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Masters 2005 Pan Jamboree
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North American summer steelband season got off to a great start as
Pan Masters held its annual memorial day Pan Jamboree. The
well attended event featured six steel orchestras from the Northeast
area. They included New York's CASYM and Pantonic, DC
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Web Posted -
Saturday
May 28,
2005 When Steel Talks - Eagle Gasette |
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Drum band performs in The music was part of a performance by the Canal Winchester Steel Drum bands featuring music of Caribbean descent and contemporary pop music. The group was formed four years ago by its director Todd Phillips as an alternative approach to get kids involved in music education. |
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WSMF 2005 Preparing for Big Apple
For several hours, music lovers will be invited to witness the mastery and excellence of the Steelpan by some of the world’s top steelbands. The staging of such a prestigious festival in New York City positions it appropriately for Trinidad & Tobago’s brand image. The festival’s aim is to showcase the diversity of the instrument. full story |
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WSMF 2005 will be held at New York’s
Paramount Theater which has the capacity to hold 5600 people.
The event is expected to reach an audience spanning from the
Caribbean to the Americas to Europe, both in attendance at the
“concert” as well as television, radio
broadcast and internet.
DEADLINE LOOMS for the 2005 USA Songwriting Competition
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Monday,
May 23,
2005 When Steel Talks -Exclusive |
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PanKids Know Pan
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Dortmund, Germany
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is hard at work preparing the next generation of steelpan players.
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Steely Dan, the Mascot of the Teacher Pan series, painted by Susanne Finch |
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Web Posted -
Friday
May 20,
2005 When Steel Talks - Spotlight Special -
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"I love
this guy! Okay, where do i begin? He's playing steel drum and
singing! How many times do you see that? It is very innovative.
His improvisation is really great! I love what he is doing!
Singing with his instrument - I've never seen anyone do that.
It's a whole new twist" Through the years Boyd has been called a Steel Drum Master, an excellent singer and an exciting entertainer. A true visionary with an instrument that has only been created over the middle of the 20th century and mainly used in the Caribbean idiom. Boyd has lived for many years in New Orleans, Louisiana, a music vortex that provided him with the impetus to grow as a performer and to realize, take part in and to be initiated into some of the very foundations of American Music. |
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Web Posted -
Friday
May 20,
2005 WhenSteel Talks Exclusive |
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Historical Steelpan Paintings
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Trinidad - During the last week in
August 2005 the collection of paintings by artist Trinidadian Joseph Charles on the
history and development of the steelpan
will be on
exhibition and for sale by
 private
auction.
This collection
was exhibited during last
year's carnival (2004) at The National Museum and Art Gallery in
Trinidad and Tobago for six weeks. It had been originally scheduled for two weeks
but held over by public demand. |
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Friday
May 20,
2005 When Steel Talks - Special - |
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Trinidad - The Birdsong Steel Orchestra recently distributed certificates to the 32 successful students who passed their grade 1 Royal School of Music theory examinations. The distribution of these certificates marked the end of the first year of operation of the birdsong Pan Institute, which was established last year in pursuit of the band’s objective of ensuring functional music literacy among the next generation of pan players. |
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Friday
May 20,
2005 WhenSteel Talks Exclusive |
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Mint Condition & Pan Minnesota - Taking a break from practice to tell their story, the musicians laugh about their origins as a teen band jamming in the shadow of Prince, complete with heavy Jheri curls. "You'd have to sit there and interview us with a raincoat," says O'Dell. "That made the funk more better, man," says Williams. "Something greasy."
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Stokley
Williams and Homer O'Dell met in a steel drum class taught at
Central by Trinidad-born Cliff Alexis Sr., and the bright plink of
the pans can be heard on Mint Condition tracks such as "My Sista"
and "Look Whachu Done 2 Me." Alexis had taught Williams since the
singer was a kid, and had known O'Dell for years as well. Soon all
three were playing in the school's Steel Experience band.|
Web Posted - Friday
May 20,
2005 Trinidad Express |
Walcott play for Queen's Hall
Friday, May 20th 2005
British Gas and the Neal and Massy Group of Companies are sponsoring the premiere.
Walcott writes this musical production and collaborates again with American songwriter Galt Mac Dermot for the music.
STEEL tells the story of the birth of the steelpan and is set immediately after the second world war , in the community of Laventille where the steelpan was invented.
Walcott will direct the production and the cast will feature the workshop's experienced actors Albert Laveau and Nigel Scott, together with Leon Morenzie, a known Trinidad-born actor based in Los Angeles, USA. Musical direction is by Gene Lawrence.
STEEL will be the first literary work to document the birth and development of the steelpan.
