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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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Web Posted - Friday May 31, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Did St Mary’s have first school pan side?

Silver Stars conductor Donnell Thomas known for his theatricality had patrons at Pan with the Saints intrigued by his costume for the band’s performance of music from Phantom of the Opera
 

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - ....A surprising revelation was made early in the proceedings by St Mary’s Dean Enrico Rajah, one which sent pan archivists and Pan Trinbago officials searching their memories for verification.

Rajah said he had been informed the previous Thursday, by St Mary’s alumnae Ernest Ferreira, that St Mary’s College had a school steelband in 1947. Rajah added that students of St Mary’s and St Joseph’s Convent also produced a Carnival band in 1951. Rajah said the well-beaten belief that Catholic priests outlawed the playing of the national instrument by students is a myth, and that students were neither given detention or suspended for playing pan. But, a few St Mary’s alumni, who attended the College in the ‘50s, said that they were disciplined for playing in steelbands.
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Web Posted - Friday May 31, 2013
St. Maarten Island Time.com

3rd Annual Summer Steel Pan Workshop set for 1st of July

Annual Summer Steel Pan Workshop
 

Philipsburg, St. Maarten - The Dow Musical Foundation is now preparing for their 2013 workshop.

The Mighty Dow Sir. Isidore York told our news room that the event also known as the 3rd Annual Summer Steel Pan Workshop will officially start on July 1st and will run through to the 19th.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 30, 2013
City University London   

Rachel Hayward directs Gibraltar steel band debut
 

Rachel HaywardEngland, UK - Gibraltar’s first steel band made its debut in April under the direction of City PhD student Rachel Hayward. Royal Gibraltar Regimental Band Leader, Craig Philbin, aims to nurture community music-making on the Rock. Inspired by the bands he heard in Jamaica, he contacted Rachel to help initiate the project.

Rachel introduced members of the Regimental Band to traditional Trinidadian Carnival songs, ran workshops with local school children, and trained up two youth groups who then performed and won both their classes in the Rock’s Youth Music Festival.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 30, 2013
The Baltimore Times

Free outdoor concert featuring The Old Mill Steel Drum Band

The Old Mill Steel Drum Band
 

Maryland, USA - Enjoy a free outdoor concert on the labyrinth featuring The Old Mill Steel Drum Band at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. Part of the Sachs Memorial Summer Concert Series, the performance takes place on Maryland Hall’s front lawn, so bring your lawn chair, blanket, and a picnic basket and settle in for a relaxing evening of jazz on the labyrinth.

Walking through the hallways of Old Mill High School, you will recognize the sounds of the strings, band instruments, and singers practicing. One sound that you may not recognize is the sound of their Steel Drum Band. The Old Mill Steel Drum Band is a group of 25-30 performers who play a unique style of music from Trinidad right here in Maryland.
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Web Posted - Wednesday May 29, 2013
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US Vice President Joe Biden tries out a steelpan

US Vice President Joe Biden and the steelpan
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, tries out a steelpan, the traditional percussion instrument of the Caribbean twin-island country, during their meeting at the Diplomatic Center in St. Ann’s, Trinidad.
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....“I’m asking each of you heads of state to please write a note to President Obama,” he said. “Tell him it’s critical that I come back to Trinidad and Tobago and then I can visit each of your islands for us to stay at least a couple weeks.”

....Minutes after he ended his speech and bid the Prime Minister farewell, Biden stopped the vehicle that was taking him to the Piarco International Airport in order to give one final message to the Persad-Bissessar.

“Don’t forget that steel-drum is mine!” he said. “You tell President Obama that!” As with his arrival on Monday night, Biden had been greeted hours earlier by pan music as he walked the red-carpet to enter the double doors of the Diplomatic Centre at 11:14 a.m.
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Web Posted - Tuesday May 28, 2013
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Pan with the Saints a resounding success

The CIC Pan Ensemble delights the crowd
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The inaugural “Pan With The Saints,” presented by the Organising Committee of St Mary’s College 150th Anniversary celebrations was a resounding success on Sunday.

The event was one of several to mark the College’s Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary of the Arrival of The Holy Ghost Fathers in this country and also the Founding of St Mary’s College.

