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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Antigua & Barbuda, USA - There are few - if any - steelpan music greats that can claim that a sitting Prime Minister spoke at their funeral.
On November 13, 2008 Antigua and Barbuda national cultural icon and Harmonites pan player Leroy 'Jughead'
New York, USA - Yesterday was an added triple treat - WST (When Steel Talks) not only got to check out the newly renovated New York State Theater (David H. Koch Theater) at Lincoln center but we also got to see one of our own favorite daughters of pa
Read more…by Khalick Hewitt Mr. Diaz, congratulations to you as Pan Trinbago new president and your administration that were duly elected on October 25, 2009. I want to thank all the steelbands and their representatives who participated in this historical cha
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, WI - The Pan in Schools Coordinating Council helps to introduce new music technology to the classroom and develop young pan tuners. In 1999 a group of school teachers with a deep interest in the development of the steelpan, came t
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago, WI - On Saturday 7th November 2009, Pamberi will host a Concert at the Panyard on Santa Cruz Old Road, San Juan from 8.00 pm. “REFLECTIONS-Celebration of the life of MALCOLM ‘MALO’ SULLIVAN” is the title of the event. Malcolm was
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