South bands struggling to find players for Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - While the national Panorama competitions continue to flourish in Port-of-Spain, steelbands in San Fernando are struggling to find players to launch a big challenge. The present situation is not ov

Pan Trinbago to pay $10,000 to two members

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago was yesterday ordered by a High Court judge to pay $10,000 to two steelband members who were seeking positions on the committee of the governing body for pan and steelband music.

Jus

50 Years Later - Panorama Memories - Are We Better?

In his composition for Panorama 2013, arranger and songwriter Curtis Edwards ask the question "Are We Better?"

Some 50 panorama competitions later - are we better? And what are your most memorable panorama experiences?

The Greens verus Panorama

David Wears asked...

It's the BIGGEST Panorama Greens being built. That mean IS PARTY for those who want to fete for Panorama.

Question: Do you come, the Panorama Greens feter, come to listen to pan, AND if you do, do you agree that ALL DJ music must

Unsponsored Panmen receive cheques

CTNTWorld

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism, Dr. Lincoln Douglas, says Government will keep supporting the growth of the steelband in order to strengthen the cultural sector.

On Tuesday, the Ministry distributed

Ray Holman - 50 Years of Panorama and Counting

A When Steel Talks Exclusive

Global - In this exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, champion arranger Ray Holman provides a frank and honest assessment of the current state of the steelpan movement in Trinidad & Tobago, its past, its growth, s

Back for 2013 Panorama, Narell Talks Pan - Lots of It

by Dalton Narine

Global - Andy Narell is back for Panorama 2013. The American-Trinidadian will be right at home among a fraternity of arrangers. And even narrowed in the small corner of elite composer-arrangers. It’s been 12 years since he last arra

Discover beaches, rainforests and steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago

WestJet Up! Magazine

Steelpan odyssey

Global - “You might want to cover your ears. This is gonna be loud.”

I am standing beneath a rusted tin canopy in a modest backyard studio in Laventille, a labyrinthine community tucked deep within the hills of

Pan Trinbago gets drum-making factory from NP

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The National Petroleum Company (NP) has donated its drum-making factory to Pan Trinbago to be used for the manufacturing of the steelpan.

....“Just yesterday (Wednesday) NP donated it’s drum-making facility to us,” Diaz add

Granding the Pan - Liam Teague with Richard Tang Yuk at Queen’s Hall

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Last Sunday’s Piano and Pan Recital at Queen’s Hall, reintroduced both pan aficionados and those with a classical taste to two Trini-born maestros, who have successfully carved out international careers in the highly competi

Diaz: Panorama to go international next year

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz says this year’s Panorama competition will be an exciting year for steelband and will lead to the introduction of Panorama as an international pan competition in 2

Preliminaries: NORTHERN REGION Single Pan Band Music Competition

National Panorama Preliminaries for North Single Pan Bands will take place at the Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Friday 11^th January, 2013, from 7:00 p.m.  Twenty-nine bands have registered to compete.

First on stage is Brimblers. 

Tripolians in preparation for Panorama 2013

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Founded in 1971, St. James Tripolians Steel Orchestra is in serious rehearsals for the 2013 Panorama competition.

The band’s tune of choice is Say Say, composed by Winsford Devine and sung by the Baron. The selection is bei

Pan Trinbago polls await court matter

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago - A date cannot be set for Pan Trinbago elections until after its court matter has been concluded, says Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz.
 
The organisation is involved in a High Court lawsuit with four

When Steel Talks extends condolences to Kevin Browne & family on the passing of his grandmother Bernice Browne

When Steel Talks extends condolences to steelpan fraternity member Kevin Browne, and his family, on the recent loss of his grandmother Bernice Browne.  Mrs. Browne passed away in Trinidad & Tobago on the afternoon of Thursday January 3, 2013.  

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Simple Sound pans stolen in Arima

Trinidad Express

Trinidad -

SIMPLE SOUNDS steel orchestra was up to yesterday afternoon counting its losses in the midst of preparing for Panorama 2013 following the theft of a number of pans between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon.

According t

Trinidad and Tobago donates steel band to Nigeria

StarAfrica.com

Nigeria - The set of musical instruments was presented by the High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago to Nigeria, Mr. Nyahuma Obika, to President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House in Abuja on Friday.

In a message from President Ge

When Steel Talks extends our condolences to the family and friends of fallen steelpan comrade, Natalie Pierre

When Steel Talks extends our condolences to the family and friends of fallen steelpan comrade, Natalie Pierre.

Picture by Korey Vincent

Excerpt from the Tinidad & Tobago Newsday:

....According to [Marcia] Pierre, her sister [Natalie] who worked at

Cool Hand Smooth All Stars, Arranger, ‘Bounce and Drive’ on Hat-Trick Hunt

Global - To Sharon Edwards, her public and private husband is one and the same.

Cool.

Well, Leon Edwards is not known as Smooth in the pantheon of steel band lore for nothing. In the late 60s, Edwards and Clyde Boland, a Trinidad All Stars bandmate,

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