On Sunday pan lovers were promised 150 minutes of pan music at its best from five of the top steelbands in the land that have deep roots in St Mary’s College, and the St Mary’s College Pan Ensemble. That they got at the school grounds from selected bands birdsong, Witco Desperadoes Steel Orchestra, Republic Bank Exodus, PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars and White Oak Starlift Steel Orchestra.
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Web Posted - Monday May 27, 2013
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Just Listen!! - The classic “Ah Goin’ an Party Tonight” - arranged Clive Bradley and performed by Desperadoes Steel Orchestra
 


 

Global - The classic Ah Goin’ an Party Tonight - arranged Clive Bradley and performed by Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. 1988 World Steelband Festival Champions.
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Web Posted - Monday May 27, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Birdsong Academy to hold free vacation music camp
 

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - Do you play pan, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, flute, clarinet, keyboards, percussion, guitar or bass? Do you sing? Are you in secondary school or have you recently completed SEA and are about to enter secondary school? Are you a recent secondary school graduate? Now is the time to enhance your musical skills with an intensive five-week programme of sight-reading, harmony, ear-training, technique, ensemble playing, theatre arts and local music history.

In addition, there will be many other courses to support the development of your musical talents. If you like what you are reading then Birdsong Academy may be the place for you when school closes this term.

Auditions for the Birdsong Academy Vacation Music Camp have been scheduled for May 30 – 31, at 9am – 1pm.
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Web Posted - Sunday May 26, 2013
Trinidad Express Newspapers

Masekela fulfils promise to T&T
 

Hugh Masekela of South Africa, right, with Clive 'Zanda' Alexander, leftTrinidad and Tobago, W.I. - Internationally-acclaimed musician/ composer/arranger/ producer Hugh Masekela of South Africa is at present fulfilling a promise he made 10 years ago.

Masekela is currently in Trinidad supervising and recording an album with Petrotrin Siparia Deltones. A collaboration which was discussed in 2003 when he came here for the San Fernando Jazz Festival.
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Web Posted - Saturday May 25, 2013
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Web Posted - Saturday May 25, 2013
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Clive Bradley!!
A Critical Music Review
by Frankie McIntosh

 Clive Bradley - Pantonic Steel orchestra
 

Global - He was simply the world's greatest steelpan music arranger. Moreover, he was the one the titans of pan bowed to. This was his stage, his arena, his moment. This was his time. Panorama was "Bradley Time." Master arranger Clive Bradley, more so than any other, shaped and elevated the music and theatre of the panorama as we know it.

We revisit a musical examination of some of the Master's works by one of the most respected and gifted music talents out of the Caribbean. Frankie McIntosh provides us with an intellectual, as well as a critical and culturally perceptive interpretation of these selected panorama music works from the arranger.

In a special music extraordinaire, take a musical look at one of the recordings.
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Web Posted - Saturday May 25, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Steelband welcome for Biden
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Airforce Two, bearing US vice-president Joe Biden and his 150-member delegation, will touch down at Piarco Airport’s south terminal at 4 pm on Monday. At a media conference yesterday, Government Information Services Ltd officials said the contingent will include grandchildren of Biden and his wife, Jill, as well as two US media officials. The US vice-president is visiting T&T over Monday and Tuesday to hold discussions on security and other issues.

....Biden and his delegation will be met by Persad-Bissessar and other officials at the airport, where he will also receive a T&T honour guard salute and steelband welcome.
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Web Posted - Friday May 24, 2013
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Panorama Launch Sunday
 

St. Vincent & the Grenadines, W.I. - The governing body for steel bands in St.Vincent and the Grenadines, the Youlou pan Movement, YPM will this Sunday launch the 2013 edition of Panorama at Heritage Square. Four bands in Starlift, Euphonium, Elite and Symphonix will participate in the launch and patrons can expect the sweet sound of steel to arouse the feeling of moving some part of their body.

