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The latest CD from Ralph MacDonald is "Mixty Motions ". It's the
masterful Ralph MacDonald surrounded by fantastic musicians as well as
two new performances by the great duo, Ashford and Simpson. As
with previous Ralph MacDonald releases, steelpan instruments played by
Robert Greenidge maintain a prominent role in defining the attitude of
the CD.
Click to hear sample
Web Posted -
Thursday January 31, 2008
When Steel
Talks
Pan Elders Win Small Band Panorama for 2008
Trinidad - LH
Pan Groove proved to be the
undisputed Single Pan Band
Champion for the fourth
consecutive year to take
home the first prize of
$180,000.00.
The Arima community
steelband playing a Duvonne
Stewart arrangement of Edwin
“Crazy” Ayoung’s
“Soucouyant” amassed 468.5
point beating its nearest
rival by 16 points at last
night’s bmobile Panorama
Small and Single Pan Band
Finals at the Northern
Greens, Queen’s Park
Savannah.
Placing second is Marsicans,
another Arima band with 452
points. They played “Pan In
A Minor” arranged by Marlon
White. Third spot went to
T&T Defence Force for their
“fiery” arrangement of Cecil
Hume’s tune of the same
name.
Pan Elders of Carib Street,
San Fernando, maintained
their lead to clinch the
Small Band title and
$400,000. Their tune of
choice, “Latin On De Court”
composed and sang by The
Original De Fosto Himself,
earned them a comfortable
six (6) point lead over
second placed Arima Golden
Symphony who scored 470
points.
Web Posted -
Wednesday January
31,
2008
Trinidad Newsday
Soundsetters ‘crash’ THA final
Tobago, W.I.
- Pandemonium broke out during the THA Panorama
Final in Tobago last night when Pan Trinbago
officials disqualified RBTT Redemption Sound-setters
for having too many players.
Soundsetters, which has booked a spot in Saturday’s
national Panorama final at Skinner Park, San
Fernando, in South Trinidad, had assembled on stage
and officials conducted a count of the number of
players. The officials said the band had an
estimated 115 players, more than the regulated
maximum of 75 and was disqualified.
Web Posted -
Thursday January
31,
2008 Trinidad Express
Steel Xplosion THA pan champs
Trinidad -
Petrotrin Steel Xplosion
captured the 2008 THA Pan
Champs title on Tuesday
night at the Dwight Yorke
Stadium in Bacolet.
However,
there was a major
controversy on the night
when multi-time Tobago
champs RBTT Redemption Sound
Setters refused to abide by
Pan Trinbago's rule, which
stated that each band be
limited to 75 pannists. As a
result, the popular Bethel
steelband was not judged by
the panel.
Rennison
Quashie, chairman of Pan
Trinbago's Tobago Region,
said the rule was
established by the steel
band body last year, while
the Redemption leader was
part of the executive of the
Tobago region.
Web Posted -
Thursday January 30,
2008
Trinidad Newsday
Pan Thers
devour single pan rivals
Tobago, W.I.
- Tobago Pan Thers devoured the competition
in the THA Panorama Single Pan final on Monday
night, winning the title with a dynamic rendition of
Lord Kitchener’s “Bees Melody.”
Pan Thers beat five other bands, including two-time
defending champions Dem Boys, in a keenly contested
musical showdown at the Scarborough Esplanade,
Scarborough.
The band’s performance of the Delbert “Tots” Henry
arrangement delighted the small crowd and the judges
who awarded them 260 points, nine points more than
Dem Boys, who missed out on a hattrick.
Web Posted -
Wednesday January 29,
2008
Trinidad Newsday
Sonia Sonic for Panorama
Trinidad,
W.I.
- Patrons attending last Sunday’s National Panorama
Semi-Final at the Queen’s Park Savannah would have
noticed a new seven-bass pan featuring prominently
among the instruments being used by Phase II Pan
Groove.
The instrument was invented by English-based
Grenadian pan tuner Dudley Dickson who told Newsday
he started working on the invention some ten years
ago. He named the bass calls the “Sonia Sonic” after
a female pannist with Ebony Steelband in England.
Dudley said he placed emphasis on the structure and
the acoustics of the pan.
Web Posted -
Wednesday January 29,
2008
Trinidad Newsday
All Stars’ ‘Thunder’ with a vengeance
Trinidad - Reigning
Panorama champions Neal & Massy All Stars continued
their dominance of this year’s Panorama competition
when the band garnered 468 points in a pulsating
performance at the Panorama semis at the Queen’s
Park Savannah on Sunday — 8.5 points clear of
second-placed Phase II Pan Groove.