Chicago Steelband SPOTLIGHT - When Steel Talks - Special
Paul G. Ross is a Chicago-based percussionist
specializing in steel band music and drum set performance.
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is the founder and leader of the midwest's most accomplished
professional steel band, Pan Go, director of the Harper College
Steel Bands in Palatine, Illinois, and director of Barrington
Percussion Experience. A prolific composer, Paul's collection of
original compositions for steel band and steel pan solo are
available from his publishing company
Pan Press, Inc.
and are performed around the world.Raised in Windsor, Connecticut, Paul moved to Illinois in the fall of 1983 to attend Northern Illinois University as a percussion major. It was the renowned NIU steel band that gave him his first exposure to pan music and it wasn't long before he joined the group as their drummer. While at NIU he also became principal percussionist of the NIU Wind Ensemble and NIU Philharmonic. During his junior year he won the NIU concerto competition and performed as soloist with the orchestra on marimba. Paul went on to receive a Bachelor of Music in percussion performance and a Master of Music in Steel Pan performance from NIU. |
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Wednesday
May 18,
2005 The People's Defender |
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Ohio - "It's a percussion orchestra from low pitch to high
pitch," Myer said. "The band has a long list of instruments including
the usual snare, quad and bass drums plus lead steel
drums, double seconds, electronic keyboard and bass. Winter percussion band
practices. Photo by Andrew Trefz There are more unique instruments such as two gongs, tambourines, shakers, scrapers, xylophone marimbas and bells and lots of cymbals. |
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Web Posted -
Monday
May 16,
2005 Trinidad Express |
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Chicago bids to
host Pan Final 2007 |
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Trinidad
- Even before determination of playing positions for the eight
orchestras competing at next month's World Steelband Music Festival
final in New York, another major American city has indicated
interest in hosting the 2007 edition. |
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Web Posted -
Monday
May 16,
2005 When Steel Talks |
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UI PanAmerican Steel |
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Iowa
- UI School of Music faculty member Dan Moore will lead a 10-member
ensemble performing music from Cuba, China, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Monday
May 16,
2005 Jamaica Observer |
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Jamaica -
In the early days of her teaching
career she copped a silver medal for choreography in the Jamaica
Cultural Development Commission's (JCDC's) festival of the
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However, her
greatest artistic triumph to date is the founding of the Trench Town
High School steel band, in 1993.|
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Friday
May 13,
2005 The Conway Daily Sun |
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Maine -
Steel drums have quickly evolved to be some of the
most versatile around. Debbie Anderson, Steel Dreams member,
remarked that "you can play any kind of music on these instruments."
That was certainly illustrated at the festival where Steel Industry,
a high school band from Yarmouth, Maine, played "Stayin' Alive," and
Blazing Sun Steel Orchestra, the host band from Bates College,
played a movement of a Beethoven symphony. |
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Web Posted -
Tuesday
May 10,
2005 When Steel Talks - |
Great Expectations - WSMF
New Yorkers Expect The Best
New York's Steelpan community
expresses concern and outrage over Trinidad's operation within their
sphere...
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Web Posted -
Monday
May 9,
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Ebony Helps UK Youths |
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By Neidi Lee-Sing Rojas The Millennium Volunteers programme is about recruiting young people between the ages 16-24 to learn to play the steelpan, free of charge. It is a UK government programme aimed at helping these youths complete Volunteering hours and receiving a National certificate as a reward and a reference when applying for jobs or further education. |
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organization
and is working towards offering young people the opportunity to develop
their music interests and offers young people the opportunity to become
“Millennium|
Web Posted -
Monday
May 9,
2005 The Tobago News - Editorial |
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April 29th 2005
Steelband Slipping Away |
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Trinidad -
THE EDITOR: I HAD hoped for some time that at
least the steelband movement would be the catalyst to reaffirm our
being as a unique people with much to offer the outside world. Our
Carnival had become a caricature of Brazil's Carnival, our theatre
offers us Porgy and Bess, our economy almost wholly dependent on
offshore activity, our education system concerned only with
certification.
Our steelband was the only institution that offered some hope. It was not long ago that our steelbands reached and touched our very being. We could not contain ourselves with the inner joy that its music elicited from our very soul. If we lose our authentic steelband culture, what hope is there left for us to forge our own identity as a people? Full Story |
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Monday May
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East Oakland Youth
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Classes meet: |
Oakland,
California - Steelpans
offer basic and intermediate instruction in playing the steelpan
drum. Participants receive instruction on historical development of
pans and the musical scales used in playing the instrument.