Panorama Launch is a creation of the YPM under the leadership of Warren ‘Boomie’ Knights and he says he is anticipating a larger crowd in attendance, when compared to last year’s attendance.
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Web Posted - Friday May 24, 2013
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Just Listen!! - No Wuk for Carnival - Master Arranger Robert Greenidge  - Moods Pan Groove - New York

Moods Pan Groove

New York  - The year is 1994 and Robert Greenidge is not taking any prisoners. Moods Pan Groove has come out to kill for NYC Panorama.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 23, 2013
Telegraph Media Group

Billy Ocean’s Traveling Life
 

Billy OceanGlobal - I used to go to a place in New York called SOB’s, which is a South American samba club, and they would pass around instruments for the audience to play. I’d take a tambourine and maracas – something I knew I could excel on, basically. It was an improvised thing, with everybody contributing enthusiastically and you’d go away feeling really good. I also like going to the Notting Hill Carnival. When I’m there I enjoy partaking, playing steel pan. You really get involved spiritually.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 23, 2013
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Web Posted - Thursday May 23, 2013
Charleston City Paper

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra to play Pour House June 4

Head to the islands without buying a plane ticket
 

South Carolina - Jonathan Scales started playing the steel pan at college when his friends convinced him to join the Appalachian State steel band. Fortunately for everyone else, it was love at first ping.

Since then, the steel pan player and the leader of the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra has won over the jam band world with his brand of smooth tropical jazz. Scales and company have also gotten the chance to play with Béla Fleck & the Flecktones’ Victor Wooten and Howard Levy. Come on, we know you’re jealous.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 23, 2013
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Just Listen!! - Ben Lion - Master Arranger Clive Bradley - Pantonic Steel Orchestra - New York

Ben Lion - Clive Bradley - Pantonic Steel orchestra
 

New York  - The late great Master Arranger Clive Bradley leaves no doubt as to why he was one of the best of all time.
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Web Posted - Wednesday May 22, 2013
The Daily News Online

B-B students drum up lesson on Caribbean rhythms

B-B students drum up lesson on Caribbean rhythms
 

Bergen - NY, USA - Trinidad and Tobago may be a long way from Byron-Bergen, but the sounds of the islands were heard in the halls of Byron-Bergen Elementary School recently. Eighty-nine fifth-graders learned the history of steel drum music and even got lessons on how to play thanks to a grant administrated by the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council.

Musician Ted Canning taught students about the origins of the steel drum dating back to the first half of the twentieth century. As part of the lessons, Canning explained the evolution of music in Trinidad and Tobago under British colonial rule. The students learned how the music grew out of a fusion of West African, French, English, and East Indian influences.
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Web Posted - Wednesday May 22, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Greenidge injects Pan into Differentology

Robbie Greenidge puts his special twist on the Bunji Garlin hit Differentology at Caribbean Night.
 

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - Robert Greenidge took Caribbean Night to another level last Thursday night. Initiated over two decades ago at Upper Level Club in West Mall, the weekly Thursday night special is being reprised at Woodbrook’s popular De Nu Pub, featuring Pelham Goddard and Roots, with handpicked guest artistes.

Guesting with Roots, Greenidge turned the venue inside out playing four of his original selections, including Paradise Gardens. However, it was the aggregation's interpretation of Differentology that really had the crowd waking up and setting the place alight. Embellishing the Bunji Garlin hit single with horns, with soloing by saxophonist Malcolm Boyce and trumpeter Clyde Mitchell, and Greenidge on pan, Differentology was presented, and welcomed, with new gusto and relish. This cover is crying out for entry to the studio, to add to the song’s already impressive ratings and just released video.
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Web Posted - Wednesday May 22, 2013
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Just Listen!! - Urame - (old song from Ogasawara Islands) Panorama Steel Orchestra - Japan
 

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Japan - "Urame" (old song from Ogasawara Islands)
Panorama Steel Orchestra essential set
2010/11/07 @新世界 Shinsekai (Tokyo, Japan)
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Web Posted - Tuesday May 21, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Young pan whiz cops award

Ishmael Williams, student of St Margaret’s Boys’ AC, receives his award as Most Outstanding Student in the Introductory Pan Construction Course 2013 from Ronda Francis, manager, Corporate Responsibility, bpTT. Sharing in the moment are, left, Barry Yeates, manager of Pan Development Unlimited, and Musa Mohammed, tutor.
 

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - "At age 11, Ishmael Williams is one of the youngest participants to be selected as Most Outstanding Student in the annual series of pan construction and tuning courses offered by Pan Development Unlimited (PDU) since the training workshops started some four decades ago.

An elated Williams, a student of St Margaret’s Boys’ AC School in Belmont, received his award for emerging as the top student in the first cycle of the 2013 Introductory Pan Construction Course.

