Trinidad Newsday
Seventeen-year-old secondary school students, Joshua Bedeau and Jaron Woodsley, leave this weekend on an intensive two week music scholarship programme at Birch Creek Music Performance Centre, Wisconsin, United States.
The teenagers
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By Melissa Doughty Thursday, June 11 2015
Dr Lincoln Douglas, Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, said yesterday the upcoming International Conference and Panorama (ICP) will provide a needed bounce for the country’s internationa
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In the midst of global headlines for all the wrong reasons, a group of boys and young men will reveal a different side of T&T when they take to the renowned stage of Carnegie Hall in New York next Wednesday.
Judging from their recent
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Washington, DC, USA - An enormous poster of the movie “Casablanca” looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The poster does not suggest any pa
St. Croix Source
St. Croix, USVI - The sounds of steel pan bands filled the air Saturday afternoon as PanoRama kicked off the month-long St. John Festival celebration, this year with a theme of “Come Together Culturally On the Scene for Festival 20
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Tallahassee, Florida, USA Calypso. Reggae. Rock. Even classical. All those musical styles were on display at the Virginia International Pan Fest in early May. More than 50 Leon High School steel band members made the 12-hour b
The Late O’clock News
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Read more…WASHINGTON, May 29, 2015 — In a non-regular season, non-pops special concert Friday evening, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) blew the lid off the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall with a scorching-hot program of Latin American and Latin-in
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to arranger Andre White
Sioux City, IA (ABC9 News) - Sioux City welcomed University of Iowa's PanAmerican Steel Band Sunday at Western Iowa Tech. PanAmerican Steel is an all percussion band mostly made up of, you guessed it, steel drums. Students in PanAmerican steel range
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great Neville Jules.
Congratulations to Despers USA and all the participants in "The Arrangers" event. Well done.
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Trinidad, Tunapuna - From July 6-August 8, 2015 birdsong Academy will host its 12th annual Vacation Music Camp. The camp is conducted from 8am-4pm Mondays through Fridays at venues in the Tunapuna community, including the panyard, the UWI St A |
B. B. King, whose world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89.
His death was r
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Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) has donated US$100,000 to the St. Margaret’s Boys’ Steel Orchestra from Belmont to participate in the 2015 New York Sounds of Summer International Music Festival at the prestigious Carnegie H
Read more…A young panorama musician contacted WST for information on when T&T Panorama 2015 checks will be available. Can someone in the know post that information asap?
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Brooklyn, New York - On Sunday evening, April 26 2015, they gathered in impressiv
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Brooklyn, New York - Packed to the brim, with crowd overflow outside the venue - on a Monday evening at the trendy and world-famous "Sugarcane" in Brooklyn, New York - no chairs, no tables - standing room only - Garvin Blake, Frankie McIntosh |
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Brooklyn, New York - No major Brooklyn ‘christening’ could really be complete without the presence of a Brooklyn, New York steel orchestra. And such was the case with the newly-refurbished Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre. This past Monday the stage o |
by Patricia Meschino
The Victor Recording Company’s sessions in Trinidad, which produced the first recording of calindas (the chants accompanying carnival’s stick fighting ritual) sung by Jules Sims, are also noteworthy for the virtuosic piano play
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