The Tobago News
Tobago, W.I. - In its quest to keep the steelband culture alive outside of carnival, the National Gas Company (NGC) sponsored Steel Xplosion Orchestra will stage a pan concert next month.
The super pan concert is slated to come off o
Read more…Gros Islet, St. Lucia, W.I. - drop such an overwhelming and commanding performance that the only thing in doubt is who is coming in second and/or third. Halfway through their performance, PanTime Steel Orchestra made it very clear there would not be
Large Bands -
Small Bands
NOW THIS IS GOING TO MASH A COUPLE CORNS.... To whom it may concern for the little pan players an lovers it have out there it has been serious hard on us all to deal with the WITML Show from years gone by. As a player myself it is tuff to practice mo
Brooklyn, New York - Seven steel orchestras were present (nine were actually advertised) - Hearts of Steel, Pan Sonatas, Pantonic, Despers USA, CASYM, Crossfire and the host D’Radoes. The six orchestras able to perform gave an excellent musical accou
Read more…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
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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."
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…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…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 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…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
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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
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
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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…When Steel Talks extends a special birthday greeting to panist, arranger, educator and historian Merle Albino-de Coteau.
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