....“I am really happy to top the class in the pan construction course. This will help me to understand the instrument better. I want to do more advanced training since I am already thinking of making a career in this field,” said Williams, who plays the double-second pan with multiple Junior Panorama champions, St Margaret Boys AC.
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Web Posted - Tuesday May 21, 2013
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Happy Birthday to the Legendary Neville Jules

Neville Jules
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - There are a collective few who bear the distinction of being universally recognized as members of that unique, and special fraternity we at When Steel Talks refer to as Giants and Titans of “Pan and the Steelpan Movement.” Through their intellect, talents, genius, innovativeness, sacrifices, foresight and leadership they forged a path to greatness for a marvelous invention known as ‘Pan’ - all the while showcasing the genius and indomitable spirit of man.
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Web Posted - Saturday May 18, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Moyenne answers the call to make beautiful music
 

Chantal Edselle and the members of her band Moyenne will perform music from their new album Imbizo Moyenne.Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - Music lovers across T&T can look forward to May 25, for the launch of Imbizo Moyenne, the new album from Moyenne, touted as one of the best Caribbean jazz bands to come along in many years.

The band, led by Chantal Esdelle, will be giving a concert performance of music from the album at the Little Carib Theatre on the corner of Roberts Street and White Street, Woodbrook.

....The band was formed in 1998 after Esdelle returned to Trinidad from attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston where she studied jazz composition.

....The journey began with Glenford “Kevin” Sobers, an accomplished panman, arranger for the steelband New Age Trendsetters and pan ramajay solo winner.

....Next came Donald “Junior” Noel, percussionist and master drummer of the Northwest Laventille Cultural Movement. In 2003, Moyenne’s resident bassist Douglas Redon, long-time and recognised member of Phase II Pan Groove and resident arranger for Woodbrook Modernaires, joined the group followed by Darren Sheppard, leader of the band Fusion and the Darren Sheppard Project, who has been the drummer since 2009.
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Web Posted - Saturday May 18, 2013
When Steel Talks

Historical Photo!! - Carnival Trinidad and Tobago:1969 - “Catelli Trinidad All Stars”

Trinidad All Stars - Carnival 1969
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This picture was taken at Trinidad and Tobago's 1969 Carnival. Catelli Trinidad All Stars presents Modern Africa for carnival 1969..

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Web Posted - Thursday May 16, 2013
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Historical Photo!! - Carnival Trinidad and Tobago:1969 - “Fun and Laughter”

Carnival 1969
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This picture was taken at Trinidad and Tobago's 1969 Carnival. The mas was called "Fun and Laughter".

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Web Posted - Tuesday May 14, 2013
When Steel Talks

Just Listen!! - Billy Ocean and Ebony Steelband:1994 - Caribbean Queen

Billy Ocean and Ebony Steelband:1994 - Caribbean Queen
 

Global - The great Billy Ocean performs his monster hit  Caribbean Queen with Ebony Steelband.
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Web Posted - Monday May 13, 2013
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Steel Pan Fest and Culture Night for 2013 Festival

PAN!
 

Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. - "The devil's music!"

That was the European, Christian take on the pagan, pulsating, infectious beat of the African drum. Its primal edge scared the living daylights out of them. It unleashed sensuality, social revolt and spirituality of another kind, something forgotten, primordial, Mother Earthly and definitely anathema to colonial values.

"Surrendering to this music is essentially a communion." -- Thierry Teston, director, PAN! A Modern Odyssey

The shock to the system Europeans experienced when they heard this lower chakra vibration is not difficult to comprehend. Their primal connection to the drum had been violently severed more than a thousand years ago, when their ancestors were colonized by a Roman Empire that would soon become a Christian empire. The iron-fisted Church banned all displays of sensual, passionate self-expression tied to their pagan religious rites. Their Celtic, Norse, Gothic drums had long faded into the background, becoming one uniform, metronomic, marching beat for the new military empire. String and wind instruments took the spotlight. It was beautiful music that stirred the soul, but only from the waist up. As custodians of the imperial status quo, they would resist the influence of the African drum (among other indigenous tribal rhythms) in every territory they claimed for crown and church.

