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“The Bradley
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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.
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clarity with sonic realism, of a large steel
orchestra fielding between one hundred and one
hundred twenty musicians - unlike any other
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Monday July 30, 2018
The New Today
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FIU Investigating
Financial Irregularities in Local Steelband |
Grenada, W.I.
- A leading and influential figure in the
steelband movement is now formally under
investigation by the Financial Intelligence Unit
(FIU) for alleged financial irregularities.
THE NEW TODAY understands from reliable sources
that the person was interviewed on Friday by the
FIU based on a formal complaint lodged against
him by a steel orchaestra that he had headed for
several years.
....Another senior member of the band involved
confirmed to this newspaper that a file has been
handed over to the FIU and the individual was
called in to be questioned on certain financial
dealings involving the band’s money.
The file was handed over after several behind
the scene manoeuvres to reach a settlement on
alleged misappropriation of the band’s funds.
....THE NEW TODAY also
understands that both the FIU and Royal Grenada
Police Force (RGPF) might also be called in by
government to investigate the use of funds given
last year by the Spicemas Corporation (SMC) to
build a stage for the holding of the 2017
panorama competition.
Government was forced to set
up a two-man Commission of Inquiry after
the show was called off at the last minute as
the stage was not built.
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Web Posted -
Monday July 30, 2018
Oswego.edu
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Study-abroad course dives
into engineering unique musical instrument
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Oswego, New
York, USA
- Four students are currently in Trinidad and
Tobago designing prototypes for the Caribbean
country's national musical instrument in the new
course "Engineering the Steelpan," taught by
electrical and computer engineering faculty
member Marianne Hromalik.
Hromalik, who hails from Trinidad and Tobago,
earned a SUNY Chancellor’s Grant for Innovative
Study-Abroad Programs for 2017-18 to support
creation of the course and to defray costs of
the four students traveling. The instrument,
which resembles a steel drum, has “a very
complex shell” that involves layering to create
a distinct sound, Hromalik explained. “There is
a lot of folk knowledge about it but not a lot
of scientific knowledge.”
The students will work with Hromalik to create a
model, a blueprint for building a better
steelpan. The initial prototype and testing will
be part of a multi-year project, with future
classes returning to refine the process.
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Web Posted -
Saturday July 28, 2018
When Steel Talks
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Antigua & Barbuda National Steelband Panorama
2018 -
Order of Appearance |
St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
Nine steel orchestras,
including defending champs Hells Gate Steel
Orchestra, take the stage one week from now in the
country’s annual
steelband Panorama competition.
The order
of appearance for the August 4 competition has
been pulled. The defending champs who
performed last in the 2017 competition, are
first up this time around.
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Web Posted -
Thursday July 26, 2018
New Hampshire Public Radio
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Summer Music Series:
Mango Groove Band Leader Crafts Steel Drums in
Conway |
New
Hampshire, USA -
“This is the kind of hammers I use to sync the
drums, right. So these hook up to an air
compressor. I just had the
boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom, you know,
hit it all the way down.”
Rollnick have been playing
the instrument since he heard a steel band play
at a festival in the 80s. But a steel drum that
sounds just right can be hard to find in the
U.S. So he found a book on how to build them.
How to take 55 gallon barrels and turn them into
instruments.
“I was building these drums and they weren't
sounding like I wanted them to sound, so my wife
Janet said, ‘Well, we should go to Trinidad,
where they came from--they originated there--and
check them out.’”
....The members of the Mango
Groove are all white. Some Trinidadian panists
see the instrument spread around the globe as an
extension of colonialism, a form of cultural
appropriation when a dominant culture adopts
parts of a minority culture.
Rollnick says he’s thought
about that....
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Web Posted -
Thursday July 26, 2018
When Steel Talks
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Antigua & Barbuda National Panorama Steelband Music Competition The Anatomy of Panorama 2018 - Quick
Chart
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St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
In one week there will be a
rematch of nine steel orchestras in the
steelband musical meet-up, known as the annual
Antigua & Barbuda National Panorama. On Saturday
August 4, 2018 in St. John’s, the title of
Panorama champions will be up for grabs once
more with East Vibes, Ebonites, Gemonites,
Halcyon, Harmonites International, Original,
Panache and West Side Symphony steel orchestras
all determined to wrest it from Hells Gate who
are the reigning champions. They are musically
led by champion arranger Khan Cordice.
