Web Posted -
Wednesday
November 30, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Pan professor appeals for chance to serve Trinidad and Tobago
Prof Liam Teague speaks at City Hall in San
Fernando on Wednesday morning after he received
the key to the city and citation award from
mayor Junia Regrello
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Pan virtuoso, composer, arranger, lecturer and university
professor
Liam Teague received the keys to the city of San
Fernando at Wednesday’s statutory meeting of the city
corporation.
The presentation of the key and a citation award brought to an
end the month-long celebration of the 34 years since city status
was conferred on San Fernando.
....Teague, a professor of music and director of steelpan studies at
Northern Illinois University, was born in San Fernando.
see more
Web Posted -
Wednesday November 30, 2022
Laker Media
Steel Drums to present benefit Christmas show Dec. 10
Virginia, USA - The Smith
Mountain Lake Toucan and Parrot Pan steel drum bands will
present a family Christmas concert from 3 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 10
at the Scruggs Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department in Moneta.
The show, which will feature Caribbean-style arrangements of
many holiday favorites, will benefit SVFRD and the continuing
Smith Mountain Lake Center effort to establish an education,
arts and events venue in the SML area, where the steel drum
bands hope to one day relocate their rehearsal space.
see more
Web Posted -
Tuesday
November 29, 2022
The Lawton Constitution
Cameron University Percussion Ensemble presents fall concert
Oklahoma, USA - The Cameron
University Department of Art, Music and Theatre Arts will
present the CU Percussion Ensemble in concert on Friday. The
concert starts at 7:30 p.m. in the University Theatre.
....The Cameron University Pan Express steel drum ensemble will
close the concert with “Oje Como Va,” “More Java,” “Yellow Bird”
and “Brazil.”
see more
Web Posted -
Sunday
November 27, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Semis cancelled, all 30 single pan bands move to finals
Edinburg 500 Steel Emsemble was the first single pan band to perform
for judges at the start of the single pan band
preliminaries for Panorama 2023, at its panyard
on Lapwing Crescent, Chaguanas, on Friday night
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
All 30 bands scheduled to take part in the National Panorama
Single Pan Semi-Finals will now move on to the finals on
December 7,
Pan Trinbago’s president
Beverley Ramsey-Moore said.
This is due to the adverse weather and riverine flood alert. The Met
Office upgraded the alerts from yellow to orange on Sunday.
In a release on Saturday, Pan Trinbago said because of the national
alerts by the Prime Minister about a weather emergency brought on by
continuous rainfall, its central executive took the decision then to
postpone to event.
see more
Web Posted - Saturday
November 26, 2022
When Steel Talks
2023 Single Pan Semi-finals postponed due to Adverse Weather
Alert - NOW CANCELLED
Competition rescheduled for November 27
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The Single Pan Semi-finals for the 2023 Trinidad & Tobago
National Panorama season was postponed due to inclement weather
and the adverse weather alert put out by the country’s
meteorological service. Event organizer Pan Trinbago posted the
decision on their Facebook and website platforms on the morning
of Saturday November 26, the original date of the competition,
as pictures of floods, overflowing rivers and landsides appeared
on social media.
see more
Web Posted - Wednesday
November 23, 2022
When Steel Talks
Single Pan Bands - Order of Appearance - Semi-finals - 2023
Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama
Curepe Polyphonics is first up
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The Order of Appearance of the thirty semi-finalists in the
Single Pan category of the annual National Panorama organized by
Pan Trinbago, is now set, after the draw for playing positions
was held on Wednesday November 23. The second phase of
competition takes place at the Arima Velodrome in Arima, east
Trinidad on Saturday November 26, 2022 beginning 4.00 p.m.
see more
Web Posted - Monday
November 21, 2022
When Steel Talks
Single Pan Bands - Complete 2023 Preliminaries Results -
Trinidad and Tobago Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The 2023 Single Pan preliminaries unfolded from November 11
through 19, 2022. Forty-seven bands faced the judges on various
nights in their respective zones: South/Central, Northern,
Tobago and Eastern regions.
....San Juan East Side Symphony and Marsicans Steel Orchestra
are defending Single Pan co-champions, and San Juan East Side is
in the lead going into the semi-finals, while Marsicans occupies
the fifth spot presently.
see
full results
Web Posted -
Saturday
November 19, 2022
When Steel Talks
Protect our sacred panyards
by Dara E Healy
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
THE PAIN caused by the recent murder in [the panyard of] Pamberi
Steel Orchestra has many threads.
These threads flow back in time, connecting decades, even
centuries of hurt and loss. Like the spiderweb design in the
pan, the threads hold stories and attitudes about an instrument
that is indigenous to our country, but which should be better
protected.
