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
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
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the great arranger, leader and innovator extraordinaire - Anthony "Tony" Williams.
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to panist Gregory Boyd.
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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…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
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelpan pioneer Anthony Williams ORTT (Order of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago) will be celebrating his 83rd birthday with a steelband concert in his honor. The gala event takes place at the St. James Amphitheatre, Weste
Read more…When Steel Talks extends Father's Day greetings to all the Dads...
G.B.T.V. CultureShare ARCHIVES 1999: LORD PRETENDER
6-20-99 Father's Day Show @ the Aristocrat Manor, Brooklyn NY
Keishaun Julien doing a Fathers Day tribute on the steelpan to Lut
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Steelband class with Veron Henry (at front, in navy blue)
Below: Principal Armando Ramirez (left) with Veron Henry
Rochester New York, USA - Last month James Monroe High School welcomed a very special guest indee
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Eighteen steel orchestras will take to the Western Main Road, in St. James, Trinidad, on Sunday June 15th in the Steelband Parade from 3:00 p.m. as WeBeat 2014 comes to a close.
Participating steel orchestras—the majority o
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St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad and Tobago – On Wednesday June 4, 2014, at the Office of the Campus Principal, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, a formal ceremony saw the signing of a Memorandum
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Delaware, USA - Peace Drums Project, an innovative music undertaking to create harmony and promote peace among Jewish, Christian and Muslim youth in Israel, hosted it’s 2nd annual Peace Drums Concert Event on Sunday, June 8, 2014, to
Read more…Cuba - The Codrington Pan Family recently did the steelpan instrument and movement and their country proud with great performances in Cuba. It all began with their May 16th journey to the Caribbean island.
The ace music group participated in Cubadi
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Ohio, USA - The back lawn of Woodlawn United Methodist Church was turned into a tropic beach barbeque as the Dover High School Steel Drum Band performed at the church’s barbeque event Saturday evening.
Performing an array of Calypso as
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