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 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…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
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Albert “Bing” Reid.
Then-Manager of New York Marsicans...
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When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to master and champion arranger Ray Holman.
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
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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…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
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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 after spending almost a week at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
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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…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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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…
Play One for Asami
On February 10, 2016 the local steelpan fraternity (and by extension our global family) were thrown into a state of shock and despair on the discovery of the lifeless body of one of our own Ms. Asami Nagakiya a Japanese national. A
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New York, USA - Insightful, engaging, entertaining and highly educational, was the symposium on the career of the incomparable Mighty Sparrow. The Trinidad and Tobago Folk
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New York, USA - We recently noticed a newly-constructed island or median on Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway. Right smack in the middle of where
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