“Pan in de countryside” is the latest innovation by Pan Trinbago.
As the name suggests, “Pan in de countryside” is taking steelpan to people who would not ordinarily have the opportunity to come to the city to hear bands, therefore the organization
Read more…The Buzz from the Trinidad Guardian has asked WST to post the following:
Ramah in a jam
Panman needs assistance
by The Buzz
Trinidad & Tobago - A call is going out to all panatics, social services, the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) to assis
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Observations about Panorama 2011
by Jeannine Remy
Trinidad & Tobago - ....The south stands were full of people who waited in anticipation for the large bands and all of their splendour. Never before have I attended a panorama final with so much co
by Dalton Narine
Henry “Bendix” Cumberbatch, who succumbed to heart failure Feb. 29, arranged for three steel bands in the 1980s. He reached his peak with an arrangement of Chalkdust’s “Ash Wednesday Jail,” which placed Casablanca
Read more…A WST Review
One, two, three... nine, ten. It’s over! Good night, folks...
Like a scene out of the movie Rocky, or that classic still pictu
Read more…Memories and Current Thoughts Related to Women
in the Steelpan World
by the late Clive Bradley, Arranger
Bradley reminisced about the early days of women in pan:
“The first time that I remember seeing women play Steelpan was around 1968, somewhe
An Inside View of the Small Band Panorama Season 2011
by A Eric Mc Allister
Trinidad & Tobago - I wonder if even Pan Trinbago Officials were prepared for the quality of music they got at the Larry Gomes Stadium because if they were, I doubt they
Eager to lap up the best of the Carnival 2011, tourists and locals flocked to the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on Saturday night for the much-anticipated Champs of
Read more…Celebration of Women
and the Steelpan Art Form
Dr. Dawn Batson
Trinidad - She is one of the world's foremost experts, educators and promoters of the steelpan instrument. Her name is synonymous with inspiring and guiding young musicians to achievemen
Neal & Massy T’dad All Stars scored another victory, this time in the “Bomb” competition.
The Panorama 2011 winner copped the Pan Trinbago Northern Region’s J’Ouvert Bomb Competition on Carnival Monday morning at Victoria Square, Port of Spain, wit
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Germany - In 1999, the managing board of the steel pan association pan-kultur e.V. from Dortmund asked music pedagogue Werner M. Weidensdorfer if he could offer courses for children on their premises. Being an absolute pan novice, he was confronted
Panorama 2011 - A Review by Dalton Narine
Trinidad & Tobago - The city had been sitting prettier than in recent years - smoldering, really.
Another fine Children’s Carnival; the grand Soca Monarch finals; a strident tone infiltrating through the half
When Steel Talks - News Reboot - March 11, 2011
.Among the other surprises in the collection are records by The Desperadoes Steel Orchestra, a steelband from Trinidad...
But her private music
To all the When Steel Talks members who call Japan home, our thoughts are with you.
WST
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Lessons In Steel
by Queen Macoomeh
Canada - Ah learn dat Renegades form in 1948. Ah learn it had women in de bacchanal since in de earlies. Ah read about men like Stephen "Goldteeth" Nicholson and Cecil "Dead" Hinkson. Ah read about Doctor Rat and
Once again, Pan Trinbago is inviting steelpan aficionados to relive the blink/bmobile National Panorama Finals 2011 through the DVD and CD productions.
Two disc sets featuring the Medium and Large Conventional Bands in the case of the DVDS while th
Read more…Destra, Iwer and Blaxx are among the “champs” featured this Saturday (March 12th) as Pan Trinbago stages its annual Champz of Steel +Plus at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, from 8:00pm.
The popular soca stars, champions in their own right
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Women’s Contribution to the
Steelband Movement
by Merle Albino-de Coteau
Trinidad - In the 1940’s, during our childhood we were fortunate to hear and appreciate in our neighbourhood a beautiful musical sound produced by a small pan played by Carl
PAT BISHOP - A Person In Pan
by Pat Bishop
A When Steel Talks Exclusive
Trinidad - I can’t say that gender has been a factor in my pan yard activities – which now span so long a period of time that I’ve forgotten when it all started!
I remember on
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