North London Today
SINGING, storytelling and steel bands all featured on Thursday afternoon as Honilands Primary School celebrated its 60th birthday.
Current and former pupils were present at the jubilee party which included a spec
The sweet sounds of the steel pan will float across Barbados this weekend starting tomorrow night with First Citizens Pan Fusion at Ilaro Court.
Then there will be pan in two cities when the National Cultural Foundation/Caribbean Broadcasting Corpora
Read more…Antigua Observer
ST JOHN’S, Antigua- He is not calling it a controversy but member of the Pan Association Kuma Rodney has been defending a decision to allow foreign judges at this year’s panorama competition.
Rodney who is also owner of the Roots Ste
Read more…Read more…Now the thing is WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A T&T SHOWCASE NEXT YEAR ON BET- BUT IT ENT GO LOOK ANYTHING LIKE WHAT WE NAIEVELY THINK IT SHOULD. IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:
· The artist will be: Nicki Minaj; Heather Headley; Trinidad
St. Joseph, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Atlanta Networks, Inc. presents “Panwomen is Boss,” an All-Female Pan Jazz Concert, on Sunday, July 28, 2013, at the La Joya Auditorium (opposite the Jinnah Memorial Mosque), Eastern Main Road, St. Joseph, Tr
Read more…The Trinidad Guardian
Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was in 1999 that the Eastern Main Road in Success Village, Laventille, got its first taste of an Emancipation celebration.
This took the form of a steelband parade with a dozen bands bei
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Tuner Andy Neils.
Guyana Chronicle
Georgetown, Guyana - Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday received a $1.5M [USD $7,336.00] cheque from Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd to facilitate the fourth annual PanStart Pan Minors Literacy programme whi
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The Trinidad Guardian
Barataria, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - US Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Ajamu Nyomba, will be the guest speaker at Studio 66’s Pan focus today, [Wednesday July 10, 2013]. A former Solo Harmonites player, Nyomba will speak on Steelbands i
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to the Mighty Sparrow.
OakdaleLeader.com
Oakdale, California, USA - Oakdale’s got talent. In fact, a bit of the island calypso sound performed by young Oakdale musicians will soon be featured on the Gallo Center for the Arts stage.
....“The kids played well and handled th
Read more…by Sandra Blood
San Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies - Despite whatever odds irresponsible adults in society may visit upon our young people, engaging them in the national instrument in a meaningful and structured manner from both the pre-teen and t
Read more…St. George's, Grenada, W.I.
The following are the results of the "Bomb Tune Competition" stage at the Grenada National Stadium on Sunday July 7th, 2013
1st - Coyaba New Dimension - “That’s The Way It Is” - 253 pts
2nd - Republic Bank Angel Harps - “N
Article provided by Mazzini Gill
Prieto: Recipients are models for others in their sector
by Joan Rampersad Saturday, July 6, 2013
Paris, France - At a Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony held in the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile at Palais de Congress de
Read more…Read more…Earl Lovelace, I’m happy to report, is very much still with us, and he’s writing with as much verve and rhapsodic wonder as ever. Is Just a Movie is the story of two friends, Kangkala, an out-of-fashion calypsonian, and Sonnyboy, a badjohn turned rad
Musician standout Leon Foster Thomas says:
It's nice to see that pan is reaching places like the Vatican and such but, why is it so poorly supported? 1 soca and chutney singer gets 2 mil and a steel band of 120 players get the same 2 mil. Does that m
Images from: REUTERS/Gabriel Bouys/Pool
Above: Holding his own tenor sticks, Pope Francis looks at the President of Trinidad & Tobago Anthony Carmona (left) playing a tenor pan, during a private audience at the Vatican July 6, 2013. REUTERS/Gabriel
Read more…St. Vincent & the Grenadines 2013 Panorama Results - Five back-to-back Championships for Sion Hill Euphonium Steel Orchestra
Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - Five in a row! Holding fast to the National Steelband Panorama title are 2013 cha
The Trinidad Guardian
Global - For many in T&T and the US, the name Mannette is synonymous with pan and steelband. As the Kennedys are to American politics, so are the Mannettes to steelband. It is no surprise, then, that in Barry Mannette a new gene
