St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - The Elite Steel Orchestra, one of the well known Orchestras in SVG, has been making contributions to the future of Pan for years.
A fixture in the Panorama competition at Carnival, the orchestra is responsible
Read more…Global - The Thwaites Brothers recently toured Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Medan, Indonesia with Nayshid band "Native Deen". The group is currently on a world tour supporting their latest release "The Remedy". Native Deen performed for audiences estim
Read more…New book on the legendary orchestra coming soon
Port of Spain, Trinidad, W.I. - Invaders Steel Orchestra is calling on local and foreign pan players to assist Dr. Jeannine Remy, Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Creative and Festival A
Read more…Posted by Andre Williams on March 7, 2012 at 1:52pm in News
Police cleared
Trinidad Newday
By RESHMA BAAL Wednesday, March 7 2012
POLICEMEN allegedly involved in a fracas on the Greens at the Queen’s Park
Read more…Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form
My name is Dotsie Isaac Gellizeau. I am an Antiguan mother, a sister, a wife, a writer and above all else a - renaissance woman. Women doing their natural
Read more…A SteelpanVibes interview by Barbara Sealy Rhoden
Florida, USA - ....It was during my student tenure in England in the early 1970s, as fate would have it I became a member of the Ebony Steelband. But, with the social stigma attached to the steelban
Global - “Do you want me to lose my job?” That was the reaction Clifford Alexis remembers he and the man who was his mentor at Northern Illinois University (NIU), Prof. Al O’Connor, g
Jamettes …
Steelband Essentials
By Barbara Sealy Rhoden
History is replete with examples of the outstanding African woman, who not only cared for their family, she ruled nations with justice, fortitude and wisdom. Moreover, she consorted wit
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Six cultural icons have been honored by the National Carnival Commission (NCC) for their outstanding contribution to the Carnival art form spanning more than a century.
....Those honored were calypso veterans, Robert Nelson
Read more…Clive Bradley, Arranger
Bradley reminisces about the early days of women in pan
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"The first time that I remember seeing women play Steelpan was around 1968, somewhere around
Mrs. Merle Albino-de Coteau is a retired Director of Culture, in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Women's Affairs. She is a daughter of the soil having being |
There are a collective few who bear the distinction of being universally recognized as members of that unique, and special fraternity we at When Steel Talks refer to as Giants and Titans of “Pan and the Steelpan Movement.” Through their intellect, ta
An excerpt from The Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan History and Evolution by Dr FIR (Fedo) Blake reads: “The most successful female venture in the steel pan movement was made by the Girl Pat Steel Orchestra of Hazel Henley of Picton Street, Newtown. Sh
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Although he is widely credited with sinking the first pan, there has been an ongoing debate concerning his role in pioneering steelpan music. This debate is especially heated among supporters of the late, Winston “Spree” Simon, whom many Trinidadians
St. Lucia Voice News
St. Lucia, W.I. - Monty Maxwell, guitarist, composer, steel pan arranger, and jazz and blues musician, was born in the southern town of Vieux Fort, St. Lucia. He grew up next to a pan yard or steel band shed, so from an early age
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday:
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - With a new sponsor for 2012 Carnival, the Junior Sammy Group Skiffle Steel Orchestra, recently created history by becoming the first steel band in San Fernando to win every steel band competition s
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Over the years, the staging of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago (TT) has been has been costing the State an average of $100 million annually. This has caused questions to be asked about the success
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian:
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Veteran panman Milton “Wire” Austin is recuperating at the San Fernando General Hospital after toppling off a wrecker on Carnival Monday night. The leader of the San Fernando-based Fonclaire Steel
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