Happy Birthday to Jared McCallister
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Daily News columnist Jared McCallister
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Barbados, W.I. - The Sweet Sounds of the steel pan are resonating across Brandon’s Beach and its environs.
In front of a large crowd, Massy Pan Pun De Sand got off to an infectious musical start with Central Bank Band Camp.
With a bi
Read more…Pan Criteria - St. Lucia Panorama 2014 - Steelband Info
ARRANGEMENT - 40 Points
- Introduction (10 Points): The ability of the arranger to compose an appropriate introduction for the prepared calypso piece.
- Re-Harmonization (10 Points): The ability of the arranger to re-harmonize the prepared calypso piec
Congratulations - Panist, Educator - Mia Gormandy receives the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship
When Steel Talks extend congratulations to Mia Gormandy on receiving the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship presented by the American Musicological Society for research on her dissertation "Pan in Japan."
With a wing and a prayer - Fourth annual birdsong Steel Orchestra benefit concert
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The fourth annual Birdsong benefit concert was appropriately held in the Lord Kitchener auditorium at NAPA on June 22. As an icon of T&T’s musical patrimony, Kitch would surely have
Read more…Pan Trinbago Northern Region Hosts Two July Events
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Northern Region of Pan Trinbago Inc. will be holding two events during the month of July. The first is carded for Friday July 11th at the Food Court, Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
“Pan on the Food Co
Read more…Revisiting - Meet Kareem Thompson - Arranger, Composer, Performing Artist - UpClose!
Global - Kareem Thompson's love affair with the steelpan instrument began at the age of eight years old. It has been and continues to be, a magnificent story. Thoughtful, cerebral, gifted, spiritual and introspective - Kareem brings that rare blend
Read more…Sugar and the Caribbean -- Non Pan related
“How can something so sweet be the source of so much misery?” Eric Williams, ‘Capitalism And Slavery.’
Sugar has played an important role in the development of the Caribbean. Artist Kara Walker has but together an intriguing display on the subject.
Read more…"Big People Party" by Farmer Nappy a Rip Off of "Big People Party" by Teddyson John???
With so many steel orchestras performing "Big People Party" for the Summer and many of them considering it for their 2014 Panorama Tune of Choice, it is time to consider whose song is it?
Check out the 2012 version by Teddyson John of St. Lucia - acc
Read more…St. Vincent & the Grenadines 2014 Panorama Results - History-making SIX consecutive championships for Sion Hill Euphonium Steel Orchestra
Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - History was again made when Sion Hill Euphonium Steel Orchestra kept their national Panorama title for an unprecedented sixth consecutive year at Victoria Park in the country’s capital of Kingstown. Though t
“Can you hear me now?” New York Pan Stars and Brooklyn’s Steel Orchestras Rock Volume II on Pantastic Friday... 2014
New York Pan Stars perform
Brooklyn, New York, USA - The “Cultural Center of the World” is a title that New York City has earned for quite awhile now because of its size, diversity and respect for the arts. And now within the city, Brooklyn has becom
Read more…Scotiabank provides music platform for young panist
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St. Vincent & The Grenadines, W.I. - Eighteen- year-old Kasique Oliver (pictured at right) is well on his way to becoming a music protégé.
Apart from his trophy for winning the first ever Bank of Nova Scotia Solo Pan Clash on Sunday
Read more…Happy Birthday to Merle Albino-de Coteau - June 29
When Steel Talks extends a special birthday greeting to panist, arranger, educator and historian Merle Albino-de Coteau.
Meet Clifford Alexis, arranger, tuner, panist and member of the 1964 ‘Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband ’ - UpClose!
Illinois, USA - In 1964 twenty-two members of the Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband toured the United States and created steelpan music history. Among the virtual who’s who of outstanding panists who were picked for the tour was noted NIU (North
When the Sun and Streets Exploded Part 1
Calypso and World Politics Converged in British Guiana, 1962
By Geoffrey Dunn
Behold the photograph: Three legendary calypsonians from Trinidad and Tobago—the Grandmaster Lord Kitchener, with his stand-up bass; the bare-chested, nearly defiant Lord S
Happy Birthday to Tony Williams - Pan innovator extraordinaire
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great arranger, leader and innovator extraordinaire - Anthony "Tony" Williams.
Happy Birthday to Gregory Boyd
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to panist Gregory Boyd.
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“Steel Bands get paid for 2014 Pan Expressions in June” - NLA MAKES HISTORY FOR EARLY CARNIVAL PRIZE-HANDOVER
GROUP PHOTO WITH NLA’S GENERAL MANAGER – MR. GEOFFREY GILBERT AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH STEEL-BAND WHICH TOOK PART IN THE 2014 SMC/NLA PAN EXPRESSIONS.
“Steel Bands get paid for 2014 Pan Expressio
Read more…CASYM Steel Orchestra has it going on - Spring Concert 2014
Brooklyn, New York, USA - “Extra, Extra, read all about it - the CASYM Steel Orchestra organization has executed another successful event.” You have heard the narrative, seen the headline and lived the experience before, but it never gets old. In fac
