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New Rochelle, New York, USA - The 16-piece steelband orchestra, five-time champion of the prestigious Panorama competition, performs an astounding array of musical selections – from Caribbean to jazz, R&B, popular and rap on steel
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Tortola, British Virgin Islands - A night that was scheduled to feature several local and regional steel bands was a bust, where there were no performances by any steel bands and no announcement from the festival committee
Read more…Antigua Observer
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - A showdown is brewing between communications giants Digicel and LIME as the latter contests Digicel’s title sponsorship of the newly renamed Digicel Halcyon Steel Orchestra.
On Monday, LIME, the title spons
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Global - It’s time once more for the annual Antigua & Barbuda National Panorama competition, and six steel orchestras will vie for the 2012 championship title on August 2 at Carnival City in St. John’s. East Vibes Steel Orchestra is expected to throw
Global - For Antigua & Barbuda’s 2012 Panorama season, ace musician Khan Cordice has arranged the legendary King Short Shirt’s 1987 Road March, J’Ouvert Rhythm. It is now the tune of choice for Cordice’s band Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra, in the 2012
Global - The National Panorama in Grenada comes off August 11 in St. George’s, the country’s capital. Eight of the country’s most notable steel orchestras will meet once more as they match musical wits in this major annual steelband competition.
The
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Mr. Mac Scott of Sonatas Steel Orchestra.
Read more…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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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
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
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
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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
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…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…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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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