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United Kingdom - Rachel started playing pan in 1985 with her school steel band — The Radcliffe Rollers — where she was encouraged and inspired by her teachers Richard Murphy and Neil Davison and tuner Micha |
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Brooklyn, New York - One of the revered and legendary names of steel band history in Trinidad and Tobago, Neville Jules, the former longtime leader of the popular Trinidad All Stars band, will be honored by the Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Insti |
Pantrinbago president offloading a container of specially made steel for Pantrinbago pan factory
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Antigua and Barbuda - "We have so much potential to take our steel pan movement to another level”. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Janyssa Humphreys of Antigua and Barbuda shares her
Brooklyn Steel Orchestra (BSO) will participate in the International Panorama Competition. The competition will be held on August 9th in Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Anyone interested in participating with BSO can contact
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friend of Courtney Jones. Courtey was touring member of Phase II Pan Groove.
Trinidad and Tobago - In regards to Pan: "We don’t know the value of what we have. Imagine how awesome we would be if we did.” Never on the sidelines, always in the mix, cultural and social activist A
Trinidad and Tobago - She is a natural. Music and Pan have been in her blood from the very beginning. She is a first-rate musician, educator and bass-section leader in a massive, legendary steel orche
Trinidad Á Tobago - With a genuine interest in the contributions of women to music globally she fell deeply in love with Trinidad and Tobago's culture, music and Pan. She is a steelpan musician, autho
Trinidad Á Tobago - Her passion for Pan is unwavering and burns intensely. She is a steelpan musician, steelpan mom, and steelpan administrator. In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Carol-
Two months ago, Virgil Franklin along with the help of Tony Kluesner, formed the Jammin' Pans Steel Band and on February 19, they held their first concert at the Glenburn Nursing Home.
"Our first concert went well," said Franklin, "It was great to ge
Read more…Trinidad Newsday
Wednesday, March 11 2015
THE EDITOR: I don’t know who Joan Gower de Chabert is but she is to me disillusional. The ten points she made in her scoring is so much baloney. Is she saying those things happen only at the Massy Trinidad Al
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This is non-pan related, but we found it so blatant. Even the deaf could hear that this was a direct rip-off. What was even more disappointing was that Stevie Wonder lost his mind and sided with Thicke and Williams.
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Read more…Dear Friends and music lovers from all over the world especially here in Trinidad, perhaps you don't know the health conditions that one of our greatest musical icons, Mr."Joey Lewis" is now facing and for over the past six (6) or many years. I my s
By Lear Matthews
People criticized our parents. “How could you allow your daughters to do such a thing?” they would ask.
It was the early 1950’s. Guyana, then British Guiana, like many other Caribbean countries was in the initial stages of struggle
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Global - Steelpan instrumentalists, whether they’ve been offering material for public sampling for years or just getting their feet wet, would do well to look no further for a gold standard than the package Garvin Blake delivers on his Paralle |
St. Croix Source
An important Pan on the Green meeting is scheduled for steel band directors for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix campus, in Room T100.
“The meeting is being called to begin accepting ap
The beat goes on for steel drums at Sunrise Elementary School, where the unique sound has resonated for 25 years.
Gary Gibson is determined to keep a good thing going.
When the Kent school contemplated mothballing the after-school program a few year
Read more…When Steel Talks was presented with the following press release from Foxfuse music, media, and marketing company. We found it a bit perplexing. What do you think?
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