Today is the birthday of steelpan great Robert Greenidge - Happy Birthday - April 28
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Friends celebrate Hugh Borde at 81 - T&T’s pan ‘Liberace’
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The names Hugh Borde, Tripoli Steelband and Wladziu “Liberace” Valentino may not be familiar to many young pan musicians, musicians in general or random adults, but to the history of pan, hopefully
An interview with "Rising Stars" new recording sensation artist Pressure
He was born Delyno Brown on August 5th 1981 in Charlotte Amalie, capital city of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands were colonised by the Danes and used for the sugar and slavery trades in the 17th century bef
Pan Trinbago Responds to Calls for Payment of Prize Money
Pan Trinbago has issued a response to an article published in the Trinidad Guardian of Monday 21 April 2014 under the headline “Pan Trinbago owes pannists $2m for Pan Is Beautiful XII”
It states: “The President of Pan Trinbago, Keith Diaz, communicat
Read more…100+ Steelpan Performers on stage at the Carpenter Center - Massive Band 2014 – CSULB Steel Orchestra Extravaganza
California, USA - The annual CSULB (California State University, Long Beach) Steel Drum concert Caribbean Extravaganza gives way to a massive steel orchestra on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 p.m. The concert features the CSULB Steel Drum Orchestra during
Meet Gerry Kangalee, author of ‘Out of Pain This Culture Was Born’ - UpClose!
Global - Gerry Kangalee is the author of the seminal manuscript titled ‘Out of Pain This Culture was Born’ - which should not only be required reading for anyone involved with the steelpan instrument, but mandatory studying for all Trinidad and Toba
Steely Pan Steel Band reunion concert held April 26
Appalachian State University News
North Carolina, USA - Clean and press your Hawaiian shirt and great ready for an incredible night of steel pan music when the Steely Pan Steel Band and alumni perform in a free concert Saturday, April 26.
The progra
Read more…Sullivan High School Steel Drum Corps Visits Hamburg
Chicago Sister Cities International
Chicago, USA - From May 5–13, 2014, the Hamburg Committee of CSCI is sponsoring Sullivan High School’s Steel Drum Corps visit to Altona Gymnasium school in Hamburg as part of the 20th anniversary of the sister city
Steelpan Controversy -- Mayor: We ought to be proud of it - Point Fortin Borough Day
Trinidad Express
..“We are celebrating our 34th year with these types of celebrations, and 25 years of Pan on the Move. While everybody in Trinidad and Tobago and all over the world is trying to compete, we ought to be very proud, this is something w
Point mayor: No Borough Day without pan
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Point Fortin Mayor Clyde Paul says there will be no Borough Day celebrations without T&T’s national instrument, the steelpan. Speaking on Saturday night, Paul adamantly declared that steelpan will
Pan Trinbago owes panists $2m for Pan is Beautiful XII
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago still owes $2.1 million in prize money and trophies to steel orchestras and participants of the Pan is Beautiful XII national steelband festival, held in November 2013. Now five months
Celebrate the steel pan sounds of the Caribbean with Toronto students
InsideToronto.com
Toronto, Canada - For the past 25 years, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has enriched its music programming by giving students a taste of the Caribbean.
The TDSB has hosted its annual Panfest celebration, in which students
Read more…From Siparia to Soweto with Siparia Deltones Steel Orchestra & Hugh Masekela - Album launch set for May 2014
Global - A steel orchestra and trumpet collaboration between Trinidad's Siparia Deltones and world-renowned Hugh Masekela has produced the album “Siparia to Soweto,” now set to launch in May 2014. This trans-Atlantic collaboration between the iconic
Spotlight on one-time Belafonte Ensemble Steelpan Troubadour - Caldera Caraballo
New York, USA - One of the most fabled of the Trinidadian steelpan exponents transitioning to the New York scene decades ago, Caldera Caraballo, whose exploits included a stint in Harry Belafonte’s touring troupe, will be the focus of attention at th
Condolences to the family and friends of Ashley George of Antigua’s Hells Gate Steel Orchestra
When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Ashley “Asho” “Dosh” George of Antigua’s Hells Gate Steel Orchestra who recently passed.
Ashley “Asho” “Dosh” George of Antigua’s Hells Gate Steel Orchestra, Remembered
Ashley George,
Read more…When Smiling Faces Make a Joyous Sound... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Juniors Spring Into Music
New York, USA - It was a special evening for the youth. It was a great evening for the parents. It was an exceptional evening for the Brooklyn community on this early Spring Day. It was a wonderful evening for Pan. And it was a special evening for D
Australia and New Zealand launch major Strategic Steelband Initiative
Australia - In April 2013 at the 1st Australia Steelband Festival, the world got a glimpse into the tremendous progress pan has made on the distant shores of Australia, New Zealand and even Oman.
There one witnessed wonderful pan performances of se
Read more…Eight top steelbands take stage at NAPA
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Laventille Steelband Festival Foundation (LSFF) will in May present a concert titled 8 of Hearts at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port-of-Spain. The concert features reigning Na
Read more…Pantonic’s Oil & Music at D’Avenue with Panist Kareem Thompson & K.I.T. Caribbean
New York, USA - “An unseasonably cold March Sunday evening was put on notice that the sounds of steel—and not the chilly weather—would hold court for a couple hours and dictate exactly what would warm the hearts of patrons who happened to be in the
Revisited - Meet Jonathan Scales - UpClose!
Global - “...I just so happen to love the instrument, and the culture and everything that goes behind it - like Trinidad, calypso... once I got into pan, I really got into it. And as a composer I was coming from like a film score background - like f
