Pan, powder and fog in de place!
New York, USA - In concert with the band, the crowd spontaneously and enthusiastically shouted - “Spread yuh hands and leh go - Spread yuh hands in the air everybody - Spread yuh hands and leh go - Hand in the air...
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to arranger, panist and composer Amrit Samaroo.
Ace panist and arranger Duvone Stewart says
After watching BET AWARDS i must say BIG BIG THUMBS UP TO JAMAICA and its MUSIC, REGGAE/DANCEHALL , that is why i would always keep saying IF STEELPAN AND CALYPSO/SOCA WAS A JAMAICAN INVENTION AND CREATION,
Condolences are being extended to the family and friends of Gerald Logie of Tripoli Steel Band, who passed on June 30, 2013.
He was one of the original panmen who came from Trinidad touring with the Tripoli Steel Band many years ago.
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Ontario, Canada - The sound of Kenrick Dookie's steel drumming was a new addition at this year's Canada Day celebration.
Dookie, 28, is a member of the Cambridge-based Pan Waves Steel Band that played at Sarnia's Canada Day bash
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Steeltown’s steelpan player
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - ....Wherever he was — at home on Francis Street or in class at Bennetto Elementary School — Dejehan "Lucky" Hamilton tapped on surfaces, kept a beat, made a racket.
His
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Brooklyn, New York, USA - Maybe it was the fact that it was the first official day of Summer and technically the longest day of the year. Or maybe it was because there was a brilliant full moon glowing o
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Illinois, Chicago, USA - NIU’s Cliff Alexis, steel drum builder and tuner and co-director of the world-renowned NIU Steel Band, is among four prominent percussionists chosen for induction to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
The in
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Accomplishments of Anthony Williams by David Maunday
Scientific
Anthony Williams involved in putting pan on wheels in the late 1950s.
The placement of notes on the tenor pan in the 4th and 5th formation.
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Jamaica Observer
Jamaica, W.I. - In a culture dominated by hardcore reggae and dancehall rhythms, St Vincent and the Grenadines steel pan players Reajhaun Baptiste and Rodney Small said it took some convincing to win over the local audiences.
Bapti
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Bayelsa State, Nigeria - Bayelsa State, Nigeria, home state of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan - has keyed into the country’s steelpan art form development with the formation of the Bayelsa State Junior Steel Orchestra, whose players are draw
Read more…CASYM Spring Concert 2013 - featuring PS 161, Class 1 and Class 2
New York, USA - “Show me!” That is simple Brooklyn-ese for ‘let your success do your talking.’ And having said that, CASYM (Caribbean American Sports and Cultural Youth Movement, Inc
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Despite the fact that they are not sure if they still have a sponsor, Skiffle Steel, of Coffee Street, San Fernando, came to Charlotte Street in Port of Spain and gave northerners a
New York, USA - First off, very few have been as critical of USSA (United States Steelband Association) over the years as When Steel Talks (WST); however, if the truth be to
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Can anyone identify the steelbands in this footage?
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Gill’s Pan Shop has been selected by the International Star for Leadership in Quality (ISLQ) Evaluation Committee, as proposed by BIDgroup (Brandname of the companies BID Business Initiative Direc
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Pennsylvania, USA - Janera Solomon, the theater's executive director, wasn't content to just listen to the students rehearse. She picked up a pair of mallets and joined the students, bobbing along to the beat. As the daughter
UKZambians.co.uk
England, UK - The internationally acclaimed Melodians Steel Orchestra departed London-Heathrow last night on board a Kenya Airways flight to Zambia to play at the British Embassy in Lusaka for the Queen’s Birthday Party. The orchestr
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ..... Another creative genius who is still alive and living in the deep south is a man who is widely regarded as one of the greatest steelband arrangers of all time, Earl Rodney of Point Fortin.
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