Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Ray Holman, esteemed composer, arranger and pan player is bringing back the old time days with his first annual Christmas 2011 musical presentation, “A True Trini Christmas” on Thursday December 8 at 6.30 pm at the newly rem
Bertram “Speedy” Ash Small was a pioneer for the steelband fraternity of New York, founding member of Humming Birds Steel Orchestra (USA) together with Ellie Mannette, founded and led EXZIBITS Steel Orchestra (USA), and former member of Desperadoes (
Read more…Is the current group of Soca artists developing a reality check?
"Have we lost the whole concept of what soca is all together melody should not be one we throw to pan alone but to MUSIC on a whole!"
Fay Ann Lyons- Alvarez
Has the musical pendulum
Read more…The results were as follows:
1st Hadeed Group of Companies AMP Halcyon
2nd Panache Steel Orchestra
3rd LIME Hells Gate Steel Orchestra
4th East Vibes Steel Orchestra
5th WIOC Gemonites Steel Orchestra
Read more…NBC’s Sing Off and the Lowering of America’s Music IQ
We are singing the “Afro Blues”
New York, USA - Much congratulations to third-season Sing Off winners - Pentatonix - they are a great group with extraordinary music acumen. With a cash purse of $
Read more…When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Rodnick "Choko" Stevens. He was an original member of New York's Sonatas Steel Orchestra.
Read more…The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - I beg to differ with the detractors who insist that Pan Trinbago is a dependent, cup-in-hand entity. On the contrary, these past few months I have observed up-close a body of passionate, hard-w
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ...Cyril Boxill or “Nick,” as he was fondly called, grew up in San Fernando. For the greater part of his life he was involved in the steelpan movement.
Small wonder he was also known as “Bredwin” due to his kind-heartedness.
WST America, WST Europe, WST Africa, WST Japan, WST Caribbean, WST Austrialia, WST South America and WST Mars... LOL
Peace and Pan!
Read more…The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Neither rain or flood last Saturday could keep the true supporters of Witco Desperadoes away from the Central Bank Forecourt when the Laventille Hill steel orchestra did a farewell concert. Tod
On last night's episode of NBC's THE SING-OFF, Afro-Blue became the most recent group to be eliminated from the competition. On numerous occasions these judges essentially said that this group, Afro Blue, was operating above their heads [the judges’]
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Those who attended the launch of the Digital Pan App on Thursday at Queen’s Hall in St. Ann’s, felt Trinidad and Tobago culture is finally stepping into the digital age.
The Digital Pan Mobile App is the only steelpan app th
RESULTS - Cayman Islands Steel Band Extrava-PAN-za Panorama Competition
held November 10, 2011 in Georgetown, Grand Cayman
Winners:
Junior Category
Senior Category
Illinois, USA - His Excellency Dr. Neil Parsan, ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United States, will attend this weekend’s concert of the NIU Steel Band.
Parsan, who is a veterinarian, contacted countryman Liam Teague a few m
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Southern Marines Steelband Foundation
2011-11-16
MEDIA RELEASE
The semi-final round of Talent Expression, the leading performance art talent competition in the South organised by the Southern Marines Steelband Foundation has been dubbed the best s
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - As the Chinese Hospital Ship “Peace Ark” was winding up its visit, appropriately entitled “Harmony”, to Trinidad and Tobago, where its doctors attended to hundreds of needy patients, a farewell function was held on board the
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Godfrey Camps was at the tender age of thirteen when he had his first brush with the national instrument of his native Trinidad & Tobago. At that time Melody Makers was situated at the corner of Coffee and Drayton street
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Dr Aurélie Helmlinger, a French ethnomusicologist, double tenor player, pan teacher and arranger involved in steelband since 1996, will deliver a presentation at Studio 66, at 66, Sixth Street, Barataria on November 16 at 7
The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Diatonic Steel Orchestra returned from a nine-day tour last month of five cities in Indiana. The tour was organised as a means of assisting the Indiana Steelband Association in establishing the
Global- The first few images in “The Illustrated Story of Pan” (288 pages) that jumped up and grabbed my eyeballs seemed eerily familiar. It wasn’t the six or seven young men scratching out the early rhythm of the steel band on paint pans, biscuit dr
