Web Posted - Friday March 28, 2025
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United States Steel Band Association (USSA) - A New Beginning

Members of the USSA Executive Board

Brooklyn, New York, USA - The United States Steelband Association (USSA) held its first general meeting on Thursday February 13, 2025 with band representatives and interested parities present in-house. The venue was P.S. 161 in Brooklyn.

....It was the opportunity to meet some members of the newly-elected board.
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Web Posted - Monday March 17, 2025
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Prime Minister Young — Attorney, father of two and steelpan lover

Prime Minister Stuart Young with his parents Priscilla and Richard at the swearing-in ceremony at President’s House, St Ann’s, on Monday.

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - In less than 48 hours of being sworn in as the nation’s eighth Prime Minister, Stuart Young has reshuffled the Cabinet, announced several plans for the country, and shocked many by wasting no time in ringing the election bell.

. . . . The new Prime Minister said the steelpan was one of the things that he treasures.

His favourite steelband is Renegades Steel Orchestra, but he also loves Phase II Pan Groove.

In the documentary, Young added, “The steelband movement is an escape for me ... I love the whole atmosphere of pan. I love being in a panyard because it really is a safe place. It is where we are all equal. You really have a sense of equality. You see all types of people beating the pan, but you see the ability to go down on the track, the ability to mix with the pan movement, the ability to push the pan on stage, and to see your side perform on stage. To me, that is magic. That is one of the things now at this stage in my life that I hold on to and treasure.”
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Web Posted - Sunday March 2, 2025
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Panorama 2025 Results - Exodus Steel Orchestra and Arranger Terrance “BJ” Marcelle are Champions, Jubilant in 2025 - Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - They led all the way from the preliminaries, through the semi-finals and took home the championship title after final night competition. Exodus Steel Orchestra and arranger Terrance “BJ” Marcelle are champions in the large steel orchestra category of the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama. Saturday March 1 into March 2 will forever hold treasured memories for this musical collaboration which ended a title drought for one, and delivered the first for the other.
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Web Posted - Saturday March 1, 2025
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Live Stream - 2025 Panorama Finals - Large Steel Orchestras - Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Ten large steel orchestras are performing in the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago National Panorama finals.

The competitive performances can be experienced, live and as they unfold, via stream, from the venue of Carnival City, QPS (Queen’s Park Savannah), Port-of-Spain, Trinidad..
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2025 Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Panorama Info - Complete

Global - PanOnTheNet/ WhenSteelTalks is Panorama Central! Complete information on the 2025 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 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).
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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.
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