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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
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
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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
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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
Read more…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
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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
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
National Panorama Preliminaries for North Single Pan Bands will take place at the Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Friday 11th January, 2013, from 7:00 p.m. Twenty-nine bands have registered to compete.
First on stage is Brimblers.
Read more…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
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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 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
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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
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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
Read more…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
Read more…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, When Steel Talks extends condolences to our colleague, Basement Recordings' Lee Bennett on the recent passing of his mother.
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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
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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
