I wonder how/if this crackdown on noise will affect steelbands preparing for Brooklyn Panorama 2003, and whether it will affect J'Ouvert of that year. Wanda ...
You raise a good point here Wanda. The cop were not very nice to the J'Ouvert people and Pan Yards this year. There were a host of problems. This is could be...
Al, I got your messages in yahoo. I like the tune Radoes did. And I can't tell if that's my cousin in front playing with Pantonic, because the picture isn't...
That stand was very low so I had to bend. It make me look taller. I eh so tall one time man. Anyway I like our tune too. I look forward to next year to see...
I arrived in Trinidad on October first, not knowing quite what to expect from this year's edition of the World Steelband Music Festival. I had been assured by...
For those of us who wish we were someplace else at this moment... Here is another "When Steel Talks" exclusive... Marsicans lead by the man himself Pelham...
I finally got to see that footage on Basement's site of Marsican's panorama tune. That was a nice piece of arranging Goddard did for them. I was pleasantly...
Hello all, I read there are some commemorative shirts for the steel band festival. Are they nice? Is there anyway someone could pick one up for me? I can...
The World Steelband Music Festival competition gets underway tomorrow, October 10th with the Solo Pan Semi-Finals. The competition will take place in the...
http://www.panheadlines.isgreat.net David "Happy" Williams and Ensemble Pan-O-Rama at New York's Lincoln Center Complex... The steel pan aka the steel drum -...
The competitions for the World Steelband Music Festival began Thursday evening at the St. James Amphitheatre. There were 30 performers scheduled for the...
FYI -- The pannist who placed first at the solo semi-finals, Leon "Foster" Thomas, is a Trinidadian who is in the U.S.A. attending University. Prior to last...
Leon took first place in the solo finals last night. Freddy Harris, also a student at Florida Memorial University and formerly a pannist with Moods in New...
As many as six steel orchestras in addition to Metro Steel are in jeopardy of losing their equipment and stands... Metro Steel Orchestra has been ordered to...
Artists -- is your work protected? BAC invites you to bring your questions to a noted legal expert who will discuss COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARK BASICS FOR THE...
http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertain1.html Pop and Pan: Trinidad-born pop singer Billy Ocean practises with the BWIA/Angostura Ebony steelband of London,...
2002-10-13 Pan love By Nigel Telesford “Pan Ga Sky!” (pronounced: pan-gah-skee). This Japanese expression of love (the meaning is “I love pan”) for our...
Hi there everyone there is a steel pan festival going on in Trinidad all now so.Do anyone have any news on what's going on right and how is the band from St...
London, England orchestra Ebony is in first place following the conclusion of the Orchestra preliminaries for the 2002 World Steelband Music Festival with a...
Robert Greenidge is one of the best to have ever played a pan... Just in case you have forgotten just how great an arranger he is... Here is Moods Pan Groove...
Everything I see online refers to East Coast groups. Does anyone know where I can find some info about West Coast -- SF Bay area in particular -- groups, ...
This month's "Pan Briefs" (http://www.pannews.isgreat.net) introduces more pan interviews, music and videos than ever before... In addition there are two new...
Exodus won, by three points over Skiffle Bunch. They scored equal points in the Tune of Choice...the difference was in the test piece. BWIA Ebony, from...
Terry Joseph wrote an article for the 19 October paper edition of the Trinidad Express which says several NYC steelbands have been evicted from or asked to...
WHEN STEEL TALKS is pleased to announce that since we broke this story on Sunday 13 October - the major Press and some politicians in New York have responded...