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“The Bradley Years”
The
Bradley Years represent the definitive
collection of steelband music arrangements
and performances for a large steel
orchestra. This collection showcases seven
classic arrangements from the master
arranger Clive Bradley. Bradley is
considered to be the best steelband music
arranger ever by many, including his peers.
In addition, the arrangements are performed
by one of the finest steelbands in the
world, New York’s Pantonic Steel Orchestra.
Clive Bradley had a very special
relationship with Pantonic. This orchestra
clinched the title of panorama champions
five times in seven years - performing
Bradley’s musical works. The performances
were captured by Basement Recordings days
before, and in one instance, mere moments
before they took the stage for the
prestigious annual steelband music panorama
competition.
The
recordings capture, reproduce and present an
unrivalled clarity with sonic realism, of a
large steel orchestra fielding between one
hundred and one hundred twenty musicians -
unlike any other steelband music recordings
in its class.
This body of musical work is a sterling
addition for all fans, educators, players,
historians and fine music collectors.
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Tuesday June 30, 2009 by
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International Panorama 2009 -
Montréal Style
Motreal,
Quebec, Canada
- Panorama in Montreal is like that of no other
place in the world. As the main event of the two-day
Montreal International Steelpan Festival, now in its
ninth year, the competition brings a unique brand and
style to a city already with an envious reputation for
hosting some of the greatest music and arts festivals in
the world. Indeed, the operative word here is
“international” as the show’s producers have expanded
the traditional panorama concept of local partaking to
an international perspective and participation. click for
more
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Thursday June 25, 2009 by When Steel Talks
Special: When Steel Talks
Pan Radio
Tribute to
Michael Jackson
The Superstar’s Superstar
Global
Michael
Jackson was one of the finest artists of this age.
As a legit triple threat and more - he could, dance, sing
, compose, produce and
act. To call him a superstar would be an
understatement and an insult to his impact on the music
of the world. He was the superstar's superstar. MJ was the best.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson... thanks for
the wonderful music!
Michael Jackson's music was loved, respected
and interpreted by the
steelpan music community. His music will continue
to inspire musicians all over the world.
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Thursday June 25, 2009 by
When Steel Talks
‘Pic of the Day’
Another Side of the late musician and master
arranger Clive Bradley
Global
- Among the many attributes of the late great master
arranger Clive Bradley - was his ability to relate and
inspire all people regardless of background and age.
Clive Bradley had a special bond with young people. In
this photo, Mr. Bradley helps a youngster experience the
pan in the panyard. click for
pic
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Wednesday June 24, 2009 by
When Steel Talks
They Played
[Pan], They Sang
and They Graduated
Princes
Town Methodist School’s
Class of 2009
Trinidad, W.I.
- Thursday June 18, 2009 will long be remembered in
the lives of seventeen of the twenty students of the
graduating Standard Five Class of the Princes Town
Methodist School in Southern Trinidad, WI. The occasion
was the Graduation Service and Award Giving Ceremony.
The theme was 'Keep The Dream Alive.' And sixteen
members of the graduating class kept Pan alive, as they
delivered a performance that featured pan and song for their parents, teachers
and all in attendance. click for
more
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Wednesday June 24, 2009 Agassiz-Harrison Observer
CaneFire brings steelpan
to fest
Toronto,
Canada
- Harrison’s Festival of the Arts brings different
performing faces in every year. This year, their
31st, is no exception. Jeremy Ledbetter, bandleader
of the highly anticipated group CaneFire, is excited
about their first appearance in Harrison, first trip
to B.C., and another opportunity to share their
unique island sound.
“The music that CaneFire plays is all about travel,
and putting music from different places together, so
the opportunity to share our music with a new
audience in a new city is always very exciting for
us,” he says.
....“A big part of what CaneFire is all about is
showing people what the steelpan is capable of, by
showcasing the instrument in an unconventional
context,” says Ledbetter. Though many people will
recognize the steelpan’s sound – Ledbetter calls it
“the iconic instrument of the Caribbean” – they have
usually only heard it in a limited context. He
explains the kind of thing he means – “[steelpan] on
a beach playing “Yellow Bird” under a palm tree.”
