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Jim Wharton- Catonsville High School music teacher, steelpan instructor retiring after 40 years
The Baltimore Sun
Jim Wharton retires tomorrow, Friday, after 40 years as music instructor
Students praise steel drum band founder’s infectious enthusiasm
Maryland, USA - The steel drum sounds that filled the room at Catonsville High School were so i
Condolences to the family and friends of Kaethe George on her passing
When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Kaethe George on her passing. She was the longtime companion and business partner of Dr. Ellie Mannette.
Kaethe George, in her own words - in part (March 22, 2013 - FB post):
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The school where Pan is king
The Trinidad Guardian
Belmont, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Just last month, 11-year-old Ishmael Williams of St Margaret’s Boys’ Anglican School emerged as the most outstanding student in a pan construction and tuning course offered by Pan Development
Read more…St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown (SJCK) Pan Starz Orchestra get new instruments!
The Vincentian
SJCK gets new steel pans
St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - The student body of the SJCK celebrated the arrival of new pans for the St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown Pan Starz Orchestra, to the tunes of ‘We Jammin’, ‘Billy Jean’, ‘Diffe
Read more…Steel drums come to Limehouse for autism charity concert
London, England, UK - The sound of steel drums echoed through the East End on Saturday evening as performers staged a charity concert.
The Ebony Steel Band took to the stage at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Butcher Row, Limehouse, for an e
Read more…Rachel Hayward directs Gibraltar steel band debut
City University London
England, UK - Gibraltar’s first steel band made its debut in April under the direction of City PhD student Rachel Hayward. Royal Gibraltar Regimental Band Leader, Craig Philbin, aims to nurture community music-making on the Roc
Can't Stop The Beat: Three New Caribbean Artists Making Waves
By Jasmine Garsd
If there is a musical lesson history has taught us, it's that you cannot stop a beat. People can be imprisoned, movements can be disbanded, but music — and the ideas embedded in it — will always find a way.
The Afro-Caribbean style k
Read more…Revisiting - Meet William Jones of CASYM: An American Success Story- UpClose!
New York, USA - In an exclusive with the organization's founder William Jones, thirty years after its inception, Mr. Jones shares the history and key to CASYM’s longevity and success in producing outstanding individuals.
In addition, Mr. Jones speak
Read more…South Africa loves pan music
The Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - “Africa is fathomless,” said Hugh Masekela last Sunday evening when addressing a farewell reception, held in his honour at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain. The world-acclaimed South African musician,
Meet Yael Litwin of NYU Steel
Meet Yael Litwin of NYU Steel
Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form
Yael says - “Music is our greatest tool for understanding each other, I believe it is inseparable from community and it is a cornerstone on the road to peace.”
New York,
Salah Wilson delivers Master’s degree recital at Canada’s York University
Montreal, Canada - On Sunday June 1, 2013 at York University in Montreal, Canada, renowned Montreal-based panist and arranger Salah Wilson—who is completing his Master’s degree in ethno-musicology at York—delivered to examiners, thesis advisers and a
Moving to WeBeat 2013 - The rhythm of Steel Orchestras, Calypso, Honorees and more
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thursday June 13th has been designated “Pan Night” for WeBeat13. The annual WeBeat festival in St. James, north Trinidad, was originally inspired by then-Tourism and Industrial Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago (TI
Read more…Born in Trinidad she was known by China as the "Mother of Chinese dance
Dai Ailian is China's legendary ballerina who was born in 1916 into an overseas Chinese family living in #Trinidad. Her years as a dance teacher and educator helped China build a generation of dancers, choreographers, and educators. She is known by #
Kids can make some noise this summer
Brampton Guardian
Ontario, Canada - The sounds of the Caribbean are returning to Brampton when the Steelpan Music Summer Camp returns on July 2.
Executive Director of the camp, Ed Peters, explained that the camp is organized and run by the Brampton
Read more…China’s First Lady applauds TT panmen, artistes
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - So impressed was First Lady of China, Madame Peng Liyuan yesterday with the performance of Exodus Steel Orchestra at the concert in her honour that she extended an invitation to the panists to visi
Read more…Did St Mary’s have the first school pan side?
The Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - ....A surprising revelation was made early in the proceedings by St Mary’s Dean Enrico Rajah, one which sent pan archivists and Pan Trinbago officials searching their memories for verification.
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Read more…US Vice President Joe Biden tries out a steelpan
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Trinidad US Biden
05/28/2013
Anthony Harris/AP/SIPA
Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by Trinidad & Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, tries out a steelpan, the traditional percussion instrument of the Caribb
Pan with the Saints a resounding success
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The inaugural “Pan With The Saints,” presented by the Organising Committee of St Mary’s College 150th Anniversary celebrations was a resounding success on Sunday.
The event was one of several to m
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