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Cayman Islands, W.I. - Sixteen-year-old Ethan Whittaker has been honored as Butterfield Young Musician of the Year 2014 for his performance on steel pan.
At the Young Musician of the Year competition at the Harquail Theatre last
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago music historian EDWARD TEDDY PINHEIRO calls Maestro's 1976 album and Kitch's 1967 album the two greatest calypso albums.
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Global - Steel pan music connoisseurs are in for a delightful treat with the release of the DVD of the National Trinidad & Tobago Single Pan & Small Steel Orchestra Finals. The DVD captures the sights and sounds of the competition that was staged at
CBS Minnesota
Minnesota, USA - ....some good news to report about a story from earlier this week. Police in Crystal say they’ve found a parade float that had been stolen.
The Zurah Shriner Steel Drum Band uses the float for parades throughout the s
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Debi Gardner.
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The nine-day WeBeat St James Live Festival staged by the St James Community Improvement Committee (CIC) begins this evening and runs until June 15, at The Amphitheatre, Western Main Road, St James
Lewiston Sun Journal
Maine, USA - Pan Fried Steel, a community steel band based in Yarmouth, will be the next group to perform at the Vienna Union Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21. The band started about 14 years ago when parents of North Yarmout |
Kingsmeadow Steel Band may be about to be sold. Please sign our petition to keep it inside our school! We need to keep the Steel Drums to continue to excel in our local community. All signatures will be appreciated!
CBS Minnesota
Parade Band’s Nearly $50K Float Stolen
Minnesota, USA - A popular parade band may have to go silent this summer because its float has gone missing.
The custom float that takes the Zuhrah Shrine Steel Drum Band to parades around the sta
Read more…Asheville Citizen-Times
North Carolina, USA - Mark Garner creates a handmade, one-of-a-kind product.
But he doesn’t consider his work to be art — rather to be an artist’s tool.
His handpan instruments are not the painting, but the paintbrush, he s
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Nigeria - In meeting up with its corporate social responsibility, the Africa-Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan Development Company (ATTSDC) donated a complete set of steelpans for a fifteen-man band to the Nigerian Military School (NMS). In a presentation
Carib Gold (1956) is a maritime themed B-movie, written and filmed almost entirely in Key West, Florida, with locally-cast musicians and extras. It is most notable for its largely African-American cast headlined by Ethel Waters, featuring the first k
When Steel Talks extends birthday greeting to WTS member Yvette Johnson.
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to CASYM Steel Orchestra, and the family and friends of Marvin Huggins.
By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education correspondent
Trinidad is going to have the first online learning network designed for an entire country
Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies is pioneering an ambitious online learning project.
Coursera, one of t
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by Oliver Stephenson
“We can take solace in that the Pan still has an untold future,” says Anthony Salah Wilson, a steelpan musician, composer, arranger, educator, scholar and founder of Salah’s Steelpan Academy in Quebec, C
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) The Binghamton High School “Juice Blenders” Steel Drum Band announced the release of its fourth CD.
The CD, named “Generations,” features student band members from 2007 through 2014.
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Illinois, USA - Liam Teague, head of steelpan studies and an associate professor in the NIU School of Music, was named the 2014 Laureate in Arts and Letters by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards For Excellence.
Click below for the speech
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Zimbabwe - Caribbean Islanders, Trinidad and Tobago scored big at the recently held Harare International Carnival Street Party when they won two prestigious awards on Saturday night after the street parade.During a prize givin
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Shiplake, England - A Pub celebrated multicultural Britain with its own twist on a long-forgotten tradition.
The Plowden Arms in Reading Road, Shiplake, held its second annual Empire Day on Saturday with live music, entertainment and
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