Happy Birthday to Len “Boogsie” Sharpe
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to champion arranger Len "Boogsie" Sharpe.
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Coming Home - Andy Narell Delivers Awesome, Edgy CD
Global - Andy Narell’s new album, Oui ma Chérie!, is just the thing to gift the soul of music. Bright and splashy, it delivers a mosaic of ideas and sounds the Italians may well categorize as coloratura.
From the very first cut, Forward Home, arran
Read more…Brute Force Steel Bands
In the nineteen fifties, the Cuban mambo sounds were very popular with steel bands, and were even heard on the road at Trinidad Carnival.
The Brute Force Steel Orchestra of Antigua was one of the best known and most popular steelbands in the Caribb
Revisited -- Daddy Sparks, Seventy-eight years young & still playing the Steelpan
by Hollis Clifton
Pan Diaspora Visionary
Pan Diaspora Visionary
Trinidad, W.I. - Come carnival 2010 Fitz-Gerald Sparks would be 79 years young and still playing tenor pan for his beloved Starlift Steelband for Trinidad & Tobago panorama even though he has been confined to
Fusion Steel to serve up Mini Concert at Double CD Launch
San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Fusion Steel from southern Trinidad will treat attendees to a Mini Concert and Double CD Launch at a two-hour event carded for Wednesday 29th October 2014 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Naparima Bowl in San Fernand
Read more…A Chat With Clive Bradley - Master Arranger, Composer, Producer - UpClose!
Global - Over the course of approximately a little over two decades, members of WST (When Steel Talks) interacted closely with the late Clive Bradley in various capacities - i.e.., musicians, players, engineers and journalists. The following is |
Steelband arranger and guitaris Scipio “Sarge” Sargeant - An Exclusive WST Interview
Scipio “Sarge” Sargeant at Basement Recordings’ studios in an exclusive 2003 WST interview. “Sarge” has been a significant figure on the music scene, co-arranging for Despers USA during their record 6 consecutive year-wins at the New York Panorama.
Read more…Caldera’s Mambo
Global - The writing and performance of Reynold “Caldera” Caraballo’s tune “Caldera’s Mambo” in 1955 was—at the time—the only calypso performed that was composed by a steelband person - and incidentally also how he came by his name. Caldera’s |
Revisiting - Meet Caldera Caraballo - Panist, Performing Artist, Steelband Promoter... UpClose!
Global - Mr. Caldera Caraballo is a central figure in the history and development of the steelpan movement in the USA as a panist, organizer and promoter. From winning New York’s first-ever steelband competition to organizing the New York Panorama, g
Help my "b" note makes me cringe - (says Tommycai from Long Island)
A message that seeks assistance from WST Forum members:
Read more…Hello my name is Tom, I purchased a new pan from a company called Vista pan, it was their top of the line chrome series . As like the former pan I purchased from them the "b" note has no over r
Happy Birthday to Fae Elwin-Martin
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to Mrs. Fae Elwin-Martin.
Read more…Happy Birthday to Mark Loquan
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to panist and composer Mark Loquan.
Read more…Pan Trinbago pays out
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Leader and manager of the Codrington Pan Family Cary Codrington breathed a sigh of relief on Monday evening when he received a $250,000 cheque from Pan Trinbago‘s President Keith Diaz.
The cheque
Read more…Time to rejuvenate pan literacy
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The proliferation of music stands in steelband performances, signifying widespread sight-reading by pan players, might be mistaken for a faddish overnight sensation on the Trinidad and Tobago pa
Read more…‘We must focus more on pan’
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Intellectual property rights is one of the major issues that is preventing the steelpan from being properly marketed internationally.
Planning Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie said on Wednesday that ne
Read more…Rudder returns to school for Pan Royale
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Stellar cast for pan jazz festival
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Belmont Intermediate alumni David Michael Rudder returns to school on October 18 for a grand performance.
One of T&T’s most revered artistes, Rudder will be one
Read more…Happy Birthday to Bertel Gittens
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Bertel Gittens.
Read more…Carnival 2015 may be postponed
Carnival 2015 may not occur or be postponed if the Ebola virus becomes pandemic.
The National Carnival Commission (NCC) Chairman Allison Dumas announced that the body is considering in a bid to protect revelers.
She added that the threat of an Ebola
Read more…Top musicians to lead First Citizens music workshops
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The promoters of the 2014 T&T Steel Pan and Jazz Festival (TTSJF) have recruited an exceptional line-up of facilitators for the 12th annual First Citizens Workshops for Young Musicians Series, to
Community Board 9 Protest Heats Up - Flashpoint for Brooklyn's Gentrification Push-back
J’Ouvert celebrations, Brooklyn steelbands in peril
Brooklyn, New York - “Whose neighborhood? Our neighborhood!” the protestors shouted. The lines and the arguments are clearly defined. In what has become a significant flashpoint in the push-back ag