The web spins, winding around pan geniuses like Anthony
Williams, sitting quietly in his humility, not recognised enough
and without the financial security for someone who created
magical music on a biscuit tin.
See more
Web Posted -
Saturday
November 19, 2022
Boysets Fire
Kettle Drum Music – The Genre Of Music That Includes Music
Played On A Kettle Drum
What Genre Of Music Uses Steel Drums?
Global - ....It is unknown
whether calypsos will ever go away, but the steel pan (steel
drum) is an instrument that is adaptable.
Steel pan music has long been popular because of its warm, rich
tone and ability to bring people together. There is an
increasing demand for it all over the world, and its popularity
is growing. Steel pan music deserves to be more widely
recognized and appreciated. Steel pan music is a distinct and
fascinating form of music.
....Steelpan’s story doesn’t end there, despite what you might
think. It has been embraced by artists from all over the world,
including South Africa and the United States.
see more
Web Posted -
Friday
November 18, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Tobago Pan-Thers, Digicel open homework centre
Tobago West MP Shamfa Cudjoe, left, and Digicel
Foundation director Georgina Peterkin, right,
look on as a student logs into one of the
computers at the new homework centre in Golden
Lane
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Tobago Pan-Thers Steel Orchestra and the Digicel Foundation
have collaborated to open a new homework centre and after-school
programme in Golden Lane.
The initiative was launched on Wednesday at the Tobago Pan-Thers panyard
in Seaview Trace, Golden Lane.
Through this partnership, Tobago Pan-Thers received funding to develop
the project. Renovations were done to bring the space up to standard;
computers, printers and other equipment were acquired as well as internet
access; and the space was generally outfitted to make it fully functional.
see more
Web Posted -
Friday
November 18, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Newtown Playboys wow fans at single pan prelims
Newtown Playboys plays KMC’s First Experience
during the National Panorama Single Pan
Steelbands Prelims, at their Tragarete Road
panyard on November 14
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
On the fourth night of the National Panorama single pan
steelbands prelims, the Newtown Playboys, under the direction of
arranger
Duvone Stewart, showed they are gunning for the champion
title.
The San Juan East Side Symphony and Marsicans Steel Orchestra
are
joint title-holders of the competition, which was last held
in 2019.
....Judging in the Northern Region was not without drama, with
an arranger and frontline players parting ways with a band,
which was left without the required number of players to qualify
for judging.
see more
Web Posted - Wednesday
November 16, 2022
When Steel Talks
Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, EASTERN Region -
Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2023
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Twenty bands in the Eastern region of Pan Trinbago’s annual
National Panorama Single Pan Preliminaries close out this phase
of competition when being judged in their respective panyards.
The events unfold over a three-night period.
see more
Web Posted - Wednesday
November 16, 2022
When Steel Talks
Pamberi Steel Orchestra On Shooting Incident In The Panyard
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
“After forty-two (42) uninterrupted years of positivity and
community empowerment, the Pamberi Panyard’s ‘safe space’ was
violated by a shooting incident yesterday [November 15, 2022]
afternoon at approximately 4.30 p.m. In the incident, one young
man unfortunately lost his life and two others were injured.
While, neither the incident, nor the persons involved, were
linked to the operations of Pamberi Steel Orchestra, the fact
that it occurred in our panyard space strikes at the core of our
existence and projection.
see more
Web Posted - Tuesday
November 15, 2022
When Steel Talks
Single Pan Bands - Preliminaries, TOBAGO Region -
Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2023
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Single Pan bands in Tobago perform for judges in their panyards
for preliminaries. Metro Stars Steel Orchestra and
Natural Mystic are the two bands in competition on Wednesday, November 16, 2022.
see more
Web Posted - Sunday
November 13, 2022
When Steel Talks
Duvone Stewart Returns to Single Pan Competition, weighs in
on the category
by Sharmain Baboolal
Duvone Stewart (center) with Newtown
Playboys
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The buzz is at the Newtown Playboys panyard where arranger
Duvone Stewart shocked the local steelpan fraternity with his
return to the competitive single pan arena. With 11 Single Pan
Panorama titles under his belt, he dropped off their radar in
2015.
For the post-pandemic Panorama, the 47-year-old champion of both
the Medium and Large band categories is not here for bragging
rights, at all.
Yes, it is to earn a living. But, also to bring new ideas to the
music in what is really a master class for young arrangers.
