Notting Hill CarnivalEngland - This year's Notting Hill Carnival steel band competition will not be held in Hyde Park due to a lack of funds. Organisers said the Panorama event on 28 August would be held in Horniman's Pleasance Park instead as the b
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CSI at the Trafalgar Square Pan Jamboree 2010England - BAS celebrated its tenth anniversary of hosting their BAS/GLA Steelband Jamboree in Trafalgar Square this year. Over the past ten years BAS has fully supporte
Despers USA Steel Orchestra Launch - Ready for 2010
Steelband Musical Superiority is the goal
Performing at Sonatas’ Sports DayNew York, USA - It’s on! The New York steelband music summer season is in full effect. “Come good or don’t come out at all
Pan Sonatas Steel Orchestra - Sports Day
New York Steelband Fraternity Come Together
for Fun, Fun Fun
Steelpan musicians battle for basketball supremacy on Sonatas’ Sports DayNew York, USA - Have you ever wondered - what does a world-class performin
Congratulations!! to Salah's Steelpan Academy on your 4-peat. WST
Read more…Switzerland - On Saturday 24th July 2010, the Cudrefin Steel Band Festival was held at Les Pampanas, Cudrefin, a municipality in the district of Avenches in the canton (member state) of Vaud in Switzerland.
....2010 saw this steel band festival cele
St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - No one was happier last night when it was announced that Halcyon Steel Orchestra had won the Antigua & Barbuda 2010 National Panorama competition, than the Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, the Honorable Baldw
Read more…St. George’s, Grenada, W.I. - Grenada's top steel orchestras are gearing up this year for a major competition. Dubbed "Pan Explosion 2010,” each steel orchestra plays their "BOMB TUNE" for a maximum of six minutes, and with forty-five players at mo
Read more…Congratulations to Halcyon Steel Orchestra.
Halcyon Steel Orchestra wins Antigua & Barbuda Panorama 2010. Hells Gate comes in second, and Gemonites Steel Orchestra cops third place!
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St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - Five of Antigua & Barbuda’s best known steel orchestras each take their place in the spotlight on Thursday July 29 as they vie for championship honors in the annual steel band music panorama competition. The even
Read more…Picture of Grenada's Republic Harps Steel Orchestra - promoting New York's 2010 Panorama on WIADCA's siteIADNew York - It has been brought to WST’s attention that the 2010 promo for the upcoming September 4 New York Panorama on the promoter’s site -
Read more…As might be remembered during the seventies, eighties and nineties Silhouettes were known as one of the most powerful Steelbands on the road in Brooklyn, New York for the Labor Day carnival and also in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade. This yea
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October 29 (editor’s note this article was originally published in 1987) will mark two years since we bade farewell to Francis “Patsy” Haynes — a name of which a lot more of us should have been more keenly aware. A lot more of us shoul
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Trinidad & Tobago, W. I. - In July 2010 the Music Literacy Trust has now undertaken another bold initiative in community development by launching a music workshop with 7 primary schools and 1 secondary school in the heart of downtown Port-of-Spain.
New York, USA - Yes, yes, yes... The musical “The Pan Man” is the real deal. Entertaining, educational, moving and provocative, this thought-provoking musical drama takes the audience on an enthralling, fantastic, authentic historical journey about
Starlift Steel Orchestra -
Arranger Anise 'Halfers' Hadeed
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New York, USA - ....Recently, Pan Sonatas’ (formerly Sonatas) success and unwavering commitment to excellence were recognized when leader and president Mack Scott was one of four distinguished honorees recognized for Caribbean-American Heritage Mon
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - August 2010 will be a busy month for the steelpan and Pan Trinbago as the governing body observes Steelband Month “Total Local.” The celebration, in commemoration of the 18th Anniversary of the declaration of the Steelpan a
The Show Must Go On! - Power of the Steelpan
2010 Montreal International Steelpan Festival in Full Review
Quebec, Canada - The words “the show must go on” have never rung with more truth and urgency than with this year's Montreal International Stee
