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.  

Of

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,

Merle Albino-de Coteau's Music Makers - Top Ranking!! - Ace Theory Examination...

When Steel Talks extends condolences to our colleague

When Steel Talks extends condolences to our colleague, Basement Recordings' Lee Bennett on the recent passing of his mother. 

Lornshill Academy welcomes 30 steel drums

Stirling Observer

Lornshill’s steel drum band

Clackmannanshire, Scotland - Sounds of the Caribbean are coming to Clackmannanshire after Lornshill Academy welcomed 30 steel drums from the island of Trinidad last week.

The Ochil Steel Band will be fo

Steelband history remembered in St. James

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was an occasion for reminiscing by several elders of the steelband movement, an entity that represents the most interesting and inspiring developments in grass-roots musical creation and culture

La Brea Nightingales get sponsorship from National Gas Company, along with Couva Joylanders

Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

NGC ‘tide’ lifts La Brea, Couva

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - After years of giving financial assistance to several bands throughout Trinidad and Tobago, the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) has decided to take

Couva Joylanders gets new Pan complex

Trinidad Express Newspapers

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Players and management of Couva Joylanders Steel Orchestra are going into Panorama 2013 with new sponsorship from the National Gas Company (NGC).

As a result, the band will hold its practice sessi