The demonization of "negro" music in the Americas would extend to blues, jazz, samba, calypso and rock 'n' roll, which met a wall of censorship and condemnation. From the censoring of Elvis' illicit hips on Ed Sullivan, to the mounting fear as white children began doing the Watusi and eventually wanting to integrate the concert halls and dance floors, to the fear of hip-hop's revolutionary edge, many commercially successful movies and documentaries hearken or hint at the establishment's fight against Afro-influenced music.
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Web Posted - Monday May 13, 2013
When Steel Talks

And “We Beat” Goes On - longstanding Steelband & Cultural Celebration back on track

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The St. James Community Improvement Committee (St. James CIC) is happy to inform the public that, thanks to Trinidad & Tobago’s Ministry of Tourism, WeBeat - St. James Live, scheduled to run from June 7th through 15th 2013 at the St. James Park and Amphitheatre is back on track.

The decision was taken after the Minister of Tourism, The Honorable Stephen Cadiz, M.P. became aware of the cancellation of the event. The Minister, acknowledging the importance of WeBeat to the National Tourism thrust and its role in fostering same, promptly invited the St. James CIC to a meeting at the St. James Amphitheatre.
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Web Posted - Monday May 13, 2013
BVI-Hotpress

Steel Pan Fest and Culture Night for 2013 Festival
 

Steelpan in the British Virgin Islands (BVI)British Virgin Islands - Although plans are still in the early stages for the 2013 Emancipation festival, both the Chairman of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee, Marvin Blyden and Director of Culture, Luce Hodge-Smith confirmed that culture night and steel pan fest will be repeated for 2013.

Blyden and Hodge-Smith disclosed the inclusion of the two events at a press conference that was held on April 30 to announce the winners of the 2013 theme and slogan competition.

Both steel pan fest and culture night were unsuccessful last year, but judging from crowd turnout, both events seemed to have public appeal. On the 2012 roster, the ‘Steel Pan Fest’ was scheduled for July 29 and was supposed to feature local and regional steel bands. The “Culture night” was slated for August 1, and according to the schedule the night was to feature troupe performances, and the King and Queen of the Band competition.
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Web Posted - Sunday May 12, 2013
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The Journey has Begun - Kendall Williams: Master of Music - Steelpan: Instrument of Choice

Panist, composer and arranger Kendall Williams presents his NYU recital - Music Theory & Composition
 

Kendall Williams conducts CrossFire Steel Orchestra during his graduate recital at NYUNew York, USA - Quiet, unassuming and intense – you won’t even know he’s in the room. But don’t be fooled by his quiet demeanor. Kendall Williams is immensely talented, witty, humorous but focused. Moreover, he has a voice and has charted an unexplored music path for the steelpan music family of instruments. Those who know him of course, already knew this. And after last weekend’s past recital for his degree of Master of Music, many, many more will now know it too.
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Web Posted - Sunday May 12, 2013
When Steel Talks

To Mothers all over the world

 Happy Mother's Day

Global - Happy Mother’s Day to all the Steelpan & Steelband Music Moms.
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Web Posted - Saturday May 11, 2013
When Steel Talks

Just Listen!! - NYU Steel - 
Ben Lion - 2013

NYU Steel - Ben Lion - 2013
 

Global - NYU (New York University) Steel performs the classic “Ben Lion” at their annual Spring Concert.

There are very few if any musical institutions that boast a diverse and varied repertoire such as NYU Steel - from the works of Philip Glass to those of calypso legend The Roaring Lion.
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Web Posted - Saturday May 11, 2013
When Steel Talks

Steelband Fave Series “We Beat” Cancelled

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The St. James Community Improvement Committee (St. James CIC) regretfully announces that after an uninterrupted run of twelve years, from 2001 to 2012, the 2013 edition of WeBeat - St. James Live, originally scheduled to run from June 7th through 15th 2013, has been cancelled.

The Committee has been forced into making this decision as a result of the lack of financial support by both levels of government, central and municipal, and the private sector, including those from the St. James area, most of who benefitted directly from these events.
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Web Posted - Friday May 10, 2013
CompassCayman.com

Cayman Prep and High win NCF steel pan competition

Cayman Prep junior band in action at a competition featuring excellent performances all-round
 

Grand Cayman - The National Children’s Festival of the Arts took a tuneful turn on 29 April with a special steel pan competition.

