Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - On August 26, from 4 pm, City Sunvalley Steel Orchestra will host Celebrating the Icons of Nelson Street, on Nelson Street, Port-of-Spain. The day’s programme features 2012 National Panorama champi
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan’s future expansion lies not in the 1.2 million nation of TT, but in the 170 million people of Nigeria and other West African nations.
Africans who have learned much about the pan were at Wedne
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Tennessee, USA - The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago is far away—geographically and culturally—from Iowa or Tennessee, for that matter.
Nevertheless, Hawkeye State native Tony Hartman has embraced the islands, making the steelp
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Transparency, integrity issues blamed
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Two members of the Pan Trinbago central executive have resigned with immediate effect, citing an absence of transparency and integrity as reasons for their dep
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St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - For the participants in the 2012 Grenada Bomb Tune competition, and those who had the good fortune to be there in person to experience it, the show was probably a good one, if 2011 and other past Bomb Tune competitions w
Bangin’ the drum for 29 years
Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, USA - As the Percussion and Steel Band Academy students arrive at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor, they begin meeting new mentors, making new friendships, learning new music, ex
Read more…Pan Trinbago Inc. will be launching its new subsidiary.
The entity, the Africa Trinidad &Tobago Steelpan Development Company Limited (ATTSDC), will be introduced to the Trinidad & Tobago community today, Tuesday 10th July, at the Hyatt Regency, Wrig
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Stone St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, in Hayes Road, will use the cash to buy equipment for the band. |
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Land-grant College Anniversary Celebration Includes Cultural Dimension
Washington D.C., USA - Considering the steel pan drum originated in Trinidad and Tobago, few people associate the state of West Virginia with steel drum band
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Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - More than a hat-trick, to make their own mark on history, steel orchestras from St. Vincent & the Grenadines will now have to surpass the ‘beaver trick’—four championships in a row—racked up by the 2012
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The recent Birdsong annual Scholarship Benefit Concert was one of the best productions staged at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium of the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA) since its openin
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A number of years ago, Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove rocked the Queen’s Park Savannah at the National Panorama final playing Birthday Party. Last Saturday night, Hamilton Street in Woodbrook rocked
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West Virginia, USA - Surely you haven’t heard “Country Roads” quite like this.
The sounds of every Mountaineer’s favorite John Denver song are resonating through the nation’s capital in an Afro-Caribbean flavor, courtesy of the West Virgi
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New York, USA - A Taste of Tantz, the official launch of Tantz catering in the form of an elegant Jardin Soirée at Garden 54 in Brooklyn, New York, was the place to be whether you were already down with the
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago continues its “Pan in de Countryside” series with two events in Tobago. The first comes off at the Charlotteville Recreation Ground, on Saturday 7th July from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Steelbands scheduled to per
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Trinidad & Tobago Newsday Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In 1951, an era when young middle-class women were kept far away from the steelband movement, “Ellie” Robertson joined the Girl Pat Steel Orchestra, the first all women steelband formed in Trinidad |
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
Tobago, W.I. - On Tuesday June 19 members of Our Boys Steel Orchestra of Tobago began a European tour that would see the band performing and holding a series of workshops over a two-month period.
The group compris
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to ajudicator, arranger, musician and educator Merle Albino-de Coteau
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Music Schools in the Panyard Programme began with a bang on Monday with citizens of all creeds, races and ages converging at the designated panyards to grasp the opportunity of learning to pla