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Web Posted -
Thursday July 26, 2018
When Steel Talks
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Pan Trinbago Calls
Extraordinary General Meeting |
Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. -
Pan Trinbago Inc. will be convening an
Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Thursday
23rd August 2018 at the Communication Workers
Union Hall, 146 Henry Street, Port of Spain, at
5:00 p.m.
Members have been given the
mandatory twenty-eight (28) days prior notice of
the above meeting called by the President.
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Web Posted -
Sunday July 22, 2018
News12.com -
Long Island
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‘Steel Impressions’
family band spotlights Caribbean culture
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Long Island, New
York, USA
- Long Island’s own
Steel Impressions Steel Band is putting a
spotlight on Caribbean culture through music.
The band says they are the only family
steel band on Long Island.
O.V. Solomon came to the U.S. from Guyana and
taught each of his children to play at a young
age.
"It's very important to continue,” said Solomon.
“I love the fact that they have new ideas and
modern moves to add to help to keep this
instrument alive."
The group plays drums made by O.V.'s brother and
they are managed by wife and mother Angela Agard,
who hails from St. Lucia.
"This is a family that's doing their best to
hold everything together and the way that we do
that is through the music through the culture,"
says Agard.
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Web Posted -
Friday July 20, 2018
Herald Live
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Good vibes, food and fun
in store for KFC Herald fair
Good music and
delicious food is on the menu at the KFC Herald
Country Fair
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Port Elizabeth,
South Africa
- Good music and delicious food is on the
menu at the KFC Herald Country Fair at
Holmeleigh Farmyard on Saturday August 25.
The Westering High School steel band, which
consists of 12 members from grades 10 to 12,
will perform at 2 p.m.
The band’s repertoire
consists of old and new music, including
Pretty Woman, Bad, Lady Soul and Human, to name but a
few.
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Web Posted -
Thursday July 19, 2018
Barbados Today
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Steelpan vibes
contagious |
Barbados, W.I.
- Argentinian reggae artiste Fidel Nadal
has fallen in love with the sweet sounds of the
steel pan after his first visit to Barbados.
Nadal informed Bajan Vibes that he is
considering including the piercing sound of the
steel pan in his future works after being
exposed to the instrument while participating in
last weekend’s pan-filled events, Pan Fusion
and Pan Pun De Sand.
“I am looking forward to making a video and a
song with the steel pan band. I want to do it
because I feel the vibes,” Nadal revealed.
“I have never sung with a steel pan band. I have
always worked with regular instruments, bass,
guitar, and keyboard but …for me, it is amazing
that the steel pan makes the sounds of all the
instruments, all the cords,” he added.
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Web Posted -
Thursday July 19, 2018
12WBOY
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Mannette Festival of
Steel Celebrates the steel drum in Morgantown
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West Virginia, USA
- It's a tropical beat that is
recognized all over the world.
The Mannette Festival of Steel being held in
Morgantown is exposing the steel pan
community to new works of steelband music and
providing an opportunity for composers to
showcase their works.
"From all different parts of the U.S., we come
to collaborate with steel pan arrangers,
celebrity arrangers, form all over the world,"
said
Duvone Stewart, Faculty Teacher.
Various performances have been held throughout
the week, featuring pan artists from all over
the country.
"It's such an infectious instrument....”
....Ellie
Mannette, known as the "The father of the
modern steel pan instrument" resides in
Morgantown. He has been a big part of the
evolution of the steel drum.
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see video
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Web Posted -
Tuesday July 17, 2018
PalmCoastObserver.com
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Belle Terre Elementary
teacher fundraises to expand student steel drum
band, sharing her passion for the culture of
Trinidad
BTES teacher Ashley Allen needs to raise over
$600 to buy two more tenor steel drums for her
students
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Florida, USA
- Belle Terre Elementary School (BTES) is
hoping to keep creating the sound of the islands
in the land of the Bobcats — the island of
Trinidad, to be exact.