Participants will learn how to play pans, how to maintain and set up
pans for a performance and how to read sheet music. Intermediate and
advanced participants are given the opportunity to take part in
public performances.|
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Monday
May 9,
2005 Daily NonPareil |
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Musician to perform Caribbean sounds |
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Iowa
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Stanley Dahl, a freelance percussionist and
educator will be an artist-in-residence at several Council Bluffs
School District elementary schools on May 9 and 10. Dahl's concerts are known for audience participation, and he has been extremely successful with young audiences who are currently interested in Caribbean sounds along with a new popularity in drums of all kinds, according to information provided by the Bluffs Arts Council. The distinctive sound of the steel drum can have a profound effect on listeners. It conjures images of pristine Caribbean islands with warm sun, blue skies, blue water and calm, quiet white-sand beaches. Dahl says although a lack of familiarity with traditional dance styles like calypso, mambo and salsa can initially stifle audience participation, the combination to get up and move definitely catches on. |
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Monday
May 9,
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PANPittsburgh 2005 |
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Pittsburg, Penn. -
Organized
by Janera Solomon, PANPittsburgh|2005 brings the beautiful
sounds of steelpan to downtown Pittsburgh.
PANPittsburgh|2005 celebrates the diversity of steelband music with
performances by the region’s steelbands including Ambridge Area High
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and from Bismarck North Dakota, the University of Mary Steelband,
with steelpan virtuoso Phil Solomon and Steel Impressions Steelband.
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Web Posted -
Monday May
9,
2005 Trinidad Guardian |
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CLICO supports local pan jazz performer Trinidad - Colonial Life Insurance Co continued to show its support for local music by purchasing copies of the latest CD by pan jazz performer Ray Holman. The CD is titled Ray Holman—In Touch and Clico’s purchase of it is also intended to show support for a long time client. Holman has been a Clico client for the last decade. Full Story |
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Web Posted -
Monday May
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Warwickshire Youth Steel Pan OrchestraBy Nicky Watson |
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United
Kingdom - The Warwickshire Youth Steel Pan
Orchestra is being formed this year due to Warwickshire's increased
number of experienced steel pan players. The Music Centre groups have
all reached good standards and have performed on many occasions for
concerts, weddings, fetes and festivals.|
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Monday May
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Festival of the Arts goes ahead on Brac By Nicky Watson |
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Cayman Islands-
The show must go on, as they say. On Cayman Brac
last Saturday 30 April, the show was the Festival of the Arts, normally
an annual event to showcase winners in the national competition.|
Web Posted -
Saturday May 7,
2005 The Bar Harbor Times |
Big Splash
Review by Nan Lincoln
Maine -
It began with the uplifting "Flying High," in which the dancers were
transformed into kite flyers, their colorful kites and the playful winds
that kept them aloft.
There
was all sorts of swirling, twirling, skipping and leaping while the
steel band banged, rattled and clanged out an appropriate and fun
calypso beat. Even without the program in hand, Maureen Lynch's
choreography was so evocative that anyone who had ever flown a kite
couldn't have missed her metaphors of motion.
As great as the Planet Pan sound was, I was concerned that a full show
of that percussive sound and driving beat might be a bit jarring. Those
fears were laid to rest when the ensemble performed a delicate and
delightful version of the "Sleeping Beauty Suite" that made one forget
the tune was being hammered out on steel.
Full Story
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Web Posted -
Saturday May 7,
2005 Diversity Now |
Focal Point: Steelpan - Playing in De Band
by Carolyn Woodall
Canada -
Steel Pan is the sound of the Caribbean. Like
waves crashing on the shore or the rustling of coconut trees, steel pan
is an integral part of Caribbean culture.
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Jesse Ketchum Steel Orchestra |
"Steel pan is the newest percussion instrument in the
20th century," says Mark Mosca, arranger for the Silhouettes Steel
Orchestra.
A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Mosca provides the
creativity, innovation and musical vision that led the Silhouettes to
take first place in last year's Pan Alive competition, Toronto premiere
steel band competition.
"I fullfill the band's musical needs," explains this quiet-spoken young
man. In reality he does a lot more than that. As an arranger, Mosca is
capable of playing and instructing on each pan instrument in the band.
And here is the reason.
Full Story
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Saturday May
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HeadTalk Percussion School and Performance Groups |
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Colorado
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HeadTalk is Northern Colorado ’s premier percussion school that
offers drum lessons and ensembles to musicians
of all ages and abilities.