While, not knowing better, we might be satisfied
with the feeling the steelpan usually evokes – a
tropical vacation for the mind -- it is much more. click for more
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Tuesday June 23, 2009 The Barbados Advocate
Just Say it:
When will we start to value other artforms?
Barbados, W.I.
- THE National Cultural Foundation (NCF) met earlier
this year with steelbands of Barbados and discussed the
rules of the impending steelband competition to be held
during the Crop Over Festival 2009. Subsequent to this
meeting they corresponded with the leaders of the bands
and informed them of the details of the competition –
prizes, date, time, venue, etc.
Players obviously began to prepare by paying an
arranger and having regular rehearsal. It was therefore
a surprise when we heard by a chance conversation that
the event has been cancelled. The NCF has the right to
cancel an event but the investment of time and money
that would have gone into preparing for this competition
was not taken into consideration.
his decision however is not surprising. Although
Cultural Officer for music, Ronnie Davis, has been
really trying to create some interest in steelpan in
Barbados, he does not seem to have got the official
support that was needed for any serious development of
this artform in Barbados. click for
more
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Monday June 22, 2009 Trinidad
Guardian
WeBeat puts pan back in
limelight
Trinidad,
W.I.
- The pride of the West, the annual WeBeat St James
Live Festival, closes with a Carnival-like street
parade, featuring ole-time costumed masqueraders,
and most of the top steelbands in the land. The
organisers are to be commended for turning this
segment of the festival around, from a night of
massive noise and total confusion, to a smooth
flowing night of sweet steelpan music.
Initially the action was similar to the days when
steelbands literally clashed, whilst parading on a
two-way street, coupled with the deafening sounds of
the sidewalk DJs. That was changed by having the
parade move in a one-way easterly direction,
beginning from Luckput and George Cabral streets,
and ending at Long Circular Road and Benares Street.
In addition, for the past two years, there has been
absolutely no DJ music along the route. click for
more
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Friday June 19, 2009 Orléans Star
Orléans trio shares Caribbean culture with Ottawa
through Carivibe
Ottawa,
Canada
- Denis Mayers works as a financial planner, David
Mason is in sales, and his cousin Trevor Mason
(better known as DJ Mace) works for Hot 89.9 radio.
But they all live close to each other in the Avalon
area and they all share Caribbean roots.
“It’s a pretty happy marriage so far,” laughs David.
“It works well because we bring all our strengths
together.”
David says the organization and promotion of
Carivibe “is really like a separate 9 to 5 job all
on its own.” Booking the acts for the Saturday, June
20 event at Rideau Carleton Raceway takes up plenty
of time, along with everything related to venue
setup and promoting the celebration. click for
more
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Friday June 19, 2009 by When Steel Talks
Pan Elders Celebrates
its Tenth Anniversary
Trinidad
- Pan Elders was conceptualized in 1999 during an
evening lime at Gem’s Recreation Club –now the
popular Red Step Bar- on Carib Street, San Fernando.
Carib Street –dubbed the Gaza Strip by a well known
southern pan personality- has arguably, the most
steelband per sq. kilometer anywhere on the planet.
Amongst the band’s godfathers, emptying 80% proof
receptacles, that fateful day were ex southern based
band members such as Jones Andrews, Godfrey Camps,
Anthony Farrell, Cyril Smith, Christopher Branker,
Mervyn Cruickshank, Ronnie Williams and Gunns
amongst others. click for
more
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Tuesday June 16, 2009 Hartlepool Mail
Band off to Brum for national final
United Kingdom
-
Teenage musicians are banging the drums in celebration at
their steel band getting the through to the final of a national competition.
The year 10 pupils from Shotton Hall School, in Peterlee, have won a place at
the finals of the Festival for Musical Youth.
The group of 14 and 15-year-olds have proven to be such a hit that they have
also been booked to play the steel pans at a Caribbean-themed wedding and have
had calls about performing at other local events. click for
more
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Monday June 15, 2009 by When Steel Talks
Steelpan
Musicians Honor the Ancestors of the Middle
Passage at Tribute in Coney Island
New
York
- Utopia Pan Soul - The Next
Generation celebrated the ancestors through their
performance with the musical instrument that more so than
any other, represents the true mettle of the African people:
their genius, survival, defiance and promise. The steelpan
instrument is a gift to the world by the descendants of the
millions of Africans who were lost in the Middle Passage as
part of that “coming to America” experience.
