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Web Posted -  Friday December  31, 2005
When Steel Talks - Special
A Special End of Year
 Steelpan CD OFFER!
 

The popular Pan In New York Yard Recordings Series is available in a special limited "no frills" offer!  This particular opportunity provides the CDs with on-disc printing only and in slim-line jewel cases with no artwork.  Purchase the 3-CD (Pan In New York 2002, 2003 and 2004) compilation - and receive the Pan In New York 2005 CD as an added bonus - FREE!
All compilation orders must be in by 12:00 PM - midnight Eastern Standard Time - January 7, 2006.

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Web Posted -  Friday December  23, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

A Warmer side of Christmas
for Pan Knights Steel Orchestra

New York - The stage side of one of Trinidad's best known steel orchestras, Pan Knights, will be "Christmasing" in a slightly warmer environment for 2005.  The steel orchestra is based in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, but the upcoming holiday will find the twenty-member steel orchestra in Calabar, capital of Cross River State in Nigeria, Africa.  The orchestra will be there to join in Cross River State's Christmas Festival and Carnival by invitation of the state governor, Donald Duke. 
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Web Posted -  Thursday December  22, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

I Remember

I'm listening to a recording of Carib Pan Jammers playing "One for De Savannah," their 1997 Panorama tune. It's bringing back a feeling of nostalgia from the days when I knew nothing about the inner workings of the pan fraternity: the trash-talking, the womanizing, the politics, the favoritism, the controversies, or any of that. I can remember spending hours watching my '97 Panorama video and being amazed at the pannists, especially the basses. It wasn't about watching the guys... it was about the amazing passion the players showed, the marvelous music, and the synchronization of the bass players hands as they did their thing.

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Web Posted -  Wednesday December  21, 2005
 When Steel Talks Special

Tribute To Mr. Bradley

by - Andy Narell

Bradley gone. What do you say about composers when they're gone? I'm not much for speeches. But I was a fan and we were casual friends. Like everybody else I just want to throw in my two cents, say goodbye.

As far as I know Bradley couldn't play pan at all, had never even bothered to learn. But it was obvious that the guy had the feeling for steelband music. He understood orchestration and what makes a steelband swing. The thing I always loved about his music was its straightforwardness - elegant, simply stated. LIke he had enough respect for his ideas to let them stand on their own. Less is more. Make the music sweet.

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Web Posted -  Wednesday December  21, 2005
 Trinidad Express

Pan Trinbago settles
with Mighty Terror


Trinidad  - Calypsonian The Mighty Terror has won his battle with Pan Trinbago for payment for the playing of three of his calypsoes at a World Steelband concert.

The 2002 concert which attracted a large crowd at the Jean Pierre Complex, Port of Spain, was organised by Pan Trinbago to highlight the achievement of the steelband movement and drew bands from several other countries.

Three of Terror's tunes were played: "Pan Talent", "Last Year's Happiness", and "Steelband Jamboree".

Terror, 85, said yesterday a final settlement of $30,000 had been reached by Pan Trinbago.

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Web Posted -  Monday December  19, 2005
 The Virginian-Pilot

Rhythm: Students encouraged to be themselves

Richardson is a senior at Phoebus High School in Hampton. He’s been with The Rhythm Project All Stars , a group of mostly high school steel band students, for about five years. He said he’s trying to figure out how he can play the steel drums, either professionally or in college, once he graduates.

He describes himself as a former class clown who “used to get in trouble” and would get C’s and “an occasional F.” Now, he says, he gets B’s and even A’s .
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Web Posted -  Monday December  19, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Clive Bradley -
The Higher Level

by - Mrs. Merle Albino-de Coteau

Trinidad - As I mentioned before many people are speaking only about his association with Despers, but according to my brother Aldwin Albino they are forgetting the higher level.

Bradley was academically sound. So great was he that after being a student at the Gov't Training College and passing with distinction in his subjects he was recalled- this time as a lecturer in Mathematics. He also taught Math at the Catholic Women's Teachers College where I lectured in Music.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 19,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Editorial

Editorial

Time To Honour Clive Bradley
At Museum's Entrance

Many ideas about a proper memorial are being entertained for master musician Clive Bradley since his passing. And we are sure many more will be explored in the near and further future.  Mr. Bradley won a record ten New York panorama competitions among his many other accomplishments as recently reported in the New York Times.  Nine of these wins took place on the Brooklyn Museum grounds.  In this regard, nothing short of a life-like memorial statue and site honoring the master at the entrance of the Brooklyn Museum would adequately address this giant's significance and work.

