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
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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…Brads Remembered; November 26, 2005 -- The pan world has lost it's signature voice. Bradley embodied the spirit of panorama. It's inconceivable to envision panorama without him. Somewhere seeping through the canopies, you'll hear echoes of his artis
Read more…St. Vincent & The Grenadines, WI. - CELEBRATE! with Starlift and friends is a concert that brings together the steel pans of St. Vincent’s 42-year old Starlift Steel Orchestra and the harmonies of the mixed New Kingstown Chorale and the all-female ch
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New York, USA - Imagine the great Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, champion arranger for the famed Phase Two Pan Groove conducting an intense panorama practice on a hot Summer night with New York’s Moods Pan Groove at their Brooklyn panyard. Mr. Sharpe is givin
New York, USA - First off: Jonathan Scales is a bad man. He traveled for 12 hours from South Carolina to drop his brand of Jazz /rock/fusion in New York at “The Shrine” in Harlem for a six o’clock performance. If you are going to perform musically in
Read more…Champion Steelband Arranger Yohan Popwell in the Spotlight New York, USA - He is the arranger for one of the top steel orchestras in America, Sonatas. And in 2009 he made a clean sweep by capturing championship titles in steelband music Panoramas i
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It has been 48 hours since the Friday the 13th Steelband Massacre when the NYC pan community was body slammed and kicked in the ass. They lost their lollypop and all their panorama prize money - thousands of dollars worth, that is. Quite frankly, no
Panorama Promoters say - No money for you!
In a move that only a Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, Al Capone, or recently convicted felon, former New York police commissioner Bernard “Bernie” Kerik and /or the other Wall Street notorious corporate thugs, wou
Rhythm Café Steel Drums: A Community Celebration taking place on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Washington, DC from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The feature presenter, Dr. Kim Johnson, is a leading researcher on steel
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