Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Sixty-six individuals and steel orchestras will receive awards in thirteen categories when Pan Trinbago Inc. hosts its Annual Prize Distribution & Awards Function. The event, which will be staged for the first time in South
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago’s President Keith Diaz has accepted invitations to visit London and Brisbane, Australia.
The first invitation issued by the British Association of Steelbands (BAS) from 16th to 28th August 2014 coincides with t
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The pan culture lost one of its most passionate boosters with the passing in Trinidad Tuesday afternoon, August 19, of Ainsley Mark, head of the QRC Foundation which for two decades has annually presented the Trinidad and
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago continues to celebrate Pan Month with a host of activities. Starting with the discussion, ”Pan, Progress & Patent” on Tuesday 19th August at the AV Room, NALIS, Abercromby Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad - the s
Read more…Brent & Kilburn Times
London, England, U.K. - Brent youngsters showed that they do have talent after taking part in a grand performance showcasing the very best of classical music–all played on steel drums.
Members of the St Michaels and All Angels
Read more…Global - Increasingly over the last several weeks, When Steel Talks has noticed that several of the national steelband Panoramas in the Caribbean have adopted a practice of announcing the number of “pieces of instruments” in the performing steel orch
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late veteran calypsonian Garfield Blackman (Ras Shorty I) is renowned for the classic “Watch Out My Children”—a lament against the evils of substance abuse.
Last Friday evening, a
Read more…The Voice
London, England, U.K. - ....Rooted in African traditions such as the Tamboo Bamboo bands, the music of the dented metal drums is said to have begun in Laventille, a poor suburb just outside Trinidad’s capital Port of Spain, where UK pan ar
Young Steel Pan Players Vie for Chance to Win Prizes and Bragging Rights at First Annual Competition
Brooklyn, New York, USA - The Carlos Lezama Archives and Caribbean Cultural Center (CLACC-C) will host its 1st annual PanFest, a junior steel pan c
Sonatas Steel Orchestra Two for 2 - But Very Different Results
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Many years from now, the story will be retold about the night with the legendary Neville Jules (and a dancing Mr. Jules at that!)—captain emeritus of the also-l
‘UK Champions of Steel’.
Playing Positions
1st Metronomes Steel Orchestra
- Arranger – Anise ‘Halfers ‘ Hadeed
- Manager – Eversley ‘Breeze’Mills
- Tune – Carnival Tabanca – by Bunji Garlin
2nd Mangrove Steelband
- Arranger – Andre White
- Manager –
Andre Greenidge, David “Peck” Edwards - Winning Arrangers
St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - It was double the joy early Sunday morning when defending champs New Dimension Steel Orchestra and challengers Commancheros Steel Orchestra were named joint winne
Trinidad and Tobago Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Chutney/Soca Music has not been fully exploited on the national instrument, the steelpan, in comparison to Calypso/Soca.
This will change with the celebration of Pan Month in August when the P
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan! Our Music Odyssey, a docudrama about the steelpan, will have its world premiere when it opens the ninth edition of the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) on Tuesday September 16.
The film,
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Arts and culture are alive within the Laventille community with many cultural groups and organisations actively recruiting youth in the area to participate in cultural activities which they say ca
| Position - Points | Name of Band | Tune of Choice | Arrangers |
| 1st - 277 | Commancheros Steel Orchestra | Soca Feeling | Andre Greenidge |
| 1s |
London Evening Standard -- Ishmahil Blagrove Jr
Ch
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Keith Marcelle - former chairman of USSA.
Global - Meet Marc Brooks: Brooklyn native, panist, arranger, educator and performing artist... Creative, inquisitive, thoughtful, gifted and growing - Marc is a natural. He is a ‘sponge’ whose musical horizon is expanding by the moment.
