Global - It would be an understatement to say that the Thwaites Brothers are actively promoting steel pan all across the globe. Better, they’re sweetening the planet with Pan! As musicians within Native Deen, they have performed in eleven (11) countr
When Steel Talks extends belated happy birthday greetings to arranger Earl La Pierre
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Codrington Pan Family has won The First Citizens International Steelpan Jazz Challenge, taking home the first prize of $50,000. The other six finalists—Starlift, Couva Joylan
St. John’s Antigua- Eleven bands, two winners and another judging controversy.
The 2011 Independence Schools Steel Band Competition saw a keenly contested battle for top honours and bragging rights, but the event was marred by logistical snags and a
Read more…Print publication date: 2007
Print ISBN-13: 9780195175479
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195175479.001.0001
The Steelband Movement and Music
This chapter shows that a dynamic relatio
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Pan Trinbago president Keith Diaz believes the steelband fraternity and the nation at large should be thankful it was Prof Brian Copeland who developed the G-Pan and not someone in some foreign university.
Diaz also told the Express o
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New York, USA - Terry Joseph, the late entertainment editor for the Trinidad and Tobago national newspaper the Trinidad Express, once joked while lamenting (simultaneously impressed and irritated) that, in going through his normal routine after takin
When Steel Talks extends Happy Birthday greetings (October 28) to the great Len “Boogsie” Sharpe. When Steel Talks (WST) has had the great fortune of interacting with “Boogsie” on different levels for years. Enjoy your day, and thanks for being in W
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New York, USA - .- Miguel Reyes’s The Last Band sung by Peter D’Royce was the last Panorama piece lovely Latavia Deane got to perform with Despers USA Steel Orchestra, when the band competed in the 2010 New York Panorama. A song that makes one dance
Pan magazine (the brain child of Dalton Narine and Les Slater) remains simply the finest steelpan music publication ever printed. WST revisits another article from the magazine originally published in the Fall of 1987. Thanks again to Dalton Narin
When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Geraldine Connor; she was a massive steelpan music icon and force in the performing arts. In addition, Dr. Connor was a member of the WST family.
On her WST bio she wriRead more…
Pan tuners fear the worst as drum dilemma worsens | The Trinidad Guardian
The nation's pan tuners are sounding the alarm that their livelihood is in jeopardy. Hundreds of pan tuners continue to be negatively affected by the continuing shortage of qua
Read more…AES Convention Conference Program Starts Today... If you can attend.
Every steel orchestra should send a representative to the conference.
http://www.aes.org/events/131/
The Brass Line of Republic Bank Exodus complements
the ensemble’s musical fusion of Kitchener’s “12 Bar Joan”
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Although guests commented favourably about the evening’s performances, many expressed disappointme
Latavia Deane- March 18, 1993-October 9, 2011 - Gone But Not Forgotten.
SERVICE IS TODAY Oct 18
Viewing: 4:00PM-6:00PM
Service: 6:00PM-9:00PM @Cross Over Ministry (Bethel House Of Prayer)
2179 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY
When Steel Talks extend our condolences to Bede Lopez on the passing of his mother.
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Meet Iman Pascall - Steel Panist Extraordinaire - Up-close!
New York, USA - She is young, gifted, extremely intelligent, self-aware, self-assured, eloquent, very humble and respectful. Blessed with an abundance of talent to match her beauty, this s
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Steelpan soloist extraordinaire Noel La Pierre departed Trinidad and Tobago en route to Shanghai, China to represent T&T steel pan culture at the 13th Shanghai performing Arts Festival (SPAF) 2011. Recently, La Pierre was f
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