So it is not strange to see players, arrangers and sometimes
bandleaders, standing on the pavement at 64 Tragarete Road, not
just listening to the depth and richness he has brought back to
the music for the single pan bands that were previously “Pan
around the neck.”
see more
When Steel Talks
Trinidad and Tobago 2023 Panorama and Carnival
Schedule of Events
Global
- Trinidad and Tobago Panorama and Carnival
Schedule of Events. Info on the activities
for the 2023 steelband music season: dates, times,
judging schedules, preliminaries, semi-finals and
finals competitions, event venues, and more.
see more
When Steel Talks
2023 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete
Global
- PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is Panorama
Central! Complete information on the 2023 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
Web Posted - Friday
November 11, 2022
The Lafayette
Student Artist Spotlight: Damoi Morgan ’25 adds melody to
campus with steel drum
Damoi Morgan ’25 views music as a way to give the campus color.
Pennsylvania, USA - It’s
possible you’ve never met Damoi Morgan ’25, but it’s likely that
you’ve heard his music passing through the Quad. To many
Lafayette students and faculty members, the melodies from
Morgan’s steel drums echoing across campus have become a
familiar and welcoming sound.
Morgan’s fondness for the steel drum first emerged when he was
in high school. Originally trained as a percussionist, he
started experimenting with the steel drum as a way to expand his
musical horizons beyond beats and patterns and into the world of
notes and tones.
[Damoi has also performed with New York’s
Pan Evolution Steel
Orchestra].
see more
Web Posted - Friday
November 11, 2022
When Steel Talks
The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra to play free concert at Fulkerson Recital Hall
Jonathan Scales
California, USA - The
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra will be playing a free concert
Monday, November 14th at 8:00 p.m., at the Fulkerson
Recital Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt [California State Polytechnic
University, Humboldt]. The performance is presented and
sponsored by the Humboldt Calypso Band and the Cal Poly Humboldt
Jazz Program. The group consists of Jonathan Scales on steelpan
with bassist E’Lon JD and drummer Maison Guidry.
The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra’s eponymous debut—fully orchestrated
with horns and strings—was released in 2013 by Ropeadope Records. The record
reached #6 on the iTunes Jazz charts.
see more
Web Posted - Friday
November 4, 2022
VTDigger
A multigenerational Vermont steelband plays for pollinator
protection
Honeybee Steelband plays music on Halloween in Montpelier on Monday
Montpelier, Vermont, USA - In
the middle of Montpelier’s State Street on Halloween, goblins,
witches and giraffes paused their pursuit of sugar-filled treats
to eye a buzzing yellow float.
Under the wooden structure, a swarm of eight musicians dressed
as bees played steelpans, accompanied by a ukulele and a
cowbell.
...Hardwick resident Emily Lanxner, the creator of Honeybee
Steelband, said she shifted the band’s focus in 2015 from purely
performance to activism in response to what she characterized as
alarming pesticide use in Vermont and its effects on pollinator
populations.
“I just thought, you know what, this is an issue that I could
focus on and really make a difference,” said Lanxner, 60.
“Because what I do with music could be a really good fit for
bringing people together on this issue.”
see more
Web Posted - Monday
October 31, 2022
The Northerner
Adult Beginning Steel Drum Band makes the joy of playing
music accessible to all
Instruments used by the NKU Music Preparatory Adult Beginning Steel
Drum Band
Kentucky, USA - An NKU
(Northern Kentucky University) alum who hadn’t consistently
played music since college. An adjunct faculty member of the
music department who teaches piano and wanted to learn a new
instrument. A man of Caribbean descent who yearned to connect
with his roots. These are a few of the people that make up the
NKU Music Preparatory Adult Beginning Steel Drum Band.
....The Adult Beginning Steel Drum Band is open to adults in the
community, regardless of their musical background. This is the
first time the class is a non-credit offering, but teacher Stan
Ginn has been teaching steel drums to enrolled NKU students for
credit since about 2010, he said.
see more
Web Posted - Monday
October 31, 2022
When Steel Talks
Antigua and Barbuda 2022 Schools Junior Panorama - Results:
Princess Margaret and Pigotts Primary School Steel Orchestras
are Champions
Princess Margaret Secondary School Steel Orchestra - Champions
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
....Pigotts Primary School Steel Orchestra bested its two fellow
competitors, while Princess Margaret Secondary School Steel
Orchestra triumphed in their category, dethroning title
defenders Antigua Girls’ High School (AGHS). In all, five at
secondary and three at primary levels reveled in the spotlight
at the venue of the Antigua Recreation Grounds on October 31,
2022, as do their counterparts at the National Panorama
Competition.
see more
Web Posted - Monday
October 31, 2022
When Steel Talks
Antigua and Barbuda 2022 Schools Junior Panorama - Live
Stream
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
This is the Live Stream of the country’s Schools’ Panorama
Competition at the Antigua
Recreation Grounds on October 31, 2022. Eight steel orchestras, five from secondary schools and
three
from the primary level will participate.
see
livestream
Web Posted - Monday
October 31, 2022
When Steel Talks
Meet Television, Film & Video Game Music Composer,
Orchestrator, Arranger, Actor, Performer, Educator and Panist -
Dike Samai - UpClose!
