BitDepth December 8, 2015 Mark Lyndersay
Trinidad and Tobago’s culture has had a long and complicated relationship with mass media broadcasting.
On the positive side, what we have seen and heard has been remarkably honest and true, which is not al
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“Same old noise!” Verna Crichlow laughs, her hands quick around the steel-drum pan, trilling the notes.
If it’s noise, it’s the kind of noise that can’t help making the crowds smile. At 75, Crichlow hobbles a bit getting over to her
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As large and medium steelbands prepare
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of music stand-out Raf Robertson.
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Marie Toby (Tobago), Gerard Mendez (North) and David Balbosa (South/Central) will preside over their respective Regional Executive Committees for the next three (3) years.
However, the East will have to go bac
Read more…Miss Kimberli St. Clair will again lead Tunapuna All Stars as their arranger for Panorama 2016. She will be joined by Vanessa Headley, of Golden Hands, Shenelle Abraham, of St. Margaret’s Superstars, Jeannine Remy, of Hatter and Michelle Huggins-
Read more…Do you know years, songs and performers? Champion Panorama tunes...
- Merle Albino-de Coteau - noted adjudicator, musician, historian, arr
Read more…When Steel Talks salutes George "Nugget" Joseph.
Congratulation to Antigua Pan Patriarch, George "Nugget" Joseph; 100 'Pantastic' years old. Born, November 17, 1915. Antiguan Steel Band pioneer and Captain of the Hells Gate Steel Orchestra; 1948 - 1
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our condolences to the family and friends of Kenneth Hood.
Our deepest sympathies to the family, friends and residents of River Road on the passing of Kenneth "Teloti" Hood who passed away on Saturday November 21, 2015.
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PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Steel Drum Band is taking its show on the road, headed to the group’s second appearance at the Chicago Festival of Lights Parade on Saturday, Nov. 21.
For their second trip in a row, members are coming back as a featured perf
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From left to right: Hesil Caesar, Cyril Leroy Morgan, Gideon Quashie, & Evrod Cottoy High Wycombe honours its pan pioneers By Stephen Spark United Kingdom Photograph By Amy Watters Thursday 19 November 2015 : 10:11 GMT 0
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musical treat: Ambassador Mordehai Amihai-Bivas addresses members of Newtown Playboys while Honorary Consul Barbara Marlins-Smith and Deputy Mayor Valentine look on. —Photo: GARY CARDINEZ
Trinidad and Tobago's newest steelband Newtown Playboys Sym
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The diffi
Rupert Roopnaraine
Minister of Education for Guyana
Guyana is one of the highest ranked developing countries in the Education Index of the United Nations Human Development Report but continues to struggle with the provision of increased access to sat
Read more…Mas Man, a film about artist-designer Peter Minshall, produced and directed by Dalton Narine, won the Long Beach International Film Festival prize (http://www.longbeachindie.com) for Best Feature Documentary on Oct. 11, in Long Beach, a city in Los A
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The International Soca Monarch (ISM) is evolving! For the 2016, there will be no live television broadcast, no live pay-per-view and no online streaming of the ISM final. Instead, the show wil
The long-awaited Limited Edition DVD recording of the International Panorama is available
Captured “live” from the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, the set comprises the twenty four (24) competing steel orchestras on three (3) discs.
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David ijaduola is an all-round musician from being a performer to an arranger and composer. His musical interest started at the tender age of 3 when he began to play his mother’s pots and pans using spoons as his sticks to imitate dr
