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 - 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
Web Posted - Monday
October 24, 2022
When Steel Talks
Happy Birthday to ace panist Lincoln Phillip
New York, USA - When Steel
Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to panist Lincoln
Phillip. A steelpan music veteran, an ace in his craft, Lincoln
has performed with New York’s Metro, Pantonic and most recently
D’Radoes steel orchestras.
see
pictures
Web Posted - Friday
October 21, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Carnival, Panorama launches on November 5, 6
2020 Panorama champs
-
Desperadoes playing ‘More Sokah’ at the Queen’s Park
Savannah.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival is scheduled to be launched on
November 5 at the Queen’s Park Savannah and, quickly on the
heels of that,
Pan Trinbago is expected to launch Panorama 2023 on November 6 at Massy
Trinidad All Stars pan theatre, Duke Street, Port of Spain.
The launch will take place from 5.30 pm on that day.
....In a phone interview, Pan Trinbago’s president
Beverley Ramsey-Moore
said the body was very excited going into the 60th anniversary of
Panorama.
see more
Web Posted - Sunday
October 16, 2022
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
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 - Saturday
October 15, 2022
When Steel Talks
Antigua and Barbuda 2022 Schools Junior Panorama - Steelband Music Competition
Bands - Tunes - Arrangers
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
The country’s Schools’ Panorama Competition is part of the 41st
Independence schedule of events and will take place 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 schools
Web Posted - Tuesday
October 11, 2022
Jamaicans.com
Photo Highlights: Melodic and Rhythmic Pulses of the Steel
Pan Reverberated, Filled the Air at 2022 Miami Carnival’s
Panorama
Miami Carnival’s Panorama 2022
Miami, Florida, USA - Annually, the much-heralded Miami Carnival attracts people in the upteen thousands revel and celebrate Caribbean culture and heritage in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale environs. And as usual, one of the biggest attractions of this marvelous yearly event is the Panorama steel pan competition. The Panorama event takes place on Friday at Miami Carnival, and this year the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill, Florida was the venue where the six competing bands vied for supremacy.
see more
Web Posted - Tuesday
October 11, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Scotiabank Foundation, Rotary Club support Beetham steelband with $100k
Practise makes perfect: Young members of the Beetham Vibrations
Steel Orchestra go through their paces on the pans during a recent
practise session.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The Scotiabank Foundation recently partnered with the Rotary
Club of Central Port of Spain to support the Beetham Vibrations
Steel Orchestra (BVSO), which was conceptualised by that Rotary
Club to create a sustainable model for hope, unity, and
advancement of the youth in Beetham Gardens.
This new creative endeavour is intended to instil a sense of discipline,
self-esteem and belonging in the youths of the community.
....The bank’s donation of $100,000 will enable the purchase of instruments,
as well as the tutoring of the players.
....The members are currently practising under the stewardship of
Khari
Codrington of
the Codrington Family Institute and his father
Cary.
see more
Web Posted - Tuesday
October 11, 2022
When Steel Talks
Veteran star actor and panist Austin Stoker has passed
Austin Stoker aka Alphonso Marshall
California, USA - Austin
Stoker aka Alphonso Marshall, a veteran actor and panist passed
away on his 92nd birthday on Friday October 7, 2022.
Born in Trinidad in 1930, Marshall died at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles from renal failure according to reports.
Before he was more notably known for his acting career, with roles in
films such as 1973’s “Battle for the Planet of the Apes,” John Carpenter’s
“Assault on Precinct 13” and “Sheba, Baby” with Pam Grier in 1975 - Marshall
was one of three steelpan players in a musical on Broadway in 1954.
see more
Web Posted - Monday
October 10, 2022
Antigua Observer
Preparations underway for Schools Panorama competition
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
Students from nine schools — five secondary and four primary —
are slated to compete in the 2022 Schools Panorama competition
to be held on October 31 at the Antigua Recreation Grounds (ARG).
The competition, like other national activities, is returning after a
two-year hiatus due to the
COVID-19
pandemic.
