Salah's Steelpan Academy Wins 2010 Toronto Panorama
Congratulations!! to Salah's Steelpan Academy on your 4-peat. WST
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18th Cudrefin Steelband Festival showcases CSI and 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
Victor “Babu” Samuel is winning arranger! - Halcyon Steel Orchestra Wins Antigua & Barbuda 2010 National Panorama Title
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…Grenada celebrates a “Pantastic Saturday” with Bomb and Tribute Tunes for 2010
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…Halcyon Steel Orchestra wins Antigua & Barbuda Panorama 2010
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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2010 Antigua & Barbuda Steelband Panorama Line-up Set Bands strive for Glory!
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…An ‘Oops Moment’ for Steelband - New York Style! New York Steelbands left out of their own Panorama Promotion!
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…Silhouettes Steel Orchestra is back!!
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
Read more…Steelpan Great Francis “Patsy” Haynes Remembered
by Les Slater
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
Read more…Gold Mine for Future Steelpan Musicians and Others
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.
Bravo! “The Pan Man” is the real deal
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
In My House - Anise 'Halfers' Hadeed - Len "Boogsie" Sharpe - Clive Bradley
Starlift Steel Orchestra -
Arranger Anise 'Halfers' Hadeed
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Arranger Len "Boogsie" Sharpe
-------------------------- Read more…Top Steelband Leader Mack Scott honored in New York
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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August designated Steelband Month
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
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
Ace Steelpan musician Ryan Joseph is ‘Lypo Tom’ in “The Pan Man”
New York, USA - He is one of the better known faces on the New York steelpan music scene. A frontline player with the champion steel orchestra Pan Sonatas, and, one of the core members of its stage side, Ryan Joseph is additionally a member of the hi
Read more…Revisiting - Carl Chase - The Man Behind Steelpan in Maine
Carl Chase - The Man Behind Steelpan in Maine
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - He is quiet, reserved, unassuming and soft-spoken yet his passion for the steelpan and its music burns white hot. Meet Carl Chase, the man singularly responsible for the int |
Starlift Junior Steel Orchestra Triumph in Montreal
Starlift Junior Steel Orchestra captures the hearts and minds of Montréal for F.I.S.M.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - With the results of two competitions now in hand, Starlift Junior Steel Orchestra closed out the 10th Annual Montreal International Ste
Best Steel Orchestras in the World assemble at “POP Meets STEEL”
Trinidad and Tobago - Some of the world’s best and most renowned steel orchestras will be assembling in Trinidad and Tobago for command performances over two days as part of the NAPA Festival project.
Trinidad All Stars, Silver Stars, Phase II Pan G
Licks especially with a guava whip
Talking about Copper's day - he was something else as Trini's like to say. He was also the captain of the Angel Harps Steel Orchestra. In those days playing the steel pan was termed "beating pan" and it was a 'special group' of players that beat pan
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