All Stars gave an exciting performance of “Thunder
Coming,” arranged by Leon “Smooth” Edwards that had
the crowd thoroughly entertained throughout its
performance.
Web Posted -
Wednesday January 29,
2008
Trinidad Newsday
Renegades Youth wins Panorama
Trinidad - bp
Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra halted St. Augustine
Secondary Comprehensive School’s run for a fourth
consecutive title by topping the under 21 category
of the national Junior Panorama championship
yesterday.
The Renegades Youth orchestra, spared no punches as
the players put down a performance that could have
even stood up to its adult parent band, bp
Renegades.
Web Posted -
Wednesday January 23,
2008
When Steel Talks
Music Manufacturers Ignore
Steelband Music Super Bowl
Drum and Percussion organizations dis Panfolks
New
York - Where
is the Love?? In less than two weeks the
greatest event and gathering of percussion
musicians, performers and fans in the world will be
gathering for the annual Steelband music panorama
competition in the Mecca of the steelpan instrument
Trinidad and Tobago. Panorama, the most
passionate and fierce music competition on earth, is
now in its
45th
year. Yet to date
no major music, percussion or drum manufacturer has
provided any significant backing or endorsement to
any of the major steel orchestras world wide.
No banner with the name of a major music
manufacturer has ever crossed the stage. This
fact is nauseating and repugnant. Imagine that
- ignoring the single most popular tuned percussion
event on the planet.
Web Posted -
Monday January 21,
2008
When Steel Talks
The Best of Pan Radio
As we prepare to kick off our new season delivering the best steelpan
music on radio from all over the globe to the music savvy When Steel
Talks audience, we figured we would whet your appetite with a reminder
of why you made PanOnTheNet Radio the number one steelpan music
forum. The best of "Pan Radio" is up and running with a music
archive marathon featuring hours of your favorite PanRadio sessions.
Steelpan music with no compromise - no apology!!
Web Posted -
Monday January 23,
2008
When Steel Talks
Pan Hits Sour
Note
Officials in blame game
after Savannah return
Although the National Carnival Commission (NCC)
had assured that it would have completed works at the Queen's
Park Savannah, Port of Spain in time for the Panorama
preliminaries and promised a prompt start of the show, this did
not materialise. Up to 9 a.m. yesterday, workmen were busy
cleaning and putting the finishing touches to the facility.
The competition, which returned to the Savannah after a six-year
absence, drew hundreds of pan enthusiasts. However, the show did
not get underway until about 11 a.m., two hours after the
scheduled time.
Web Posted -
Monday January 21,
2008
Princeton News
CASYM
Celebrates Dr. King's Holiday at Princeton
Event
honors King's vision for
equality
Campus and local
community
members honored
Martin Luther
King Jr.'s
vision for
America as a
land of equal
opportunity --
and imagined his
response to
today's heated
debates on
immigration --
at Princeton's
annual King Day
ceremony Jan.
21.
José Huizar, a
University
trustee and
graduate alumnus
who is the first
Latino immigrant
to serve as a
member of the
Los Angeles City
Council,
delivered the
keynote address.
He reflected on
how King's
message of
equality applies
to the current
political
dispute over
U.S. immigration
laws, which
shares many of
the same issues
at the center of
the civil rights
movement of the
1960s.
Web Posted -
Monday January 21,
2008
Trinidad Newsday
G-pan absent from Panorama
The new pans that have been termed “Steelpan
Revolution” with their 37 notes would not be used in this year’s
Panorama.
Pan Trinbago President, Patrick Arnold, when contacted said the
pans that were unveiled last year July are still a “work in
progress”.
“It is something that is still being developed and most pan men
would not have access to it,” he said.
He believes the pans which include the G-pan, an improved
double-second (replacing double tenor and other string
instruments) and one bass that will incorporate all existing
basses would be ready for Panorama 2009 but is not sure if it
will be accepted by all the bands.
Web Posted -
Monday January 20,
2008
Trinidad Guardian
Renegades has
new arranger for Panorama
Trinidad -
Celebrated musician Jit Samaroo is not arranging for BP
Renegades Steel Orchestra for this year’s Panorama competition
due to illness.
It would be the first time in 38 years that Renegades would
enter the music contest not playing Samaroo’s arrangement of its
tune-of-choice when the band competes in today north-east zonal
Panorama preliminaries at the Queen’s Park Savannah,
Port-of-Spain.
Instead, Samaroo’s son Amrit, who led Renegades’ Youth Steel
Orchestra to a hattrick at the Junior Panorama competition for
the last three years, is now in charge of the musical direction
of the senior band.
His name would be emblazoned on Renegades’ banner at its
arranger when the nine-time Panorama champion performs Thunder.