....Representatives of two schools which have won the competition in
previous years shared their optimism during Sunday’s Session in Steel with
Sam Roberts.
Arielle Jeremiah, who is a first-time arranger for the Antigua Girls’ High
School (AGHS), explained that it has been a bit challenging for her, but a
challenge she welcomes.
see more
Web Posted - Monday
October 10, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Pan’s labyrinth
Ralph James at
his mini-pan workshop in St Augustine
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
My name is Ralph James and I do everything to do with
pan.
I remember the days when pan didn’t have respect. Is
there I come from.
....Since I small, these pans around me. Pan was a
serious, serious thing since in the earlies.
From the first few weeks I leave school, about 13 going in
14, I used to be outside just liming but my brother put me to
learn in a big tyre company.
Just like the pan and them, tyre all over you!
Me and my friend went up. He is a big-time panman. He is a
overall, too. Glen Ward. They’s call him Sandopie from Tunapuna.
He’s a favourite.
see more
Web Posted - Monday
October 10, 2022
When Steel Talks - Reboot
‘Columbus Lie’ by the Mighty Shadow
Global - The late great
calypsonian “Shadow” shares the true history of Christopher Columbus via a
live performance in Canada, 1994.
See video
Web Posted -
Sunday October 9, 2022
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
SDG Amazing Race event in Saith Park... Trinidadians and
Venezuelans side by side
A Venezuelan
contestant performs for the judges during the
amateur steelpan showdown. Judges from left,
Laura Dowrich from Loop TT, Jewel Ali from IOM,
and EU Ambassador, His Excellency Peter
Cavendish.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Trinidadians and Venezuelans were side by side in Saith Park,
Chaguanas, on September 25 as they navigated a trivia questions
maze and an amateur steelpan showdown as part of the United
Nations (UN) in Trinidad and Tobago’s SDG Amazing Race.
The event was hosted by three UN agencies: the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Resident
Coordinator’s Office.
see more
Web Posted -
Friday October 7, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Starlift hosts Renaissance concert at NAPA
Dr Louis Nurse
and the Lynx will perform with Starlift
steelband on October 8 during the concert,
Renaissance: The Experience, at NAPA, Frederick
Street, Port of Spain.
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The Lord Kitchener Auditorium at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) will feature a symphony of ivory and steel on October 8 when Dr Louis Nurse and the Lynx, in collaboration with Proman
Starlift Steel
Orchestra, performs at Renaissance: The Experience concert.
“Our vision is to provide good music in an environment that lifts the performance of the pan and piano at a concert level,” Nurse, founder of Louis and the Lynx, said in a media release.
see more
Web Posted -
Friday October 7, 2022
When Steel Talks - Reboot
When a great idea meets a great idea - simply a charmed Pan experience
The birth of Carib Parlor Notes
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Let’s start with the end. The inaugural session of Carib Parlor Notes featuring performing artist and panist Garvin Blake was extremely successful. It was a groundbreaking event with vast historical, cultural, and artistic and intellectual significance. All who were present felt the love and warmth generated. Moreover they all knew they were part of something very special.
Now, fast-forward to the beginning.
As hostess and co-director Hazel Beckles Younglao said, “We want to share our pot of gold with you.” A pot of gold it was, and she and her husband, Terah, did indeed share—their home, and the energies vibrating throughout the abode on this evening in particular—with all those who were present.
see more, slideshow
Web Posted -
Thursday October 6, 2022
WSVN-TV
Japan’s Waiwai Steel Band to show off skills at Miami Carnival Panorama
Waiwai Steel Band
Miami, Florida, USA
- The rhythmic sounds of steel drums will fill the air at
Miami Carnival, and this year, a band a long way from the
Caribbean will be on hand to show their stuff.
This weekend’s Miami Carnival is about music, barely-there
costumes and having a great time.
But
Panorama is ready to “steel” the spotlight.
....Now, Waiwai Steel Band isn’t competing. They just flew from
Japan to show off their performance skills.
