Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Twenty three (23) North Bands competing in the Small and Medium Conventional steel orchestra prelimin
When Steel Talks extends condolences to family and friends of veteran journalist and WST member Keith Smith.
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra and Scrunters Pan Groove both tied for the top spot in the recent Single Pan Band preliminaries for the Northern Region. The two bands and twelve others now join other semi-finalis
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Four steel bands in the South/Central region have advanced to the National Single Pan Bands Semi Finals.
The bands are Self Help Marines, Rio Claro Koskeros, Shades In Steel and Fyzabad 4th Dimension.
Self Help Marines of Po
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The preliminary stages for the Single Pan Band competition have been completed. In the Eastern region, San Juan East Side Symphony under the baton of Duvone
There has been a change in venue for the Tobago leg of the National Single Pan Preliminaries.
The event carded for today Friday (4th February will now be held at the respective panyards of the participating steelbands. The competition was originall
Read more…From Gregory Lindsay
Greetings ...
An important update to the WST community
Please permit my frankness and brevity for an independent update to the WST diaspora from the ground in Port-of-Spain yesterday at an emergency meeting held yesterday at Com
Read more…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
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