The Mary Miller Hall in Red Bay hosted the contest, which was of a high standard.

Cayman Prep and High School eventually took away all the major honours.

The junior band beat John Gray to take the gold and the trophy and the senior band beat John Gray, Grace Christian, UCCI, Cayman School for Pan and St. Ignatius to take the gold and the top trophy. Adam Stoner (senior category) and Britney Ferguson (junior) won their solos, as well taking home both the gold and the trophy for Cayman School for Pan. Britney beat Grace Christian, Clifton Hunter, Red Bay Primary, Prospect Primary and Cayman Academy. Adam defeated Grace Christian.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 9, 2013
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Eduardo “Lalo” Tellez speaks on Xalapa Steel Band of Mexico

Pan comes to Mexico in a big way

Steelpan in Mexico
 

Global - Eduardo “Lalo” Tellez is a music Bachelor and a Percussion Professor in the Superior Institute of Music in Veracruz, Mexico.  He first encountered the steelpan instrument four years ago in 2009, and began to educate himself in the art of playing the instrument.  In January 2012 Téllez founded a small steel orchestra - the first one in Mexico.  The orchestra is called “Xalapa Steel Band,” so named because it is the city where Téllez and the other musicians live in Mexico.

Xalapa Steel Band is growing quickly, and will be attending the 2014 National Panorama in Trinidad & Tobago, to play with Valley Harps Steel Orchestra.  Presently, their repertoire includes music works from Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, Edwin Pouchet and Ray Holman, along with traditional music from Caribbean countries, as well as Eduardo Téllez’s own compositions. Most of Xalapa’s steelpan musicians are percussion students in the University of Veracruz.
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Web Posted - Tuesday May 7, 2013
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Community Center’s Low-Cost Music Program Breaking Down Cultural Walls
 

Playing steelpan in the music program at the Alfred E. Smith public houses in NYCNew York, USA - A shabby community center on the first floor of one of the 12 buildings that make up the vast Gov. Alfred E. Smith public houses is where social workers and teachers are hoping music can break down cultural barriers.

.....But the music school -- run by Hamilton Madison House a progressive non-profit -- which offers piano, violin, guitar and even steel pan lessons for a reduced fee, is a well-kept secret, patronized almost entirely by Asian families, not the black and Latino kids who also live in the housing project.

....Still, of the almost 4,300 residents in the Smith houses, almost 800 are black, and about 1,600 are Latino. To attract those residents, the House’s executive director Mark Handelman suggested starting a steel pan class, hoping that the music of Trinidad and Tobago would attract different students than piano and violin. This class is only $20 for the entire year.

“I don’t think he thought that it would turn out to be an Asian steel band group,” Goodman said, laughing. “I think his thought was that we’d get a bunch of teenagers off the street. But those aren’t the kids that decided to come.”
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Web Posted - Tuesday May 7, 2013
Coventry Telegraph

Thousands of people enjoy sunny Earlsdon Festival

Dayspring Steel Band at Earlsdon Festival
 

Coventry, England, UK - Glorious sunshine brought an estimated 10,000 people out for the final day of Earlsdon Festival.

The 20th annual event saw High Street closed off yesterday and filled with stalls and performances in the culmination of 11 days of events.

Dayspring Steel Band performed outside Earlsdon Methodist Church while Coventry Morris Dancers and children’s entertainers put on shows next to the Royal Oak pub.

....Kerry Burgess, of Green Lane, Finham, was at the festival watching Dayspring Steel Band with her one-year-old daughter Freya Kirkman.
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Web Posted - Tuesday May 7, 2013
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Just Listen!! - Casablanca Steel Orchestra -  A Theme For Steel - 1952

 Casablanca 1952

Global - A Theme For Steel - by The Casablanca Steel Orchestra ℗1952 Sa Gomes Music Ltd. Composer: Arthur DeCoteau, Ormond Haynes Label: Sagomes.
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Web Posted - Monday May 6, 2013
Richland Chronicle

Carnival of Steel a big success

Steelpan performers at the 2013 Carnival of Steel festivalTexas, USA - This year, Richland's "Carnival of Steel," the annual steel drum festival of North Texas held on campus April 20, was "extremely successful," according to Derrick Logozzo, director of instrumental music, who heads the outdoor music event every year.

