Happy Brithday to Mr. Scott of Sonatas Steel Orchestra
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Mr. Mac Scott of Sonatas Steel Orchestra.
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BIRCH KELMAN SPEAKS
The following interview was published in the newspaper of the Committee for Labour Solidarity: HOLD THE FORT ((Vol. 3 no. 4 June 1985). This website thinks the interview is worth reproducing for its historical and cultural value.
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NAS President Anthony Hinds speaks on NY Steelband Panorama Issues
Open letter to the Caribbean Community from Anthony “Ike” Hinds of Dem Stars Steel Orchestra and National Alliance of Steelbands (NAS)
New York, USA - ...For nearly 40 years, on the Saturday before Labor Day nearly a thousand of our family, friends
International Marimba and Steelpan Festival 2012 - South Africa
South Africa will be blown away by the marimbas and steelpans at the Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival.
It will be held at Bishop Bavin School in Bedfordview, Gauteng on 4 and 5 August 2012.
Be prepared for over 1 000 marimba
WIADCA Speaks - The True Situation On Panorama: Setting the Record Straight
By Thomas Bailey, President, West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) - NY Carib News
In recent months there has been a lot of criticism heaped upon the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA). Some of that criticism has
Read more…Revisted - Meet Soluna Garnes - Panist, Musician, Educator & Trinidad and Tobago’s Cultural Attaché to Brazil
Brazil, SA - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Pioneer, Musician, Arranger and Conductor - Soluna Garnes shares her experiences, visions and overall thoughts as she takes on the challenge of introducing the Steelpan to the country of B
Sixty-one to Graduate from Music School in the Panyard
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- It is graduation time for 61 youngsters attached to the Humming Bird Pan Groove Steel Orchestra Music School in the Panyard Camp. The youths ranging from six to sixteen years will receive certificates after successfully compl
Read more…Interest Groups Respond to Minister Lincoln Douglas
We view with disappointment and dismay recent statements by the new Minister of The Arts and Multiculturalism, The Honourable Dr. Lincoln Douglas, about (1) Carnival and (2) meetings and proposals from us. Whilst we seek no war of words or anything e
Read more…Is WIADCA the Evil Empire?
Carnival’s Steelband Panorama Competition in Doubt
By: Tony Best - NY's Carib News
Less than six weeks before the colorful West Indian carnival is put on full display before more than a million spectators in Brooklyn, serious doubts have arisen
Read more…Music training for kids at Redemption panyard in Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Tobago, W.I. - The RBC Redemption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra recently launched its annual July-August holidays, “Redemption Academy Pan Camp” for children ages five and up.
The camp will run for four to five weeks after
Read more…Pan music on a higher note
Trinidad Express
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Patrons who paid $50 to attend "Pan on A Higher Note" at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain on Saturday evening left smiling, having got more than their money's worth.
The co
Time to tender for Carnival? Minister Lincoln Douglas causes a stir...
By Wayne Bowman - Trinidad Express
Recently installed Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism, Dr Lincoln Douglas left listeners perplexed when he said during the launch of Tribe Mas Band's C2K13 presentation Butterflies, Beasts, Bacchanal on Satur
Back In Time - ‘90s in the House of Pantonic: New York steel bands come out to play- Wet-fete & all!
Brooklyn, New York, USA - So not even the torridness of the then-unfolding heat wave or the downpour of rain, could put a ‘damper’ on last weekend’s Pan fete. It was “Back in Times” through the ‘90s, New York style. Yes it has begun - “Pan in New Yor
Destination Montreal - Festival International de Steelpan de Montreal 2012 in Review
Canadians Celebrate Steelpan Music at Week-Ends du Monde
Montreal, Canada - They danced, they sang, they smiled broadly, as they cheered and clapped and they listened intently - but mostly their hearts, bodies and souls were filled with the joyous
Read more…Media asked to leave Pan Trinbago meeting
Trinidad Guardian - Published:
Monday, July 16, 2012
Members of the media were ordered out of a meeting of Pan Trinbago yesterday at the Scherzando panyard in Curepe. The meeting was called following allegations levelled against Pan Trinbago presiden
Read more…WIADCA out of the Panorama business?
As quietly as it has been kept, the New York 2011 panorama participants have still not been paid all of the prize monies owed to them.
Talk about things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Read more…Happy Birthday to Jared McCallister
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to journalist Jared McCallister
Read more…2012 St. Lucia Panorama Results
Babonneau Steel Orchestra retains St. Lucia title; Harmonites repeats win in Small Band Category
Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, W.I. - St. Lucia’s 2012 National Panorama saw steel orchestras competing in the large band category and in the small category.
Mas Man Final Cut, a film on Peter Minshall’s Carnival of Humanity, premieres at Brooklyn Fest
Director and Panman Dalton Narine unveils
‘Mas Man - The Complete Work’
Global - It is the only film about a man from a tiny Caribbean island who reached 80 percent of the planet in a single night. And it premieres at 7 P.M., Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Ar
PM Kamla disagrees with President Ricards on 'steelpan the only TT innovation' - Opposition leader Rowley comments in response
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Trinidad & Tobago - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar..."respectfully" disagreed with President George Maxwell Richards.
Richards, addressing both Houses of Parliament, stated that "except for the steelpan, we have b
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