Professor Instrumental in Promoting Pan in the Diaspora
Delaware -
Following his distinction for having the most
requested pan song on the internet via Basement
Recordings of his arrangement of the tune “Nah
Going Home Till de Morning Come” with Harmony
Steelband of New York- Ken “Professor” Philmore
received yet another accolade in his career as a
pannist. He’s literally responsible for grooming
many youngsters who are currently promoting the
gospel of pan in foreign countries.
Ken was the guest of PAN DIASPORA, a newly found
call-in programme on WACK 90.1 FM Radio in San
Fernando, Trinidad. The feature is hosted by
DJ Heshimu and co-host Hollis Clifton each
Sunday from 4 PM to 5 PM within “Pan in Yuh
Pwefen” which itself runs from 3 to 6 PM.
Delaware - It's not every day
a group of teens can skip school, travel to the
Caribbean and play with some of the greatest
musicians in the world.
It happens once a year for a group of students
at the Southern Delaware School of the Arts.
These students, temporarily relocated to the
former Indian River High School in Frankford
because of renovations to their Selbyville
school, comprise Steel the Show, a steel drum
band founded more than four years ago by SDSA
instructor John Syphard.
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad --- Four time Panorama winner, the
Exodus Steel Orchestra, has commenced its
preparations for the Carnival competition,
musical arranger Anthony Rose has disclosed.
Originally from St.
Augustine, Trinidad, Rose has not only
headed the Exodus Steel Pan Orchestra for
the past 27 years but also currently teaches
music in local schools.
“I am the first captain of
Exodus and one of the arrangers since the
inception in 1981 up until present.
We take part in the annual Panorama
competition, the Music Festival and any
other national steel band competitions as
well as private engagements and foreign
tours,” he outlined.
For the uninformed, TGIPF is the title of Pan
Trinbago South/Central Region Pan Preliminaries
carded for Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Friday
18th January 2008. Starting time is 6:00 pm.
Eight (8) Single Pan Bands and twenty two (22)
Conventional Bands will perform their Panorama
2008 selections before separate panels of
adjudicators. Each category – Small, Medium,
Large and Single Pans Bands- has its own judging
panel.
Illinois Style: How NIU's musical steel pans are made
De Kalb, Ill. - Cliff Alexis grasps a wooden beam by two
small handlebars sticking out of the sides, raises the
pogo-stick-shaped piece of wood above a 55-gallon oil barrel
and drives the bottom down into the can lid.
The barrel resonates with a sound _ a thud with a bright
ring at the end of it _ that will eventually be clear
musical notes after Alexis hammers the metal into the right
shape.
"My back doesn't let me crawl inside these anymore, so I use
this," Alexis said about the plank. "Sometimes you get stuck
inside.".
Trinidad & Tobago -
Judging for Single Pan Bands Panorama Preliminaries in Tobago will take the form of a “Pan Caravan.”
The event takes place on one day, Saturday 19 January 2008, with six (6) bands performing their 2K8 Panorama selections before the panel of judges.
First off the starting blocks is Tobago Pan-thers playing “Bees’ Melody”
at the Golden Lane Government Primary School, at 6:30 pm
ending with Metro Stars at Pembroke Community Centre Hard
Court at 10:00 pm. Their tune of choice is “The Will.”
Trinidad & Tobago - Forty Six (46) Conventional Steel Bands from the North and East Regions will on Sunday 20th January 2008 start “de carnival’ at the Queen’s Park Savannah venue (Northern Greens), Port of Spain, from 9:00 am
Dr. Kim
Johnson & Folk Arts Institute Provide Live
Historical Look at the Development of the
Steelpan Movement In Pictures
New York
- Once again Sesame Flyers International
Cultural Center was the focus of another edifying and
inspiring steelpan music experience. Indeed it was one of
those "you should have been there" type of activities.
The event, referred to as the "Historical Images of the
Steelband Movement" operated under the auspices of the
Trinidad and Tobago Folk Arts Institute led by
Mr. Les Slater. Mr. Kim Johnson of the University of
Trinidad and Tobago delivered his presentation to the capacity
crowd which had assembled at the Sesame Flyers facility in
Brooklyn, New York.
Trinidad -
British-based panist Dudley Dickson was quite
emphatic in stating that he was outsmarted with
his original creation of the Collapsible Pan
Stand which he says invented in the United Kingdom in
1981. This is the said stand which is now being widely used
and adopted by orchestras such as Phase II Pan Groove in Port of
Spain, Trinidad – where incidentally Dudley
himself is currently the band's
resident tuner for the 2K8 carnival
season.
