the DOE (Department of Education) has withdrawn its own proposal to place students from an Uncommon Kings Collegiate Charter elementary sc

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

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

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

North Charleston Middle School Performers Become Stars of Their Own Disney Show with Performance at Walt Disney World Resort

River Oaks Steel Band

River Oaks Honor Band

River Oaks Singers

River Oaks Middle School students from North Charleston, South Carolina entertained Walt Disney World Resort guests from across the nation and around t

People studying pan in America

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago President Keith Diaz has renewed calls for a local masters degree programme in steelpan as people are learning Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument in other countries.

....He sa

‘Looking at losing our heartbeat’

Middle school fears for arts program if charter co-locates

+2 Bruce Cotler

Parent coordinator Donna Phillips and teacher Linsey Johnson wear their emotions on their T-shirts at a rally on May 10 outside IS 285 to protest a proposed co-location at the

Panmen can’t get work

A LACK of music literacy is hindering steelband arrangers from getting employment and has resulted in Panorama compositions not being recorded.

These were some of the concerns raised yesterday during the open

Boost for steel band

by David Sedgwick - News Post Leader

Jenny Gilberg, musical director, receiving a cheque for �3,350 from Chris Boak, from Freemasons of Northumberland, with guest tutor Leroy Clarke and players from the orchestra.

Music education for Hype trainees

Pan player Adrian Jaikaran entertains guests at the opening of the MIC Institute of Technology’s Music room at the O’Meara Technology Center, O’Meara Industrial Estate, Arima, yesterday. Also enjoy

Dîner en Blanc Port of Spain

St. John Festival Kicks Off with Pan Music in the Park

By David Knight Jr. — June 5, 2016 - V.I. Source

Liston 'Matey' Sewer directs the Joseph A. Gomez Elementary Pan Busters at Pan-O-Rama (David Knight Jr. photo).

St. John Festival 2016 got off to a lively start on Saturday as steel pan renditions o

San City Steel Symphony Sings Sad Song - Wall falling on steelpan instruments latest in tale of woe

San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Usually, San City Steel Symphony housed on Carib Street in the city of San Fernando, south Trinidad is in the business of making sweet music. And that skill set saw the band coming in second in the country’s 2

Muhammad Ali - RIP

The Greatest

WIADCA, Caribbean Tourism Organization and Caribbean Heads of Delegations forge relationship-building outreach during Caribbean Week

New York, USA - A ‘marriage made in heaven’ - that of “WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association) and CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organization) bringing collective minds together.” These were the words of Brooklyn-born Congresswoman Yvette Cla

Young steel pan player killed in freak accident

Kaieteur News

Guyana, S.A. - A 14-year-old steel pan player, who was slated to perform at the flag-raising ceremony last night, was killed in a freak accident on Tuesday evening in front of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School.

The teen had just