ARRANGEMENT – 40 Points
Introduction (10 Points):
The ability of the arranger to compose an appropriate introduction for the prepared calypso piece.
Re-Harmonization (10 Points):
The ability of the arranger to re-harmonize the prepared c
Read more…Pantasies Blossom In Edgewood Park
Connecticut, USA - It’s not often that the night air of Edgewood Park is filled with a crowd’s shouts of “Tequila!” Monday was one of those nights.
The Pantastic Steel Orchestra, a steel drum and percussion band, s
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Barbados, W.I. - RBC/RBTT recommitted to supporting steel pan in the 2011 Crop Over season when it extended its sponsorship for Pan in De City. At a Press Conference held at the Bank’s Corporate Office at Lower Broad Stre
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Grenada, W.I. - Eight of Grenada’s top steel orchestras vied for the coveted “Bomb Tune” competition title in what was one of the closest competitions in years. In this
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Gibraltar - Denmark may be far from tropical, yet it has produced one of the finest steel bands on the circuit – the “Steel Hammers”. Having toured across Europe, the 12-piece ensem
Rock the Boat - New Dimension - Grenada 2011 Bomb Competition Champions
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.- Former minister in the previous government administration Junia Regrello called a press conference today, in response to allegations made by Trinidad and Tobago’s Attorney General Anand Ramlogan last Friday, and notification
Congratulations to Salah's Steelpan Academy on their fifth consecutive Montreal Panorama victory.
Application number: 12/171,634
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Filing date: 11 Jul 2008
Issued patent: 7750220 (Issue date 6 Jul 2010)
An ensemble of acoustic steelpan musical instruments, being an innovation which significantly improves upon traditional acousti Read more…
‘Nuff’ Pan Pun De Sand
Barbados, W.I. - Eleven steelpan groups, including two from Trinidad and Tobago, will perform at the BS&T Pan Pun De Sand, now one of the most anticipated events of Barbados’ Crop Over Festival.
This was disclosed yesterday
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
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Perfect pitch, goes a musician joke, is throwing the banjo in the dumpster and hitting the accordion. Seriously, though, it’s a perfect combo when Jonathan Scales throws in the banjo with the do
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Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has described allegations surrounding the ownership of the patents and intellectual property rights of the G-Pan and PHI as a national scandal amounting to fraud.
A probe by the Offic
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Illinois, USA - "The Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center has been awarded a grant of $500 by the President's Discretionary Fund of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois," Laura Schweitz
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Grants keep steel pans popping
Wisconsin, USA - For 80 years, the La Crosse Community Foundation has given money to local groups to make La Crosse a better place. This year, the foundation designated $80,000 from its general fund to be used as Birt
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Before leaving home last Sunday to attend the Sagicor Exocubs’ second annual youth steelpan explosion concert, “RevelaXion 2 — Moods,” at Sagicor Exodus pan orchestra pan yard in St Augustine, I read a newspaper article abo
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Global - In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, US Virgin Islands native Le’Roi Simmonds shares insight on who he is as a musician, how his love for the steelband art form and culture developed, and what it means to him. He also dispenses s