Dudley believes that many people in the Pan
Diaspora are aware that Trinidad and Tobago is
the home of pan, though not consciously so.
He laments, nonetheless, that credit for his
invention of the 'Collapsible Pan Stand' was
given to San Fernando’s son of the soil,
Winston Graham, without adequate research being
done. Today, however, it is hoped that the
record has been set straight.
Trinidad - At least
ten (10) Conventional steelbands in the
South/Central (5) and Eastern regions (5) have
selected Winston Scarborough’s “Latin on de
Court” as their tune of choice in this year’s
Panorama competition.
De Fosto, as he is also called, for the second
consecutive year is the prime pan song composer
and performer finding favor with the majority of
arrangers.
Following a close second in terms of popularity
with seven (7) plays is the Edwin Pouchet/Alvin
Daniell’s “Thunder Coming” sung by Chucky while
“Celebration Time” composed by Edwin Pouchet/Mark
Loquan and sung by Steve Sealy will be played
six times.
Len ”Boogsie” Sharpe’s “Musical Vengeance” sung
by Anslem Douglas is the choice of five steel
orchestras in the Northern Region. click to read full
story
Web Posted
- January 3,
2008 When Steel Talks
Terry Joseph
- TnT Journalist Passes
Trinidad - Terry Joseph, one of
Trinidad and Tobago's premiere news,
information, historian and cultural journalists
has passed at the age of 60, in Georgia, USA.
For the past year Mr. Joseph had been valiantly
battling cancer. He is survived by his
wife and child.
An extremely intelligent and gifted writer,
Joseph was a staunch proponent of Trinidad and
Tobago culture. In this regard, When Steel
Talks has been fortunate to have liaised with
Mr. Joseph on various aspects of steelpan
customs, traditions, history and culture.
In an exclusive interview just a few months ago,
Terry Joseph shared many of his hopes, concerns
and laments as it relates to the steelpan
instrument and Trinidad and Tobago traditions.
When Steel Talks extends deep condolences to his
wife, family and friends.
The
When Steel Talks choices for the best of the
year 2007 in steelpan music events and
occurrences. Everything from band of the
year to song of the year.
Trinidad
- At the close of registration, 79 Conventional
Bands and 61 Single Pan Bands were listed to
participate in the Preliminary round of
competitions. (See attached schedule).
From the above, 42 Conventional Bands will be
selected for the Semi Finals (Savannah Party) at
the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on
Sunday 20th January 2008, beginning at 11:00 am
while 32 Single Bands contest their semi-finals
opposite Victoria Square, Park Street, on
Saturday 26th January 2008, Port of Spain, at
6:00 pm
The Finals for Medium and Large Conventional
Bands will be held at Skinner Park, San
Fernando, on Saturday 02nd February at 6:00 pm.
Small Conventional Bands and Single Pan Bands
Finals will take place on Wednesday 20th January
2008 at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of
Spain.
The
“Mixty Motions”
of Ralph MacDonald Revealed The Epic Interview
In the Spotlight
Percussionist
Ralph MacDonald is visual and sometimes quietly
intense but always expressive, and is a compendium
of unique island and conventional percussive rhythms.
The
When Steel Talks (WST)
crew was privileged to sit down with the dynamic
musician in his Stamford, Connecticut home and preview
Mixty Motions his newest CD before its
release. MacDonald has done a lot of interviews,
but only here with WST,
in addition to the detailed look at Mixty Motions,
does the world get the inside scoop on his full
relationship with the steelpan, and his intimate
connection with what is the national instrument
of Trinidad and Tobago, and hear him proudly proclaim
that his favorite orchestra is the mighty Desperadoes
Steel Orchestra nestled in the hills of Laventille...
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Trinidad -
Petrotrin Steel Xplosion
captured the 2008 THA Pan
Champs title on Tuesday
night at the Dwight Yorke
Stadium in Bacolet.
Tobago, W.I.
- Tobago Pan Thers devoured the competition
in the THA Panorama Single Pan final on Monday
night, winning the title with a dynamic rendition of
Lord Kitchener’s “Bees Melody.”
Trinidad,
W.I.
- Patrons attending last Sunday’s National Panorama
Semi-Final at the Queen’s Park Savannah would have
noticed a new seven-bass pan featuring prominently
among the instruments being used by Phase II Pan
Groove.
New
York -
Campus and local
community
members honored
Martin Luther
King Jr.'s
vision for
America as a
land of equal
opportunity --
and imagined his
response to
today's heated
debates on
immigration --
at Princeton's
annual King Day
ceremony Jan.
21.
Delaware - It's not every day
a group of teens can skip school, travel to the
Caribbean and play with some of the greatest
musicians in the world.
