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
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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!
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas will give $190 million to cover Carnival costs, but most of it, $150 million, will be used to pay debts incurred since 2010, he told ye
Read more…Greetings from the Caribbean Prestige Foundation for the Performing Arts (CPF).
The Artistes qualifying to participate in the Semi Final round of the Digicel Groovy Soca Monarch Competition drew for positions today at Digicel IMAX.
Below is the order
Global - Medium and small conventional steel orchestras from Trinidad and Tobago’s South/Cent
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A mother of a six-week-old girl. An aspiring interior designer. An avid lover of steelpan.
All these things, and so much more, described 15-year-old Aleah Cain who was brutally gunned down on Tue
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Seventy-two-year-old amputee Glendford Sobers who played the steelpan from a wheelchair, stole the show at the National Panorama 2014 Single Pan preliminaries at Guaracara Park in Marabella on Sat
Read more…Jamaica Gleaner
WESTERN BUREAU:
Lead singer of the iconic reggae band, Third World, William 'Bunny Rugs' Clarke is dead.
Clarke, who would have turned 66 this Thursday, February 6, passed away last night in a hospital in Orlando, Florida.
He had
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tobago steel orchestras in the small and medium categories take their turn
Trinidad Newsday By JULIEN NEAVES
THE ALLOCATION given to the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) for Carnival 2014 is “woefully short”, president Lutalo “Brother Resistance” Masimba declared yesterday.
He said TUCO would have liked $2
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Vying for positions in Trinidad & Tobago’s 2014 National Panorama semi-fin
Read more…TheSpec.com
Neville Blackman — March 20, 1931 to Dec. 23, 2013
Ontario, CANADA - Neville James Blackman is credited with being one of the key people who introduced the sound of the steel drum to Hamilton. So it was only fitting that those soothing, u
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Tiger Tanks Fyzabad 4th Dimension added more light on Sunday night to the already well lit Petrotrin Sports Club, Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre with its performance of Richard Gittens’ arrangeme
United Kingdom - The Trinidad and Tobago High Commissioner to London, H.E. Garvin Nicholas hosted the UK Pan Tuners Guild’s Master Tuner presentation on Friday 31st January 2014 at the High Commission HQ at Belgra
Global - Seventeen small and ten medium conventional steel orchestras will take centre stage as th
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