Trinidad Guardian - By Kim Boodram
THE Percussive Harmonic Instrument (PHI) pan will now have a home with The University of the West Indies (UWI) in St Augustine, ending a battle for control of the patent and profits between its creators and the Stat
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Trinidad - ALL THE clichés apply on this Panorama evening.
What’s new, though, is that Panorama has begat a couple of sidebar stories that now overshadow the very tenor of the contest.
This is the project Jaco was working on for several years with Othello Molineaux, the steel pan player who often played with Jaco and appears on a couple of his officially released albums. I recall reading about this in Downbeat back in the early 80'
Blurred Lines - Sony Camcorders FDR-AX1 & PMW-Z100 and much more
New York, USA - Generally WST (When Steel Talks) attends the PhotoPlus Expo (this year, literally a week after taking in the AES (Audio Engineering Society) show) to bring the visual a
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to panist, composer, champion arranger and performing artist Dr. Len “Boogsie” Sharpe.
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Ohio, USA - The Summit Academy has a problem.
The Akron middle and high school that addresses the social, emotional and academic needs of students with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders and related disorders has a Steel Band Program th
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This Ohio State marching Band video of "Michael Jackson Tribute" generated well over two million views in 2 days. There are many, many similarities between the marching bands (church drum and bugle corp) and the steelbands of the last century. From
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Music was the language of celebration for the 84 Pan-in-Schools workshop participants who showed off their talents in a spectacular graduation ceremony held at the Queen’s Hall Auditorium recently
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Topping the preliminary round, the Codrington Pan Family scored eight points more than their nearest rival Tropical Angel Harps, to emerge with the highest score at the weekend’s Orchestra Class in the Nationa
The Ubyssey
by: Mariam Baldeh
British Columbia, Canada - College dropout and proud father Gage Averill — when he’s not busy as dean of the Arts faculty at UBC — is a world-renowned ethnomusicologist. To find out exactly what that means, and how mus
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Late steelpan pioneer and innovator Bertram “Bertie” Marshall received a great posthumous honour yesterday when the Old St Joseph Road in Success Village, Laventille was renamed “Bertie Marshall
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The late Pat Bishop, musical director of the Lydian Singers, will be remembered this weekend, as Republic Bank Exodus pays tribute to her at this year’s Steelband Music Festival, to be held at the
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Jimmy Jam delivers Friday’s Opening Keynote at AES
New York, USA - The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is holding its annual convention at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. The fo
Read more…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
Read more…England, U.K. - Author James McGrath said to When Steel Talks “I'm especially keen to re-promote this piece at present, because a new, very long book on the Beatles has just been published - and, though it has its merits, it is very disappointing to
Read more…Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This weekend fourteen steel orchestras will be vying for eight places in the finals of the ‘Orchestra’ class of this year’s edition of the National Steelband Music Festival ‘Pan is Beautiful XII’ series. The e
St. Lucia News Online
St. Lucia, W.I. - The Pantime Steel Orchestra has seized the opportunity to offer the first-ever Pan Yard Tour to cruise ship passengers in St. Lucia. It is indeed a unique opportunity for the reigning Junior and National Champi
Global - Highlanders Steel Orchestra is pleased to announce as a success, their efforts to have renamed - the ‘Old St. Joseph Road’ located in Success Village, Laventille, Trinidad – to: ‘Old St. Joseph Road / Bertie Marshall Boulevard.’
In recognit
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