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Web Posted -
Thursday May 5,
2005 Times Standard |
Good vibrations: HSU
Percussion Ensemble and Calypso Band beat to the sounds of a different
drum
by Rory Williams
Eureka CA -
Feel
the energy pulse through your veins and lose yourself in the hypnotic
rhythms of Humboldt State University's Percussion Ensemble and Calypso
Band as they hammer out experimental and international sounds at the Van
Duzer Theatre on Saturday night.
Brazilian and African drumming styles highlight the first half of the
concert along with Lynn Glasock's "Connected Forces," a jazz-fusion
contemporary masterpiece that beckons 15 percussionists and requires
more than 40 instruments.
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Web Posted -
Thursday May 5,
2005 Central Ohio Network |
Local Caribbean Drum Ensemble
performs at festival
COSHOCTON, Ohio -
Things came to life on the courtsquare as sunshine warmed the grass
and festive music played during the lunchtime hour Wednesday.
The River View High School Caribbean Drum Ensemble performed as part
of the annual Dogwood Festival.
Matt Hayes, a River View High School graduate who is now directing the
group, was a member of the first ensemble in 2000.
"I think Mr. (Tom) McLeish started it because he studied percussion in
school," he said. "Plus it's a fun thing to do, and kids are always
looking for something else to do."
When Hayes was in the band there were 11 members. This year 20 young
people are in the group.
Interest has definitely grown.
"This is the first year it's been really big, so we'll see next year,"
he said.
Members in the band usually practice a couple of hours each week
beginning the first of the year.
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Web Posted -
Monday May 2,
2005 When Steel Talks - Exclusive |
Jazz Back In Harlem -
A Steelpan Affair
The Garvin Blake Quintet
at the Uptown Renaissance Restaurant
In Review
Harlem, New York - In the stomping grounds
of where just one name of the jazz greats are needed - i.e. Bird, Max,
Miles, Coltrane, Dizzy, Basie and Duke among
others -
Garvin Blake and his quintet brought us back to an era when jazz and
blues reigned supreme uptown, in Harlem. The group is also known
as the Garvin Blake Ensemble, and Garvin Blake and Friends. The
much-anticipated gig has been the buzz of the town the last few days as
NYC jazz fans scurried to get advance tickets to the show.
Sunday's Pan Jazz event at the restaurant was completely sold-out. The Uptown crowd at the Renaissance Restaurant was not disappointed. Garvin Blake and his complement of stellar musicians (Frankie McIntosh, Damon Duewhite, Calvin Jones and Tony Cedras) in their own right, moved with the spirit of the great ones as they treated the audience to a jazz music performance that was befitting of the historical musical significance of hallowed Harlem ground they were on... This capacity crowd was treated to a special moment.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday May
3,
2005 When Steel Talks - Exclusive |
Uptown Renaissance
Restaurant brings a class act to Harlem, New York Harlem,
New York -
The Garvin
Blake Quintet
plays to a sell-out crowd
For
some, they looked forward to revisiting the musical combination that had so
wowed them on Father's Day last year, at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully
Hall, when the quintet had performed there. From that show, and
joining steel pannist Garvin (on double seconds) at this performance, were
Frankie McIntosh on keyboards, Tony Cedras on accordion, and
Calvin Jones on bass. Renowned percussionist Damon Duewhite
who is also part of Garvin Blake's regular retinue, rounded out the group.
Others patrons were music lovers with a taste for anything jazz; and came
out for an experience which promised to be at least intriguing.
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Web Posted -
Monday May 2,
2005 When Steel Talks - Exclusive |
University of Connecticut Students
Hook Up With Pantonic Steel Orchestra
Brooklyn, New York - New York powerhouse
Pantonic Steel Orchestra hosted a mini-seminar and concert exclusively
for the students of University of Connecticut (UConn) steelband.
Eight
students form the University's Steelband traveled from their
campus to the home of Pantonic Steel Orchestra in Brooklyn,
the North American Mecca of Steelpan activity, as a means of interacting
with and experiencing first-hand the performance of, a championship steel
orchestra. The meeting was indeed an educational one.
