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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Panorama Notes
by Dalton Natine
Trinidad & Tobago - The 2011 Panorama wormed its way through the Carnival, resistant to salt in its wounds. So it didn’t fold and die. Or tip open a Pandora’s Box of unbridled angst.
Panorama came home and made us c
Read more…Congrats to Katzenjammers & Valley Harps - 2011 Medium Band Joint Panorama Champions
click for Panorama 2011Results: Medium Category - http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2011/results/2011summaryresults.htm#medium
Read more…Congratulations to Trinidad All Stars - 2011 Large Band Conventional Category
click for Panorama 2011 Results: Large Band category -http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2011/results/2011summaryresults.htm#large
Read more…After a horrendous performance in 2010 for the national panorama in Trinidad and Tobago,video production and post-production company Advance Dynamics stepped up to the plate and delivered a quality product in its live internet broadcast of the event.
Read more…Q: Let’s go back to Boogsie for a moment. You started to say earlier that he is an anomaly...
Robertson: Boogs
http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2011/results/2011summaryresults.htm#small
Last evening’s event at the Larry Gomes Stadium Car Par, Arima, also f
Read more…San Juan East Side Symphony is the undisputed blink/bmobile Nation
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