Clive Bradley, a former educator, was internationally known and respected for his musical accomplishments with the steelband orchestras.  Mr. Bradley was an advocate for academic achievement and music literacy.  This intellectual's music masterpieces brought together group of citizens from many walks of life globally. 

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Web Posted -  Sunday December 18,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special  -- Republished With Permission


The man who helped shape the musical direction of Panorama. (1982)
by Knolly Moses


(PANMEDIA FEATURES):- His preferred drink is rum and coke though he sips a beer in the pan tent this particular night. Standing a slight five feet three inches in sandals, he peers through round, brown glasses. Cigarette smoke punctuates every word of his flat, nearly monotone voice. And while he engages in lively repartee with band members, he does not tolerate skylarking. "You are losing concentration," he warns an embarrassed double second pan player.

It's now abundantly clear that Clive Bradley takes his music seriously. At 46, he is the only winner of four Panorama championships and believes he was robbed of three others. Perhaps as much as anyone else. Bradley is responsible for Desperadoes supremacy among steelbands today.

Yet, there is no arrogance, no boastfulness, just the quiet confidence from a competitive edge secured. "When you have been doing this as long as I have," he tells a writer in Brooklyn, New York, "you figure out the formula." But 14 years after Desperadoes lured him up "the Hill" to arrange "Mr. Walker," steelband music may lose his abundant talent to high technology.

 [more]
Web Posted -  Sunday December 18,  2005
 Trinidad Express


The ghost of Panoramas past
Lovelace serenades Clive Bradley's musical genius and conjures up...


Trinidad - Up to now I cannot think of Bradley dead, perhaps because he has always been not so much a physical presence as an emotional one and what he asked us to focus on was not Bradley the person but the music that was as much ours as his. I see him in impish elegance on the Panorama stage conducting his band, standing not inside the music like Boogsie with his break-dancer's twitch, possessing and being possessed by every nuance of his rhythms and melody, his seismic nerves electric responding to every touch of the pans, but outside it, even above it, with the pleasure of a host who has prepared a banquet for his guests in his house of music and escorts us through its courses, guiding us with the enthusiasm of his delight at the offered fare.... [more]
Web Posted -  Sunday December 18,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special


ogun lives on

for Clive Bradley [1936-2005]

 Veteran Steelband Arranger


Dr. Roi Ankhkara Kwabena

was up spring flow road

we met and it was raining

sxango was peeling. So

 

we sheltered under a mango tree

discussing heritage issues

both adamant of the need

to protect the arts for prosperity

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Web Posted -  Thursday December 15,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Teacher inspires band of steel


United Kingdom - MUSICIANS from Bushey Meads School have been presented with special awards for their outstanding achievement and exemplary work in the community.

Members of the school's senior steel pan band have received the newly instated Michael Toussaint Award for Steel Pan Skills and Service to the Community.

The students have learned to play the steel pans from scratch and during the past two years have conducted workshops for other students and have gone out into the community to perform and share their skills.

Their achievements are all the more remarkable because their teacher, Michael Toussaint, is blind.

He is the only blind tenor pannist in the world.

[more]
Web Posted -  Thursday December 15,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

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Web Posted -  Friday December 16,  2005
 Trinidad Express
 
$49 million for pan in schools
 
Anna Ramdass
 
Trinidad - Cabinet has agreed to spend $49 million to have steel pan orchestras in over 500 schools throughout the country.

According to Education Minister Hazel Manning, 584 schools have not yet received the national instrument and this money will be used to finance this.

She said commencing January 2006 a total of 60 orchestras will be placed in schools.

Manning explained that the pan in schools programme started in 2002 and over the past three years it has been a success.

 

[more]
Web Posted -  Thursday December 15,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special


Steelband in Dortmund


New York - Germany is interested in providing accommodation for pan musicians planning to attend the World Cup Soccer match between Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden on June 10, 2006.  Deadline for inquiries January 15, 2006.

For more information [more]
 
Web Posted -  Thursday December 15,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special


Students get bang out of class; Unique drums a big hit
at South Dover

By Elizabeth Redden, Delaware State News


Delaware - Tropical rhythms will warm today’s winter concert at South Dover Elementary School, as fourth-graders will tap steel drums to the beats of “La Bamba” and “Christmas Acom,” a Jamaican carol.

The school has steel drums on loan for six weeks this winter, giving students the chance to bang away today in their respective bands.

Music teacher Evelyn Jocson received training in steel drums this summer and is now instructing students on the instruments as part of her study.
 

