Web Posted - Sunday
May
12, 2024
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Global - Happy Mother’s Day
to all the Steelpan & Steelband Music Moms, all over the world!
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Web Posted - Tuesday
May 7, 2024
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St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. - If you have the opportunity to be in Antigua, or are travelling within the Caribbean later this month, a phenomenal night of steelband music can be had for those lucky enough to make it.
Veteran music organization Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra
(HGSO)—the country’s reigning national Panorama champion—is
hosting its 2024 Panorama Launch entitled “This is Carnival” on
Saturday, May 25, 7:30 p.m. at the Villa Primary School in St.
John’s.
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Web Posted - Saturday
May 4, 2024
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Point Fortin, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
A live stream of Point Fortin’s 44th Borough Day -
featuring steel orchestras Renegades, Exodus, All Stars,
cultural performances, costumed participants, moko jumbies, and
more - in Trinidad on Saturday May 4, 2024.
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live stream
Web Posted - Wednesday May 1, 2024
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New York, New York, USA -
Musical performances on steel for the better part of ninety
minutes will be enjoyed by a live audience on May 3, 2024 at New
York University’s John A. Paulson Center. NYU Steel is under the
guidance of Josh Quillen and Dr. Kendall K. Williams. Tristan
Japsi has led Steel Sensation musically.
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more
Web Posted - Friday
April 26, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The South Central Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival Association hosts its 2024 Champions in Concert event on April 27 at SAPA [Southern Academy for the Performing Arts], San Fernando at 6 p.m.
Those due to perform include school-level performers namely
Golden
Hands Junior Steel Orchestra, Naparima Girls School choir, The Trebles,
and the Prescon choir comprising Presentation College and St Joseph's
Convent both in San Fernando, plus many individual vocalists.
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more
Web Posted - Friday
April 26, 2024
Clermont Report
Clermont, Florida, USA - Transform
yourself into the 11th annual Clermont Caribbean Jerk
Festival on Saturday, June 1, 2024, from 12 to 9 p.m. presented
by the Caribbean American Association of Lake County (CAALC).
The free family friendly cultural event at Clermont’s Waterfront
Park (330 3rd Street, Clermont, FL 34711) supports
the Lake Steel Orchestra and raises funds for scholarships given
to Lake County high school seniors.
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more
Web Posted -- Thursday
April 25, 2024
WIC News
The Culturama 50 will be held from July 25 to August 6 with preliminary activities beginning as early as July 6.
St. Kitts and Nevis, W.I. - The Nevis Tourism Authority is all set to launch the Nevis Culturama Festival 2024, aka Culturama 50, on Friday, April 26, with a mini parade through Charlestown at 5 p.m. The parade will be followed by a gathering at the Charlestown Waterfront at 6 p.m.
....The grand launch event will feature several live
performances by the Odisi Band, Small Axe Band, Sugar Hill
String Band, Honey Bees String Band, Rhythms of the Arts Dance
Ensemble, and DJ Zimba. There will also be various cultural
performances, a medley of Kaiso and Soca performances, and an
NCD Steel Orchestra.
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more
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Global
- PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is Panorama
Central! Complete information on the 2024 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!
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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).
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Celebrating Steelpan - Illustration by artist Nicholas Huggins
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.
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