Global - ....When Steel Talks
has been following the career of Dike Samai for a number of
years now. His positivity, forward thinking and energy are
infectious, in addition to his undeniable talents and
accomplishments that make him an automatic triple-threat plus.
This multi-talented film, television & video game music
composer, orchestrator, arranger, actor, performer, educator and
panist from Trinidad and Tobago, is destined to reset the bar
and introduce new artistic standards for pan and film.
In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Dike speaks on his journey
and achievements through passion, hard work, and determination.
see interview
Web Posted - Friday
October 28, 2022
When Steel Talks
Destination Spanish Harlem - New York City Street Co-Named
for the Legendary Cicely Tyson
CASYM Steel Orchestra Performs
Members of CASYM Steel Orchestra’s stage side with artist J. Moses
Harper and her painting of Cicely Tyson, before the band performed
New York, USA - WST (When
Steel Talks) was there to join in the celebration and honoring
of the late great legendary Cicely Tyson, with the co-naming
(renaming) of the block on which she grew up, on East 101st
Street, to “Cicely Tyson Way.” After the part of the event
preceding the official unveiling, the wide-ranging entertainment
segment got underway.
Included, and representing her roots - the Caribbean aspect of
Cicely Tyson’s life - was CASYM Steel Orchestra which straight
up stole the show when it was their turn to shine. They dropped
a volley of hits and crowd-pleasers that had the attendees
calling for more.
see more
Web Posted -
Thursday October 27, 2022
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Minister welcomes return of North Stand
Minister of
Tourism, Culture and the Arts Randall Mitchell
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Randall Mitchell says
he supports the National
Carnival Commission’s (NCC) decision to
bring back the
North Stand at the Queen’s Park Savannah for
Carnival 2023.
The stand was closed in 2018 as it was deemed by the NCC as too
expensive to build. The stand had traditionally facilitated not
only
Pan Trinbago’s Panorama events but the Dimanche Gras show, King and Queen of
the Bands competition, Parade of the Bands and calypso tent
clashes during the Carnival season.
Mitchell noted that the NCC had indicated to him that the cost
of erecting the North Stand could be repaid through hosting one
pan event.
see more
When Steel Talks
Facebook got it wrong - Meta World and WST & SteelPan Are
Friends Again
Facebook “Likes” sends PanOnTheNet Apology - “We got it
wrong”
Metaverse - Facebook got it
wrong. About three years ago without warning or reason all WST
(When Steel Talks) steelpan-related accounts fell out of favor
with the social media giant Facebook now known as Meta and its
aligned consortiums (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). Because
WST has all of our material hosted on our own shared servers,
this ‘tag’ was not incurable or as problematic as it could have
been. However, it was annoying to have people seeking critical
steelpan music info diverted by Facebook AI (artificial
intelligence).
see more
Web Posted
When Steel Talks
Technology Giant “Google” Celebrates the steelpan instrument via Google
Doodle
Celebrating Steelpan - Illustration by artist Nicholas Huggins
Doodle of steelpan instrument ‘live’ on Google’s web site
Global - On Tuesday July 26, 2022 the
steelpan instrument of Trinidad and Tobago is featured and celebrated on the
site of technology giant “Google” via the famed Google ‘Doodle.’ The ‘Doodle’
is essentially an illustrative change made to the Google corporate logo “to
celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers,
and scientists” - and more. The doodle is then seen by users all around the
world who access Google’s homepage on that day, and is available thereafter
in the doodle archives.
....Trinidad and Tobago-based artist Nicholas Huggins is the creator of the
illustrative artwork featured in the doodle, while Etienne Charles is the composer
of the accompanying music performed by the legendary steelpan icon Len “Boogsie”
Sharpe.
see more
When Steel Talks
Complete Summary of Results of all Conventional Steel Orchestras - 2020
Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - At a glance
and on a single page, access the comprehensive summary of results for the Small,
Medium and Large conventional steel orchestras that participated in their respective
categories in the 2020 Panorama.
Follow the musical journey of respective bands through all three phases -
compare side-by-side preliminaries, semi-finals and finals through data on band
info, scores, tunes of choice and arrangers - on one page.
access full summary
