UA Steel Drum Band documentaries premiering Feb. 15 on Western Reserve PBS
Ohio, USA - The history and heart of steel drum music and its journey from tropical Trinidad to northeast Ohio is the focus of “Hammer on Steel,” two programs premiering Feb
Juan Diego will host the State Steel Drum Festival
Utah, USA - Juan Diego Catholic High School will host the Utah State Steel Drum Festival, a multi-school competition featuring Caribbean-style steel drums, Feb. 12.
Bands from Juan Diego, Saint J
National Single Pan Band Preliminaries kicks off the pan competition in Tobago.
Five (5) bands have registered to compete in the friendly pan music rivalry on Friday 04 February 2010, at the Roxborough Complex, Roxborough, Tobago, from 7:00 pm.
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Thirty (30) Single Pan Bands will participate in the National Panorama Northern Region Preliminaries produced by Pan Trinbago. The event takes place at Victoria Square, Park Street, Port of Spain on Saturd
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Shades In Steel of Marabella will be the first band on stage at the South Central Single Pan Band Preliminaries.
The event comes off at the Pleasantville Community Centre Grounds on Sunda
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You want me to do what?
I found an email in my box from WST (no given name) asking if I could pen an article on the 2011 Panorama rules. My reply to this mystery person was, “Wha
Global - Mas Man Peter Minshall copped the Best Director award in the Short Documentary category at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the s
Read more…When Steel Talks was recently contacted by a well-known steelpan music academic who expressed some concern over certain tunes which have been listed in the 2011 Pan Tunes lineup.
The heading "Panorama Tunes for 2011" simply means t
The State of the Steelpan - Mark Loquan
Trinidad - I was following from afar the events unfolding in the pan world with some of the latest controversies around payment for pan players, the Ministry and Pan Trinbago appearing not to have a common v
Read more…Single Pan Bands Preliminary Panorama 2011
New York, USA - Single pan bands in the East and Tobago will begin this year’s National Panorama competitions.
Some 20 steelbands in the East will face a panel of adjudicators at the Larry Gomes Stadium
Symposium to Examine Steel Band Panorama Format
New York, USA - Panorama competitions, which engage the steel band community infinitely more than any other regularly scheduled activity, will be the focus of a symposium to be presented by the Trinida
Global - With little more than a few weeks before the largest and most popular steelband music competition in the oil-rich country of Trinidad and Tobago, the
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Trinidad Express
I have listened to Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Winston "Gypsy" Peters's take on Panorama and I can say beyond any doubt that he is the wrong person f
When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolence to Earl LaPierre-Sr. and family on the passing of his mother.
UK Pan Tuners appoints Executives
UK - The UK Pan Tuners Guild held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday 12th December 2010 at the Percy Centre in Bath. The Guild was set up by steelpan craftsmen who wish to support the development of their craft a
sung by Emmanuel “Oba” Sinnette
composed by Curtis Edwards
Verse 1
All ah them like dey getting kicks
With dey stupid pan politics
While de panman and woman working without a cent
Experiment (real patient)
And development
Pan Trinbago is issuing a reminder to steelbands who contract foreigners as players in the National Panorama competitions that they are required to pay dues.
This is outlined in Pan Trinbago’s Constitution Bye Laws under the heading Article 9 – Fee
Read more…The bands have begun to check into WST with selections for 2011 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama... Look for updates throughout the day. All bands can check in with WST at whensteeltalks@hotmail.com
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