Utopia Pan Soul’s performance unfolded amid a surreal
setting as huge tankers carrying miscellaneous cargo could
be seen in the distance coming in from the Atlantic Ocean,
tracking through an eerily similar route at that point, as
used by slave ships not so long ago - carrying as human
cargo in their hulls - the very ancestors of all the
performers at Saturday’s tribute to the Ancestors. It is not
commonly known that Coney Island was one of the major
drop-off points (disembarkment) for many of the African
slaves in this hemisphere. click for
more
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Monday June 15, 2009 by When Steel Talks
An
Embarrassment of Riches Classic Work by
Phase II will Haunt me to my Grave
Trinidad
- It was absolutely the best Panorama
performance I’ve ever heard. It was music in B sharpe. Last
Sunday, I found that new note just inside Pan Trinbago’s
“village,” the organisation’s brand old drag, the one that
was introduced to us at the western front of the Savannah
Party in a getting-to-know-you moment. Here, under
metal-gray skies, in the vicinity of 2.30 p.m., Boogsie
Sharpe and his Phase II Pan Groovers cut loose a symphonic
arrangement of Music in we Blood for a grap of villagers
that circled the band’s cosquelle drums like a halo. So, it
was divine, then? Hello? Let me explatiate. click for
more
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Monday June 15, 2009 Observer News
First Pan Scholarship Announced
Antigua
- The government of Antigua & Barbuda
has expanded its scholarship offerings with the
inclusion of steel pan studies.
In delivering his address at the media launch for
the 2009 Carnival celebrations, Culture Minister
Eleston Adams announced that the Department of
Culture’s Steel Pan Division in collaboration with
the Prime Minister’s Silver Jubilee Scholarship
Programme secured a scholarship for panist Khan
Cordice.
Cordice will pursue a Bachelor of Arts Degree in
Musical Arts with a concentration on steel pan, at
the University of the West Indies St Augustine
Campus in Trinidad and Tobago, commencing in
September. click for
more
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Sunday June 14, 2009 Trinidad Express
‘Pantastic
Music’
Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad - Cary Codrington and his
family gave patrons at We Beat 2009 Pan Explosion an "out of
this world" performance at the St James Amphitheatre on
Thursday night.
The Codrington Pan Family played Latin, tassa, jazz,
African, blues, zouk, calypso, and even threw in some vocals
(R&B) for good measure.
Their performance was 40 minutes of pure pleasure, with
music on pan and xylophone, pan and drums, pan and saxophone
and pan and guitar.
Young pan prodigy Keisha Codrington never ceases to amaze;
she mesmerised the audience with her trumpet playing.
The Pan Family's version of "Just the Two of Us", using the
pan and xylophone, was very interesting; so to was Ella
Andall's "Festival Song" accompanied by drums.
click for
more
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Friday June 12, 2009 Trinidad Newsday
Grand finale
of WeBeat 2009
Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad - The
2009 edition WeBeat Festival comes to a close tomorrow with
a steelband parade though the streets of St James. However,
even before that, calypso will rule during We Vintage Kaiso
at the St. James Amphitheatre from 8 pm tonight.
Some of the country’s best exponents of the artform will
take centre stage at tonight’s show.
....Tomorrow night, WeBeat St. James Live culminates in a
street parade along the Western Main Road, from Mathura
Street to Long Circular Road. The popular strip will take on
a carnival-style atmosphere with steelbands, engine rooms
and traditional mas characters on parade. Providing pan
music for the street parade will be the St James North
Stars, TTEC Power Stars, St James Tripolians, reigning
National Panorama champs Silver Stars, Caribbean Airlines
Invaders, Phase 11 Pan Groove, Angostura Woodbrook Playboyz,
Brimblers, HCL Valley Harps, Caribbean Vibes Engine Room,
Old Tech, La Creole Pan Groove and Humming Bird Pan Groove. click for
more
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Thursday June 11, 2009 Washington Post
Celebrating
Heritage, History of the Islands
Caribbean American
Culture
Is Honored
Washington
DC
- The Kennedy Center's Millennium
stage rollicked with the rhythms of the Caribbean last week
in a performance that kicked off Caribbean American Heritage
Month.