BTES sixth-grade teacher Ashley Allen and her
husband, Matanzas High School fine arts teacher
Jared Allen, have a passion for steel drums, and
they’re sharing that passion with their
students.
The pair have visited Trinidad, where steel
drums originated, about five or six times since
March 2014, the most recent being February 2017.
....She is working to secure
more than $600 to meet their about $1,000 goal
on DonorsChoose.org to be able to purchase two
new tenor steel drums for the BTES Bobcat Steel,
a steel drum after-school club started at Belle
Terre this past spring.
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Web Posted -
Thursday July 12, 2018
Relix
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Song Premiere: Jonathan
Scales Fourchestra feat. Béla Fleck “Focus Poem”
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North Carolina, USA
- Composer and steel pan player
Jonathan
Scales will release a new album with his
Fourchestra outfit, PILLAR, on September 14, and
today we premiere one of the record's tracks,
"Focus Poem," which features special guest Béla
Fleck on banjo and puts the two bandleaders on
display, as they intertwine the unique sounds of
their respective instruments in complex and
intricate lines.
"Personally, this piece is an
instrumental soundtrack to pushing forward one
step at a time, as insurmountable as the path
may seem," Scales tells Relix.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday July 10, 2018
When Steel Talks
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New York’s 2018 Steelband
Summer Sizzles At NY Pan Stars Band Launch
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New York, USA
- In a sky devoid of stars, a lone satellite
pulsing brightly moved in over Pantonic’s East
Flatbush pan yard, as if to let all know it was
reserving an early seat and would be watching
everything that transpired on this night, as
this was one of the best community live music
tickets in town. Shortly thereafter, a bright
New York full moon moved into the frame and said
“I’m here for the night - let the show being.”
The temperature was over 90 degrees on the
ground. And if there was a roof over the
performing steelbands it would have been on fire
- as a direct result when each band kept raising
the temperature with their respective
performances.
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Web Posted -
Monday July 9, 2018
When Steel Talks
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BSO’s Inaugural ‘Pan Is
Sweet’ - in Pictures
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New York, USA
- Seven steel orchestras took to the stage on the night
of June 23, 2018 and delivered memorable
performances, each between five and six minutes.
New York Pan Stars, CASYM, Verona, Blue Diamonds
USA, Steel Sensation, Pan Evolution and Genesis
Pan Groove were part of this excellent steelband
showcase. The event was organized and produced
by BSO (Brooklyn Steel Orchestra).
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2018 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband
Panorama Info - Complete
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Trinidad
& Tobago, W.I. - PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks
is Panorama Central! Complete information
on the 2018 season of the Trinidad and Tobago National
Panorama, and competitions: Schedules, Orders
of Appearance for preliminary, semi-final and final
phases for large, medium and small conventional
steel orchestras, and single pan bands; arrangers’
bios, bios of steel orchestras; full results, panyard
addresses, history of previous Panoramas, and much
more!
see complete information index
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Web Posted -
September, 2017
When Steel Talks
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The Ugly, The Uglier and
The Ugliest - New York Panorama 2017
tag words for 2017
NY Panorama: Embarrassing, Shameful, Thoughtless,
Bandits
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New
York, USA - Well if you
haven’t heard already, New York’s 2017 Panorama
Steel Orchestra competition was an epic failure
for most. Unless you were the show’s promoters -
who got away as bandits in the night - except it
was a broad daylight-mugging with everyone watching.
Calling the promoters “bandits” is really a description
‘upgrade’ as they have been known as the original
Evil Empire to the Brooklyn Steelband community
for decades.
So in this
regard, let’s cut the crap! And the fake news from
those who are spreading alternative facts, about
how great New York 2017 Panorama was. In reality
it was jacked up.
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Web Posted
When Steel Talks
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Early Trinidad and Tobago
Steelbands Names Associated with Hollywood Movies |
Global -
Within the historical context,
a look at the impact of American movies on the naming
of early steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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