Bonita school’s musicians feeling the beat with plans to purchase steel drums

Naples Daily News

Bonita Middle School concert band students unload their gear for practice during class at Bonita Springs Middle School Thursday April 21, 2016 in Bonita Springs. The school is currently trying to raise money to purchase a classroom

Champions of Steel rock Jubilee Concert

The Guyana Chronicle

The Champions of Steel in Concert, held on Saturday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), has been labelled “a rare treat” by Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine.Being part of Guyana’s Golden Jubilee events, the concert was

Professor Brian Copeland appointed Campus Principal, UWI St. Augustine

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. April 30, 2016 – Former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor Brian Copeland, has been appointed Campus Principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine. The appointment was announced yest

Remembering the late Martin "Dougie" Douglas on his birthday

Happy Birthday - We miss you "Dougie"  -- When Steel Talks

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Revisited - An Evening of Calypso Jazz, Afro-Caribbean Music and Global Jazz

with Étienne Charles and Frankie McIntosh, special guests Garvin Blake and David “Happy” Williams, and Grammy Award-winner Arturo O’Farrill and the Brooklyn College Big Band

New York, USA - If you were anywhere near New York there was only one pla

A Very Special WST Pan Radio - UNESCO International Jazz Day 2016

PanRADIO celebrates International Jazz Day 2016!

Global - When Steel Talks has been invited by UNESCO to participate in the International Jazz Day 2016.

When Steel Talks/PanOnTheNet is one of many organizations around the world joining in the recogni

Happy Birthday to Robert Greenidge

When Steel Talks extends birthday greeting to champion arranger panorama arranger Robert Greenidge.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.