Web Posted - Wednesday
May 21, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra marks 90th anniversary with full day of
activities
Eleven-time
Panorama champion Trinidad All Stars Steel
Orchestra celebrates its 90th anniversary
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Hell Yard, Port of Spain, home of the iconic
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra, will be a buzz of
activities all day on May 21, in celebration of the band’s 90th
anniversary.
And even as the band marks such an historic milestone, the 11-time
Panorama champion is not ready to retire or fade into obscurity, but is
leading the pack as an innovator and trendsetter in the footsteps of its
forefathers, especially
Neville Jules, whose experimental approach with the national instrument
is unrivalled.
read more
Web Posted - Tuesday
May 20, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Culture minister meets Pan Trinbago president
Pan Trinbago
president Beverley Ramsey-Moore
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Pan Trinbago president
Beverley Ramsey-Moore met with Culture Minister Michelle
Benjamin on May 19, and the meeting has been described as
constructive and amicable.
A statement posted on the pan body’s Facebook page on May 19, said the
president met Benjamin along with members of Pan Trinbago’s central
executive committee at the ministry’s headquarters, Tower C, Wrightson Road,
Port of Spain.
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Web Posted - Monday
May 19, 2025
When Steel Talks
Hells Gate Steel Orchestra’s 2025 Panorama Launch - “Legacy
- Where it all began”
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
Antigua and Barbuda’s reigning Panorama champion, Hells Gate
Steel Orchestra, is hosting its upcoming Panorama Launch
entitled “Legacy - Where it all began.” The action is on
Saturday May 24, 2025 at Baker’s Corner in the Point, corner of
Brysons and St. John’s Streets in the country’s capital of St.
John’s.
read more
Web Posted - Sunday
May
11, 2025
When Steel Talks
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Steelpan &
Steelband Music Moms
Global - Happy Mother’s Day
to all the Steelpan & Steelband Music Moms, all over the world!
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Web Posted - Sunday
May 4, 2025
When Steel Talks
Pan Masters Steel Orchestra’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
North Brentwood, Maryland, USA - On May 5, 2025, the Pan Masters Steel Orchestra of Washington,
DC will celebrate forty years of showcasing Steelband Music in
the Washington Metropolitan area. Pan Masters has attributed its
success to a strong belief in the family, a determined group of
excellent musical arrangers, and an experienced administrative
and promotional organization, led by Malcolm John, which
continuously emphasizes quality performance and good clientele
relationships.
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Web Posted - Saturday
May 3, 2025
When Steel Talks
Radicle Tube Live Stream - 45th Point Fortin
Borough Day - featuring steel orchestras Renegades, Phase II Pan
Groove, Exodus, Trinidad All Stars & more
Point Fortin, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
A live stream of Point Fortin’s 45th Borough Day -
featuring steel orchestras Renegades, Phase II Pan Groove, Exodus,
Trinidad All Stars,
cultural performances, costumed participants, moko jumbies, and
more - in Point Fortin, Trinidad, on Saturday May 3, 2025.
See
live stream
Web Posted - Friday May
2, 2025
When Steel Talks
Live Stream - NYU Steel and Daron Roberts - Spring Concert
2025
New York, New York, USA -
There will be Spring Steelpan performances this Saturday before
a live audience on May 3 at New
York University’s Iris Cantor Theatre at the John A. Paulson
Center.
NYU Steel is under the guidance of
Dr.
Kendall K. Williams. Guest artist this season is Daron Roberts.
Showtime is from 8:00—9:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
See
live stream
Web Posted - Friday
May 2, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Atlantic LNG sponsors three events for Point Fortin Borough Day
A motorcycle
police interacts with cheering onlookers at the
Point Fortin’s 45th Anniversary Military Parade,
Victor Chin Kit Park, on April 25
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
Atlantic LNG says it is proud to be able to sponsor three key
events of the upcoming Borough Day celebrations: Pan on the
Move, the NIHERST Science and Technology Fair, and the Dock of
the Bay J’Ouvert Competition.
In a statement on May 1, the company said Point Fortin, which is
celebrating its 45th anniversary, held a special place in Atlantic’s history
and heart.
. . . .“Through Pan on the Move, Atlantic honours the steelpan, the only
acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century and a global symbol of TT’s
cultural genius. The company’s support celebrates the spirit of artistry and
national pride that resonates through the music of the steel orchestras.”
Pan on the Move will occur on "the streets of Point Fortin" on May 3.
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Web Posted - Tuesday
April 15, 2025
Antigua Observer
Steelband Association boss gets ultimatum: Call elections, or else
Antigua & Barbuda, W.I. -
Two prominent steel orchestras have issued an ultimatum to the
Antigua and Barbuda Pan Association demanding elections be held
before the end of April or face potential disruption to the 2025
Panorama competition.
Observer media [and When Steel Talks] was furnished with a
copy of the missive signed by
Keithley Athill Jr and
Maurisha Potter — the captains of
Hells Gate and
Panache steel orchestras, respectively, which was addressed to the pan
association President
Patrick ‘Stone’ Johnson on April 11, citing multiple
constitutional violations and governance failures dating back approximately
six years.
read
ultimatum
Web Posted - Sunday
April 13, 2025
When Steel Talks
NIU (Northern Illinois University) Steel Band in concert
DeKalb, Illinois, USA - NIU (Northern
Illinois University) Steel Band in concert -
Liam Teague, director, NIU Steelband & Steelpan Studio;
Yuko Asada, director CSA Steelband. K-Lee Blackwell & Jalen
Charles, directors, University Steelband
see concert
Web Posted - Tuesday
April 8, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Pan fraternity grieves for Mark Loquan
Mark Loquan
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -
The steelpan fraternity is mourning the loss of former NGC head
and musician
Mark Loquan, whose contribution to the development of the
movement has been invaluable. Loquan passed away on April 6
after a fight with cancer.
....Photographer Maria Nunes, who worked with Loquan on the film
projects Woman in Pan and Panyard Universe, said witnessing what
Loquan went through in the past year after being diagnosed with
glioblastoma, the most severe type of brain cancer will forever
stay with her.
....“Mark’s contribution to the world of steelpan is enormous.
His actions were consequential in ways that will impact for
generations. He was a man of clear-eyed vision and unwavering
commitment to do whatever he possibly could to build A Better
Tomorrow for TT through the steelpan. He saw the endless
possibilities of our beloved national instrument and over the
last 25 years he enjoined numerous people here at home, and
internationally, to work with him to realise his rock solid
vision of where we should be headed.
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Web Posted
When Steel Talks
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!
see complete information
index
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).
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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.
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