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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
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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
Read more…Maya Angelou, passed away at age 86 today. When Steel extends condolences to her family and friends.
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The musical collaboration between legendary South African trumpeter, composer and singer, Hugh Masekela, and the Siparia Deltones Steel Orchestra has been described as a melding of musical forms
Global - Gerome Bhola of Marabella in Southern Trinidad shared a few images from an old collection, relative to the world-famous Tripoli Steel Band participating in carnival in pre-1958 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The pictures were taken by his father
Global - Len Church is a respected member of that extraordinarily talented group of musicians that ushered in the period commonly referred to as ‘the Golden Era of Caribbean Music.’ He performed and/or recorded with the likes of Winifred Atwell, Ed
Looking through this year’s list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings, you might find yourself asking, “Where the ladies at?” Nicki Minaj, who clocks in at no. 4 with an estimated $29 million, is the only woman on the list, earning more than Snoop Lion, Eminem and
Cayman 27
Cayman Islands - There’s nothing quite like the sound of a steel pan band. Young pan-jammers from all over the island put their sticks into action for a steel pan competition.
Schools from all around showed their talents off Thursday night
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London, ENGLAND - UKIP’s (UK Independence Party) Croydon carnival, which ended in carnage on Tuesday before Nigel Farage had even arrived, had a breakout star as the steel band that refused to play for the party got a gig on Ne
Global - Born one month before time on September 19th, 1993, Ayana Shallima Garcia displayed her love for music and the culture of Trinidad and Tobago as a toddler. The fact that her parents own a business next to Kitchener’s Revue tent exposed her
