TimesReporter.com
Ohio, USA - Dover Cold temperatures will melt away Sunday when members of the Dover High School Steel Drum Band, under the direction of Joan Wenzel, present their annual concert, this year titled “Pantasia 2014: Keep Your Pans On.
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Some 170 steelbands that lack private sponsors will altogether receive State help of $2.7 million, said Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, Dr Lincoln Douglas, at yesterday’s post-Cabinet news
Read more…National Workers Union
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Not satisfied with selling out state enterprises and privatizing the economy with PPP policies, the ruling elite is going after the steel pan movement to kill it by introducing a pool party (more Ps) i
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Roseau, Dominica, W.I. - The Pan Association has secured sponsorship which will enable them to participate in this year’s Carnival Monday on March 3.
The Association was presented with a five thousand dollars cheque ($5000.00) on Th
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Leading the charge was arranger of defending conventional large band champions Phase II Pan Groove Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, who admitted he was brought to tears when he learned of the initiative which
Minister says their concerns have been answered.
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Global - A field of fifteen large steel orchestras will show off their musical talents before audiences and judges alike at the 2014 Trinidad & Tobago Panorama Semi-finals this weekend at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain. Earlier in the w
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Steelband arrangers blast Panorama pool party: Disrespect for the national instrument
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Splash, a new feature added to The Greens by Pan Trinbago for Sunday’s Panorama semi-finals, has been cri
Trinidad - The upcoming weekend is full of steelband performances for pan music lovers, including those of the fourteen medium steel orchestras vying for spots in the final night competition, and ultimately, being crowned champion in the medium band
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Patrons are paying as much as $700 to be a part of the “Pan Splash” posse, which is a new feature added to The Greens for this weekend’s Panorama semi-finals at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port o
Caribbean Intelligence
I streamed the stream
On Carnival Monday last year, as thousands in the diaspora sat in front of their computer screens, minimising the window every time their boss walked by, the Carnival Monday feed on Trinidad’s state-owned
Read more…Global - It was around 6:25 p.m. on Sunday February 9 when Antillean All Stars struck their first notes at Skinner Park in San Fernando, south Trinidad - almost four and a half hours after the advertised 2:00 p.m. start. The band kicked off what tur
Read more…When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of noted musician, pan player, instructor, and tuner Eddie Andre who passed away yesterday.
click for more on Eddie Andre http://j.mp/NyO3zR
Large Steel Orchestras
Tune of Choice - “We Kinda Music” - Arranger: Andy Narell
Tune of Choice - “Spankin - A Tribute” - Arranger: Robert Greenidge
Exodus Steel Orchestra
Tune of Choice - “Pan I
Thornbury News
Thornbury, ENGLAND - A Thornbury- based steel band is planning a cultural visit to the West Indies.
The Castle School’s steel pan group Panache is travelling to Barbados to play in hotels, at a prestigious reception for the British Hi
Read more…Portland Press Herald
He inspired a coast-based steel band, helped write workers’ songs and made music fun for kids.
Maine, USA - In the fall of 1954, Pete Seeger began his long-running column “Appleseeds” in Sing Out! Magazine. He dedicated it to
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was Carnival Monday shortly after World War 2. The newly formed steelband players who called themselves, The Boys from Iwo Jima, but was dubbed “The White Boys from Corbeaux Town,” led by Ernes
Read more…Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The small and medium steelbands preliminaries in Pan Trinbago’s national steelband Panorama competition took place Thursday night at Arima Velodrome. It was too long and made nonsense of this year
Read more…It is that time of the year folks- When Steel Talks!
