CRIME has forced the Witco Desperadoes to flee their Laventille Hill home after more than 60 years and seek refuge in Belmont, officials of the panside said yesterday. The ’pride of Laventille’ will now be based in Belmont as they prepare for next y
Read more…Vocalist and Performer Edwin Ayoung Speaks on Pan and Steelband Panorama Music Global - Veteran recording artist, composer and performer Edwin “Crazy” Ayoung is one of the most versatile and respected practitioners of the art of singing and composin
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, WI - Come carnival 2010 Fitz-Gerald Sparks would be 79 years young and still playing tenor pan for his beloved Starlift Steelband for panorama even though he is confined to walking on crutches over the last eight years. “Daddy Spa
Read more…WIADCA delivers the Goods to Steels Orchestra and Masqueraders Fraternity
New York, USA - “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire - Jack Frost nipping at your nose.” Ooops! Got caught up with the moment. Well, what do you expect with the city blanketed
Brooklyn, New York - Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph with Santa in tow were spotted flying over central Brooklyn as part of a detour and music break to catch some prime time steelband music. If the truth be t
Read more…New York, USA - There has been a seismic shift in the balance of the equation as we lost another great one. Indeed, this loss is close to home and is personal to many of us who have come through When Steel Talks/Basement Recordings. Educator, intelle
Read more…The Association celebrated their annual awards ceremony at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, London. 2009 marked the 11th anniversary of the awards, which was established to celebrate the successes of bands and individuals and, in recognizing excellence
Read more…London, UK - Caribbean Steel International (CSI) held their second annual Thank You party at the Emerald Centre in Beadon Road, Hammersmith, London, W6 on Friday 4th December 2009. DJs on the night included Martin Jay, Mike Forbes, DSI and W.I Connec
Read more…Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, WI - “Panaide - The Benefit Concert” is an event in which sponsored steelbands in Port-of-Spain and environs perform in a showcase with the aim of raising funds to assist the unsponsored bands in that geographical location.
Read more…New York, USA - So it is that time of the year again. The time of year when, like the monitoring of a growing teenager, we get to see the telling notches of growth, progress and success up against the wall - for CASYM Steel Orchestra. At last, it i
Read more…New York, USA - Indeed the title of this article is a shocker for some. Did an initial set of confusion rush to your brain? Did you rub your eyes twice to check what you were reading? Good!! Ah - but imagine for a moment that twelve months ago famed
Read more…New York, USA - In closing out what has been one of the most challenging years of its 42 years existence, the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) will distribute prizes to all winners of the annual Labor Day Parade and festival. Th
Read more…
New York, USA - He is one of the esteemed champion arrangers of the Golden Era of pan. His name, like the other great ones, carries much respect and recognition. And like his fellow famed steelband music panorama arrangers - one name will suffice as
New York, USA - It is a Friday evening in early December in the Kensington part of Brooklyn - actually the center of Brooklyn, and the steelpan is again about to take front and center at the beautiful Calvary Cathedral of Praise. This show is bille
Read more…THEME : "Leh we go back, to loving pan." This was a song I had done 10 years ago which was in raw form as a demo with only a melody. It was intended for an album after Passion for Pan, which I never completed. I pulled it out of the cobweb, and the
Read more…At the moment the Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Symphony Orchestra (TTNSSO) is the only band in the country that use them exclusively. The TTNSSO has had limited public exposure so the population at large cannot form an opinion on the value of t
Read more…BAS has invited the newly elected President of Pan Trinbago, Mr Keith Diaz, to visit London to meet with bands here – and he’s accepted! Accompanying him will be External Relations Officer, Keith St Cyr, and Secretary, Richard Forteau. This is the fi
Read more…Steelpan & Parang at St. Gregory’s New York, USA - If you are going to spend the holiday season in New York, you are sure to be able to catch a steelband music concert. The first of a series of such concerts took place at St. Gregory's in Brooklyn o
Read more…Global - Free from Bondage, Writers Flex Creative Muscle. Leading the charge is none other than veteran performers and stalwarts - steelband music song writers like Crazy, The Original DeFosto Himself, Designer, Destra, “Smooth,” Goddard and many ot
Read more…Antigua & Barbuda, WI - Hardly a country in the world can say that it has not been impacted in some way by the severe downturn in the economy within the last twelve months. With several businesses reeling from the effects of this still-ongoing circ
Read more…