"Basically, we upped our attendance a lot this year," Logozzo said. "We had over 1,000 people both day and night."

....Logozzo said that six steel bands from mid-state participated in the festival. The list included bands from Austin and Laredo and four from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Web Posted - Sunday May 5, 2013
When Steel Talks

Just Listen!! - Len "Boogsie" Sharpe - Mangrove -  Ben Lion
 Mangrove 2002

Global - The ace at work. The year is 2002 and the song is “Ben Lion.” A Len "Boogsie" Sharpe arrangement...
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Web Posted - Sunday May 5, 2013
The Trinidad Guardian

Pan film to promote T&T

Trinidad All Stars play on the streets of Port-of-Spain during Carnival
 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - A major feature film on the steelpan is finally in the works and the local team behind it promises that the quality of the production will serve as the ideal marketing mechanism for the universal advancement of the instrument, while giving T&T an easily recognisable brand. Pan! A Modern Odyssey, is the title given to the project conceptualised by music producer and publisher Jean Michel Gilbert and Dr Kim Johnson, a veteran journalist and author, under the banner of the Caribbean Music Group.

Gilbert, the executive producer on the project, will double as co-producer alongside acclaimed french cinematic expert Barthélémy Fougea and Johnson. Johnson, the historical consultant on the film, is also the man behind the script which has been re-written no less than 15 times. A French company called WINDS will serve as the international co-producer.
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Web Posted - Friday May 3, 2013
When Steel Talks

NYU Steel Comes Full Circle - The Dream, the Vision, the Reality

When Things Come Together - NYU Steel, A Success Story

NYU Steel perform during their 2013 Spring concert
 

Global - He still waves to you from afar, still seeks you out and greets you with a warm smile and sincere handshake. And still remains quietly in the background supporting and admiring his creation and the considerable progress of the young people like a proud parent. Yes, Professor Jonathan Haas, department chairman at the prestigious Percussion Studies program at NYU Steinhardt has a lot to be proud of. NYU Steel is a musical reality that has indeed come full circle.
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Web Posted - Thursday May 2, 2013
When Steel Talks

Just Listen!! - Robert Greenidge - Moods Pan Groove -  Ben Lion
 Moods Pan Groove 2002
 

Global - The boss at work. The year is 2002 and the song is “Ben Lion.” A Robert Greenidge arrangement...
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Web Posted - Wednesday May 1, 2013
LucianCarnival.com

Pantime Triumphant in Junior Steelband 2013

PanTime Junior Steel Orchestra of St. Lucia during their 2013 winning performance at the annual national junior panorama
 

St. Lucia, W.I. - Pantime Steel Orchestra is the 2013 Junior Steelband Champion. The 35 member youth band, led by Cecil Tortee Philgence captured the top prize at the National Junior Panorama Competition held Sunday at the National Cultural Centre Grounds.

Pantime outplayed six other hopefuls from around the island; second place went to the Diamond Steel; and third place to a very enthusiastic and well-supported Laborie Steel Orchestra. The Junior Pan competition attracted not only several friends and family members of the participants but also a decent number of loyal pan lovers.
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Complete RESULTS for the Trinidad & Tobago 2013 Panorama

  Panorama 2013
 

Global - Full results for the Trinidad and Tobago 2013 Panorama are in. Steel Orchestras competed in the medium and large categories at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad last evening.  Both 2012 defending champions were dethroned.
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Champion Panorama Tunes of Trinidad and Tobago

Panorama Champion TunesGlobal - A critical component to winning any panorama competition is the song the orchestras choose to use as the basis of their panorama arrangements. Over the years these songs have inspired classic panorama arrangements. When Steel Talks invites you to take a look at and listen to, these famed tunes which have played more than just a cursory part in the history of Pan, and the lives of the players and fans.
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Some of the most important, controversial, thought-provoking and enlightening discussions on the steelpan instrument, music and culture worldwide, have taken place over the years on the When Steel Talks “Message board.”  Considered by many to be a lightening-rod for change in the steelpan music community, the WST message board  has provided a means unlike any for steelpan enthusiasts to share information and communicate ideas.

Windows MSN Groups has informed us that they are shutting down their groups service as of February 21, 2009.  You can now find the When Steel Talks Group at whensteeltalks.ning.com/forum 
We look forward to you joining us.

 

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