Happy Birthday to Eric Mannweiler

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Eric Mannweiler.  Thanks again for sharing your 2011 panorama experiences with the WST family

It’s Steelband Time in Nigeria with the Third Secondary Schools’ Panorama

Nigeria - The first day of November is a day of Steelpan in Nigeria, as the Nigerian Schools Steelband Panorama is held for the third time. Last year, seven steel orchestras participated in the event and this year, additional schools which were in th

"Thwaites Brothers" take the Steelpan on Tour to Indonesia, Jordan, Israel, North Africa and the Mid East with Nasheed Hip Hop Group "Native Deen"

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 sends Birthday Greetings to Earl La Pierre

When Steel Talks extends belated happy birthday greetings to arranger Earl La Pierre

Codringtons take crown at Pan Jazz challenge

Published by:  The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

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

Controversy mars schools’ panorama

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

Music from behind the Bridge — Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

Shannon Dudley

This chapter shows that a dynamic relatio

Happy Birthday to Val Serrant

Happy Birthday to Val Serrant from When Steel Talks

Let us be proud Copeland's a Trini - Diaz on development of G-Pan:

By Wayne Bowman

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

PDN PhotoPlus Expo - Technology, The Immediacy of Now and the Steelpan Music Movement

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

Happy Birthday to Len “Boogsie” Sharpe

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

Remembering Lovely Latavia... Despers USA Steel Orchestra Tenor bass player

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

Vignettes of Pan History - The Montreal Story

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

Dr. Geraldine Connor has passed

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 wri

Pan tuners fear the worst as drum dilemma worsens

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

Accounts and experiences of the policing and governance of the Notting Hill Carnival 2011

AES Convention Conference Program in New York - A must for the steelpan community

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/

Desperadoes fails the challenge - Steelpan Jazz Challenge preliminary results

       
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

Service for Latavia Deane of Despers USA - Gone but not forgotten

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

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Condolences to Bede Lopez

When Steel Talks extend our condolences to Bede Lopez on the passing of his mother.