The pulsating sounds of the Positive Vibrations Youth Steel
Orchestra -- with its rendition of Alicia Keyes's "No One,"
arranged by artistic director Malika Coletta -- brought the
house down and the audience to their feet. In a one-hour
concert, the orchestra played its interpretations of jazz,
gospel and calypso to a capacity crowd click for
more
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Wednesday June 10, 2009 by When Steel Talks
Pan ‘Down
Under’
Australia’s “Banana Joe” story points to
Trinidad & Tobago as Home of Pan
Australia
- ‘What part of Jamaica is
Trinidad?’ This was the question which was repeatedly
being asked wherever and whenever Alvin Rostant played his
steelpan in Australia.
This drove him to set the record straight. In so doing he
established his own “Australian Academy of Steel Drums”
wherein he scripted a story for Primary Schools entitled
“Banana Joe,” and another for High Schools called “Calypso
Drums.” He was subsequently contracted by the Queensland
Arts Council in-schools touring programme which saw him
taking the programme on the road to close to one thousand
schools. Rostant, a former San Fernando Technical Institute
soccer standout in Trinidad in the late 1960s and early
‘70s, was being interviewed ‘on air’ from Australia by
Hollis Clifton - Pan Diaspora - Visionary and Kenny Phillips,
CEO of WACK Radio 90.1FM in San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago. click for
more
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Wednesday June 10, 2009
When Steel Talks
DC Caribbean
Carnival, Inc. announces
its Annual Pan Jam and Dimanche Gras
Maryland,
USA - As part of DC CARNIVAL, DC
Caribbean Carnival, Inc. [DCCC] invites one and all to join
them in preserving the art form proudly referred to as PAN
as they celebrate DC Carnival’s 7th Anniversary of Pan Jam
at the Cross Roads Entertainment Complex parking lot in
Bladensburg, Maryland on Saturday June 20, 2009 from 2:00 pm
until 9:00 pm. The event is co-sponsored by Caribbean
Cargo-DC.
This year’s Pan Jam will feature Pan Masters Steel Orchestra
from North Brentwood, Positive Vibrations Youth Steel
Orchestra from Hyattsville, DC Pan Jammers, Steel Orchestra
from Washington, DC and more. click for
more
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Wednesday June 10, 2009
When Steel Talks
Invaders wins
BIG for TnT
at Bajan Pan Competition
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. - Trinidad & Tobago’s
Caribbean Airlines Invaders Steel Orchestra proudly
represented its country by winning the May 31, 2009
inaugural installment of the “Pan in de Oval” competition
held at the prestigious Kensington Oval in Barbados. The
band won with a score of 1276 points, 126 points ahead of
second-placed Digicel Pan Times from St. Lucia.
The structure of the competition was that of three rounds
where orchestras from each of the four competing countries
(Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, St. Lucia, and Trinidad &
Tobago) had to perform a different song; a classical piece,
a calypso and a non-calypso/non-classical tune of choice -
for no more than eight minutes each. The bands were also
limited to having no more than thirty playing members at any
given time. click for
more
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Wednesday June 10, 2009
Breaking News
National
Steel Symphony Orchestra takes its Unique
Sound to Guyana
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. - Pan enthusiasts were
given a special treat when the National Steel Symphony
Orchestra (NSSO) took its unique sound to Guyana to
represent Trinidad and Tobago at last year’s CARIFESTA X.
And so far this year, the NSSO recently hosted three
concerts on May 29th and 31st and June 8th in Princes Town,
Curepe and at the Hyatt Regency accordingly.
The NSSO, which began its work in December 2007 under the
administration of the Ministry of Community Development,
Culture and Gender Affairs, is made up of the “Genesis”
pans, or “G” pans. These revolutionary instruments
incorporate the use of various techniques for eliminating or
reducing annoying non-musical sympathetic vibrations that
detract from the purity of the sound. The G-pan was
developed and produced by a team of local researchers headed
by Professor Brian Copeland, Dean of the Faculty of
Engineering at the University of the West Indies in St.