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Web Posted -  Tuesday December 13,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Oasis Youth
Steel Pan Ensemble
 in conjunction with
Pan United Youth Movement
 ''Annual Holiday Celebration"

Newark, New Jersey - Oasis Youth Steel Pan Ensemble, part of the Oasis Folk Arts Academy program directed by Bevan Black, proudly held it's first annual holiday celebration this past Sunday.  Parents, family members and well-wishers crowded into the meeting room/auditorium of the spacious facility that was previously an area hospital which closed its doors eight years ago.  It was subsequently acquired by Drs. Clyde Pemberton and Trevor Atherley and put to use as the New United Center, a meeting place for social and cultural activities for area residents, as they give back to the community. 

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Web Posted -  Tuesday December 13,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

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Web Posted -  Tuesday December 13,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Silver Stars have 'Star' Quality
and a Winning Formula

Trinidad - Silver Stars not only have had the right idea for a number of years, but they have kept on using the same winning formula on an annual basis around the festive season in Trinidad and Tobago.  This year their Parang and Steel series is in its fifteenth year, and remains immensely popular with the upper middle class in Trinbagonian society.  December 17 will be the final in the six Saturday nights of Parang and Steel.

The night of December 3rd was yet another one in the steel orchestra's super successful musical series.  Each weekend, the Silver Stars stage side of pan musicians performs two sets, along with their invited guest artistes. 

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

CASYM
 ''Classical Caribbean Christmas"

New  York - The night belonged to the Caribbean American Sports and Cultural Youth Movement (CASYM) Steel Orchestra, the parents, the players and the steelpan instrument. CASYM held its annual "Classical Caribbean Christmas" at the world famous Brooklyn Museum. The capacity crowd was treated to a very special show. For two hours the audience witnessed an exceptional and entertaining show that showcased the talent, and teaching ability of the members of CASYM.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 Virgin Islands Daily News
  
 

Pan Fest leaves audience pleased as punch
By PATRICK JOY

Daily News Photos by CRISTIAN SIMESCU The St. Patrick's Youth Steel Orchestra treats the crowd to musical pearls at the 10th annual Pan Fest at Island Center on Saturday night.
 

ST. CROIX - With a crowd of more than 2,000 people packing a standing-room-only Island Center on Saturday, 14 student steel pan bands brought local and traditional holiday songs to life in the 10th annual Pan Fest.

"I'm ecstatic, I just feel so proud tonight. There's just so many people, and I'm so thankful for the support," organizer Eslie Williams said. "It's been great all these years, but tonight is exceptional."

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

BAS 7th ANNUAL AWARDS

United Kingdom - The British Association of Steelbands 7th Annual Awards was hosted at the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury on the 3rd December 2005. This event was established in 1999 to recognize and celebrate the contributions of individuals and groups within the steelpan community. Since its inception, the event has grown in stature and has established itself in the UK Community’s calendar.

Guests included her Excellency, Glenda Morean-Phillip – High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, London Notting Hill Carnival Limited Directors – Chris Boothman and Debi Gardner, Dr Andrew Ramroop and Mr Gerald Forsyth who held office in the GLC as Instrumental Organizer and by 1990 was responsible for pan being part of their curriculum in over 160 schools across London.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

NY Panyards 2005

In Review

By Sherwin Thwaites

When asked to review   Panyards  2005,  at first I was very  apprehensive.   As a musician, (particularly  an  arranger)  we tend to become  attached  and very  protective  of our piece  of work.  Therefore, it becomes  hard to accept  criticisms  from outsiders  who don’t know the work from it’s inception..

Now let’s review.   The great thing about  Panyards  is that the bands  are playing  at nice slow to medium tempos.  Therefore, it makes  it easier  to hear  each  section  with clarity.  I’m not sure if the recording was mixed in Pro Tools or some other high-end recording medium, but  audibly it is pristine.  

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Thanks For The Music 
- Clive Bradley
 R. Pope
-Through the eyes of those who knew him-

I know it been said already
For those of us who live and breathe this music
What else is there to say!
It’s not like I didn’t thank you personally.
Remember that night, Trini to the bone was sizzling.
Yeah! That night I thanked you for all the music.
You have given us so much
Like a dream that haunts, I still hear Party tonight
Just like Desperadoes played it at festival,
Cause I was there that night, suited up in rival colors.
Knowing after hearing them that we were under-prepared.
Yes man, begrudgingly I thanked you for the Music.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Bradley's Greatness
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
-Through the eyes of those who knew him-