Kosei Oki: “I’m so excited to play there, and I’m excited to
show them, like, Japanese steel band style.”
....Kosei Oki: “We are doing different things than other bands.
We haven’t done Panorama stuff, ever, so I want them to know
what we are doing in Japan.”
see more
Web Posted -
Wednesday October 5, 2022
Bahamas Press
Steel Pan Workshop held for music teachers in Grand Bahama
Music teachers attend steelpan workshop –
Instructor for the one-day Steelpan workshop,
Nevin Roach (center) poses for a photo with
Grand Bahama music teachers who attended the
workshop, on Friday, October 30, 2022 in the
auditorium of Bishop Michael Eldon School. At
far left is Monique Leary, Ministry of Youth,
Sports and Culture, Cultural Affairs Officer.
Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas
- The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture is seeking to
revive the culture of steel-panning in The Bahamas by hopefully
reintroducing the creative art into the educational system.
Under the auspices of the Bahamas Ministry of Culture, with the
tutelage of
Nevin Roach, of Barbados, music teachers throughout
Grand Bahama were given a basic, yet in-depth, crash course on
steel-panning. The one-day workshop was held on Friday,
September 30, 2022 in the auditorium of Bishop Michael Eldon
High, the school notorious in Grand Bahama for its Steel Pan
ensembles and experience.
“It is my intent to take them (music teachers) through every
aspect of steel-panning...,” Roach explained just before the
start of the workshop.
see more
Web Posted -
Tuesday October 4, 2022
The Daily Iowan
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra at Englert Theatre showcases
steel pan versatility
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra’s Maison Guidry
performs during a concert at the Englert Theatre
in Iowa City on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022
Iowa, USA -
On Sep. 30, the
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra performed at
the Englert Theatre, showcasing the versatility of the steel pan
instrument and crossing musical divides.
....The band played three songs without saying a word, but the
audience was enthralled by the music. The first song, “Scales,”
shifted the sound of the steel pan from classical piano to
smooth jazz.
....The Fourchestra also engaged with the audience. Scales kept
the relationship between the band and the concertgoers casual,
forging an intimate bond that allowed concertgoers to feel
comfortable...
see more
Web Posted -
Tuesday October 4, 2022
Reading Today
CultureMix Arts celebrates Black History Month as RASPO
turns 25
Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra performs
a striking set at Here Comes The Sun festival
Berkshire, England, UK - A
not-for-profit arts organisation is hosting events during
October, as Reading celebrates the contribution of black people
to the community through Black History Month.
Its events include the reggae open mic nights and workshops with
RASPO as Reading begins its month-long celebrations of diversity
in the community.
Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra is also celebrating 25
years of bringing steel percussion to Reading.
....It was named in honour of the Trinidad All Steel Percussion
Orchestra, which was the first steel band to perform live in the
UK at the Festival of Britain in 1951.
....Mary Genis, artistic director and founder of CultureMix Arts, said that people having access to a range of things to do is important, especially this month.
....The free children’s steel band workshops take place between 4.30-5.30 p.m. and over-18s workshops take place from 5.30-6.30 p.m. every Tuesday.
see more
Web Posted -
Monday October 3, 2022
Loop T&T News
NP supports local steelpan programme in schools
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Trinidad & Tobago National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited
(NP) said it will be supporting the
Pan in Schools Coordinating Council (PSCC) to host several
music Composition and Panorama Arrangement workshops across the
country.
In a statement, the company said this is part of the company’s
efforts to support the preservation of the country’s cultural
heritage and empowering the next generation of pan arrangers and
composers.
see more
Web Posted -
Sunday October 2, 2022
When Steel Talks
Remembering Janine Charles-Farray
Janine Charles-Farray
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - When Steel Talks extends our sincere condolence to the family
and friends of the multitalented Janine Charles-Farray.
We are
in a state of shock. It was only yesterday - literally - you communicated with
us.
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
Web Posted - February
2020
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