Augustine. click for
more
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Monday June 8, 2009
When Steel Talks
BASFDF Pan Explosion Competition 2009
United
Kingdom - On a bright and warm
summer’s evening on Saturday May 30th the premises of
the UKCCA in Luton was filled with the sweet strains of
steelband music emitted from the seven steelbands dotted
around their grounds running their last practice
sessions before entering the spacious auditorium to
perform in front of a capacity audience.
Joel ‘Tubbs’ Hamilton –Mills, the event’s MC reminded
the audience of the concept of the event i.e. initiated
by the British Association of Steelbands to encourage
young people to compose, arrange and play musical pieces
on the steelpan and how it has progressed from its
humble beginnings in the Tabernacle, Powis Square,
London from 1999 to date. click for
more
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Monday June 8, 2009
When Steel Talks
CSI plays
at the England-West Indies
Cricket Test Match at the Oval
United Kingdom - Caribbean Steel
International was originally formed in 2004 with three
members. After obtaining invaluable experience from working
with some of the top steel bands in the UK, Trinidad and
Japan, they decided it would be a great idea to form a small
group to do gigs owing to the demand for 3 or 4 piece steel
bands. After ensuring that their small steel band was well
established on the gigging circuit, CSI founding members
decided to start a community group that would involve their
local communities in the steel pan art form. click for
more
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Monday June 8, 2009
When Steel Talks
Crawl Remembered: One of the finest Bassists Ever
Global -
Exactly one year ago the steelpan music community lost one its finest musicians.
Frank “Crawl” Findley of Desperadoes in Trinidad and D'Radoes in New York was
simply poetry in motion. When Steel Talks remembers and salutes Crawl - the
great bassman now in heaven's stage-side.
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Thursday June 4, 2009
When Steel Talks
Crossfire
Brings In The Spirit At Premier Baptist
Church
New
York
-As daylight dimmed, on
Saturday May 30, the half-moon showered a bright silver
glow over the Premier Baptist Church (PBC) at the corner
of Tilden and Utica Avenues in Brooklyn, where the Rev.
Robert Watler pastors. Inside, parishioners waited
patiently past the 7 PM start time for the opening of a
fund raising concert featuring Crossfire Steel
Orchestra. Sensing the tension of the delay, Khuent
Rose, the musical director of Premier Baptist Church and
the arranger for Crossfire took to his double second.
Accompanied by drums and bass and lead guitar, Khuent
delivered a reggae-flavored version of “Glory To His
Name”. With the space warmed and opened to praises,
Assistant Pastor Gideon Akers assumed his master of
ceremonies duties declaring, “The Holy Ghost Power is in
the house tonight, what we can’t do with words , we will
do with music.” click for
more
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Thursday June 4, 2009
When Steel Talks
The Power of
Praise,
the Power of Pan
New
York
- It was the power of
Praise, right alongside the Power of Pan at the Premier
Baptist Church (PBC) in Brooklyn last Saturday. Music
director and arranger Khuent Rose on steelpans joined
with a couple other musicians to give those already
comfortably seated in plush red “pews” just a taste of
what was to come, setting the tone, even as proceedings
were almost an hour behind the 7:00 p.m. scheduled start
time.
A two-tiered stage was set with
glistening pans and other conventional instruments,
awaiting the moment to spring to life in musical
synchronicity; the pan players from Crossfire Steel
Orchestra (led by Martin “Dougie” Douglas) were also
present - anxious and ready to sound off with works
arranged by Rose. Douglas himself was crisply attired in
a white shirt with black pants, the former emblazoned
with black print in full support of the steelpan art
form. Earlier on in the evening, last-minute details
were being seen to, with the steel orchestra having a
brief sound check, and Khuent Rose in his capacity of
music director overseeing particulars, ensuring that all
was in place and would go according to plan. click for
more
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Wednesday June 3, 2009
When Steel Talks
Mother of Pan
Trinbago’s President Passes
Trinidad &
Tobago, W.I.- Pan Trinbago, Inc. commiserates with its
President, Mr. Patrick Arnold, on the passing of his
mother Marie Arnold.
Marie Arnold of Scarborough, Tobago, quietly left this
life at the age of 103 at approximately 9:00 pm on
Tuesday, June 2, 2009. click for
more
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