It is taken for granted these days that all the faults of everyone are held under a microscope for everyone to examine.  And so it was that while on the plane returning from the burial of Clive Bradley, the sadness still fresh in my heart like a new coat of paint, I learned there were some who chose to write about the alleged circumstances of Mr. Bradley’s death.  It can hardly have been unexpected, but I confess to having been a little shocked that without the benefit of an autopsy report, and with a most irrelevant photograph of the man’s grieving children such things could be printed under the guise of “news”.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 12,  2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

The Jammer For Bradley

by - Dawad Philip-

Renegades have lit their candles
in the night for Nosey in Brooklyn,
and on the hill by Desperadoes
for Bradley, who made his music 

canticles against the guns of Laventille.
Overlooking Calvary, he caressed his muse
and ventured where only the brave dare
and whisperers bubble a black spoon..

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Web Posted -  Monday December  5, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Master Arranger, Musician, Composer, Producer
Clive Bradley
 The Man, The Music and The Legend
-Through the eyes of those who knew him-

Pelham Goddard,  Ray Holman, Jit Samaroo, Ella Andall, Dave "Peck" Edwards, Pat Bishop, Dr. Dawn Batson, Garvin Blake, Collins Jackman, Arddin Herbert, Andy Narel and others share their thoughts and memories on master arranger Clive Bradley.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 5, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Clive Bradley's
Final Passage and Journey
but His Music Played On...

Trinidad - On Friday December 2, just later over an hour before the scheduled 10:00 AM celebration of his life, Clive Bradley lay in state at the Desperadoes pan theater in Laventille, before he left 'The Hill' for the last time.  The backdrop of the blue sea in the distance, made brilliant by the morning sun, framed the scene for this equally brilliant individual, as villagers and others came to pay their final respects.

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Web Posted -  Monday December 5, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Clive Bradley 
Memories

by - Dr. Dawn K. Batson

Florida - Since news of Clive Bradley’s death Sparrow’s calypso “Memories” has been looping continuously through my brain. In the pan world we often pay great homage to competition and competition winners sometimes neglecting and underrating truly beautiful music because it was not in the winner’s row. Bradley however, inside and outside of competition, was able to capture the beauty of the instruments of the steel orchestra and the essence of its players.

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Web Posted -  Monday December  5, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Clive Bradley 
The Man and his Music

by - Robbie Joseph

United Kingdom - The following is a lasting memory I have of the greatness of Clyde and his captivating music. This episode of my life is often relived when his music is played.

In 1998, Clive Bradley musically directed Nutones Steel Orchestra to capture the coveted title of National Panorama Champs with his captivating arrangement of David Rudder’s ‘High Mas’. In 1999, he returned ‘up de hill’ to his old haunt, Desperadoes. Initially there were mixed feelings of using Bradley’s musical talents instead of Robbie Greenidge’s but he soon changed that with his musicality.

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MASTERPIECE

- Clive Bradley the Master at Work -

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Web Posted -  Saturday, October 1, 2005
When Steel Talks -  Special

In every arena there are performances that are the beginning of something very special.  Moreover, they tell a story about pan people's spirit, creativity and their greatness.  And when captured, they are simply magic, and treasures for the ages....
 
Vintage steelpan performances are ageless, timeless, educational, and entertaining.  It is in this regard that When Steel Talks is pleased to announce the addition of the House of Classic Steel which will join the already extremely popular Stage 1 and Stage 2 steelband music performance oriented sites...
 
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Web Posted -  Sunday November 27, 2005
When Steel Talks - Special - Breaking News


The Master has passed

  1936 -2005

New York - Master steelband music arranger Clive Bradley passed away today in Trinidad.  The revered musician recently celebrated his 69th birthday.  He was a father, a scholar, a gentleman, a teacher and respected giant among his peers.  His passion for life and his music will not be duplicated.  We at When Steel Talks are proud to have called Mr. Bradley, friend, mentor and champion.

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Web Posted -  Monday December  5, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Clive Bradley 
A Musical Wizardry

by - Collins Jackman - When Steel Talks - Special


New York - Most people would argue–and there is much certitude to it–that Clive Bradley was a master steelband arranger, a top class musician, and an illuminating teacher. But while he was all of these, he was a person of much complexity and this aspect of Clive Bradley’s personality was brilliantly articulated in his music. What made his musical sensibilities interesting and complex was his ability to take very simple melodies or motifs and superimpose on them a symphonic opus that would always leave many standing in awe.

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Web Posted -  Monday December  5, 2005
 When Steel Talks - Special

Did You Ever Know Clive Bradley?

by - T. John

New York - Did you ever know Clive Bradley? Did you ever meet Clive Bradley?