The Business of Steelpan Music 24 -7
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Web Posted -
Friday
May 27,
2005 When Steel Talks - Spotlight |
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Happy Birthday Mr. Jules |
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When Steel Talks extends belated Best Wishes to steelpan great Neville Jules of the famed Trinidad All Stars on his birthday, celebrated last week |
The Distinguished Gentleman The bar for "greatness" has been set very high.... It's a place where very few reside or will ever even visit... We at WST have been fortunate from time to time, to rub shoulders with these elite few. Today we focus on another icon who is part of that infinitesimally small list of people, who would be great in any era - any season - any place - any capacity. Moreover, they did not seek greatness - but rather greatness sought them out, and aligned itself with them, because of who they are. They
elevated the human spirit, and more importantly, made those around
them better than they could be, by operating outside the "box" and
not being limited to environment, resources or popular or unpopular
modes of thinking.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday
May 24,
2005 When Steel Talks - Exclusive |
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NYSSO On THE Move!! Brooklyn, NY Six dynamic and driven young pan musicians dropped by the
studios of When Steel
Talks recently to announce the formation of
NYSSO: The New York Symphonic Steel Orchestra. The young people are
on the NYSSO Committee, |
and call various New York steel orchestras home,
including Despers USA, CASYM, and Pantonic Steel Orchestra. But
currently, NYSSO boasts a membership of talented and skilled pan players
from almost all of New York's steelbands including the afore-mentioned
bands, as well as but not limited to - CrossFire, Pan Phoniks and Harmony.
And many more are seeking out the organization as its existence becomes common
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What do Ralph MacDonald, Pelham Goddard, Ray Holman, Clive Bradley, Ellie Mannette, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, Dr. Dawn Batson, Robert Greenidge, Leon "Smooth" Edwards, Garvin Blake, Andy Narell, Arddin Herbert, Liam Teague, Merle Albino-De Coteau, Edwin (Crazy) Ayoung, Ken "Professor" Philmore, Jit Samaroo, Rudy Smith, Kyron Akal, Yoshihiro Harada, Yohan Popwell, many many others, and you all have in common?
You all get your latest steelpan music
news from GSMN (Global
Steelpan Music
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Web Posted -
Friday May
13,
2005 When Steel Talks - Spotlight |
Cool Steel is an hour-long program on the PanOnTheNet Radio network that features popular steelpan music from all over the world. Whether you are new to the industry or have years of experience, you will want to check out this unique program. The show's success and international appeal can be directly attributed to the global meteoric rise in the awareness and popularity of the steelpan instrument.
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Steelpan Great - Robert Greenidge At When Steel Talks Studios where many Cool Steel Programs are produced |
Moreover, the show offers a fresh and unique voice not heard often before, in addition to easy accessibility of internet music on demand. Musicians, educators and fans log on each week to catch the program from all over the world. Cool Steel continues to break all the barriers and rules as its global attraction confounds experts as to its appeal and success.
The Program director say the show's listenership has doubled every month. "We hope to top the 'one million' mark by end of 2006." Tune in and hear the finest steelpan music in the world from Japan to New York.
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Web Posted -
Monday May 9,
2005 When Steel Talks - Spotlight |
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Iman Pascall To Represent New York At National Competition
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On
April 23rd, 2005 Iman Pascall entered the Performing Arts
category for musical instrumental (Steel-Pan) and won the Gold medal
in Contemporary category, and the Bronze medal in Classical at
the NAACP NYC ACT-SO competition. In July she heads to
Milwaukee, WI to compete in the National Competition representing
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2005 When Steel Talks - Pan , Calypso and the Calypsonian Special  |
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Live Stage 2 Performance When
Steel Talks presents a live performance special to the PanOnTheNet
family as part of our continued look at
Pan, Calypso and the
Calypsonian.
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Web Posted -
Tuesday May 3,
2005 When Steel Talks - Exclusive |
Pantonic Steel Orchestra Connects with
UConn Steeldrums
Brooklyn, New York -
Stage side members of four-time New York
Panorama champions recently welcomed students with a penchant for pan
from the University of Connecticut (UConn), to their Brooklyn practice
room for a steelpan workshop. The structured session began with a
performance exhibition of Pantonic flagship selections including
Trini To the Bone, Celebrate and
Time After Time.
The students included Music Education majors and others with an interest in music, all of whom were band members of UConn Steeldrums. The inclement weather this past Saturday was no match for the determination of the band members and their teacher, Dr. Robert W. Stephens, to journey to Brooklyn, New York for the band's first-ever steelpan workshop.
Renegades Steel Orchestra On European Tour
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April 28,
2005 When Steel Talks - Exclusive |
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Pan Jazz Moves to
Uptown New York - Pan Jazz is moving uptown, literally, to the Uptown Renaissance Restaurant in Harlem on Sunday May 1. Making the move for the day, or rather the evening, are Garvin Blake and Friends who received critical acclaim at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on Father's Day last year and wowed the audience with their performance.
Uptown Renaissance restaurant
opened its doors a little over a year
ago on April 9, 2004.
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The
establishment astutely recognized the importance of their community,
and therefore remained sensitive to its needs. Subsequently
the Callistes have opted to carry on in the tradition of the
preceding establishment, and ensure that clientele from their
surrounding community continue to feel welcome, while simultaneously
catering to consumers from all areas.
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