Trinidad and Tobago : Music

After government intervention, the 2013 edition of Trinidad and Tobago's annual cultural festival 'WeBeat - St James Live' is back on track; this coming after the host committee St. James Community Improvement Committee cancelled the event days earlier due to challenges they said emanated from lack of financial support. (panonthenet.com)

Panist, composer and arranger Kendall Williams presents his NYU recital (panonthenet.com)

The St. James Community Improvement Committee announces that after an uninterrupted run of twelve years, the 2013 edition of WeBeat - St James Live, originally scheduled to run from June 7th through 15th 2013, has been cancelled due to lack of financial support. (panonthenet.com)

Meet Eduardo “Lalo” Tellez, Percussion Professor in the Superior Institute of Music in Veracruz, Mexico, and founder of Mexico's first steel orchestra - Steel Band de Xalapa. (panonthenet.com)

NYU Steel is uniquely positioned to become one of the best steel orchestras in North America. Brooklyn is the home to some of the largest and best steel orchestras outside Trinidad and Tobago, so the potential for an even greater learning experience for the NYU students is there. (panonthenet.com)

Steve Regis – arranger, captain and founder of Sundowners Steel Orchestra – takes us back to another time, sharing insight into the band’s beginnings, accomplishments, and more, in a When Steel Talks Exclusive (panonthenet.com)

In an exclusive interview with When Steel Talks, Paul Charles of Carnival TV, speaks on meeting the challenge of presenting Caribbean entertainment and events to the world (panonthenet.com)

Award-winning journalist and film maker Dalton Narine speaks on how the steelpan instument and the legendary Neville Jules of Trinidad All Stars saved his life in a deeply personal and griping story. (panonthenet.com)

Eight steelpan ensembles compete in the First Citizens (FCB) International Steelpan Jazz Challenge 2012 Finals at the Grand Stand, Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain, Trinidad. At the end of the qualifying round Golden Hands Steel Orchestra amassed the highest points. (panonthenet.com)

SanFest - Steel orchestras from eight primary and eleven secondary schools battle for supremacy in the National Junior Arts Festival Steelpan Finals. (panonthenet.com)

Antigua and Barbuda's St. Joseph's Academy and Villa Primary School steel orchestras which triumphed in the 2011 steelband panorama competition, remained in Winner's Row for 2012. The champion bands participated in their secondary and primary school divisions, respectively. Music lovers heard from fourteen bands in the evening's competition (panonthenet.com)

It will be a colourful explosion of steel pan music and stylish fashions for 'Pan In Style' - a runway Fashion Show and After Party, unfolding on Saturday 3rd November 2012 at the pan yard of Sforzata Steel Orchestra in St. Augustine, Trinidad. It is part of Caribbean Fashion Plus Week, the largest Plus Size Fashion week event in the region, coming off in host country Trinidad and Tobago. (panonthenet.com)

It is the turn of Antigua and Barbuda's young steel pan musicians when steel orchestras from six primary schools and eight secondary schools compete for championship titles at the end of October. (panonthenet.com)

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGOs (FITUN) salutes the late legendary pan-tuner Bertie Marshall's signal legacy as an innovator and tuner of the steelpan instrument, while offering condolences on his passing to family, friends, and the community (panonthenet.com)

The Executive, Activist Council and members of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) join his family, the rest of the national community and the regional and international steelband movement in mourning the loss of Bertie Lloyd Marshall (panonthenet.com)

Sunity Maharaj speaks on one of the geniuses of Trinidad and Tobago - steelpan innovator Bertie Marshall (panonthenet.com)

New York Steelpan community join thousands in 'Making Strides Against Breast Cancer' Walk - Brooklyn Steel Orchestras Declare War on Breast Cancer. (panonthenet.com)

The global steelpan community pays respect to the late Legendary Steelpan innovator, builder and tuner Bertie Marshall. (panonthenet.com)

Three persons are vying for the position of President of Pan Trinbago-including the incumbent Keith Diaz-in the upcoming October 28 elections. In total there are ten posts within the organization for which nineteen candidates are in contention. (panonthenet.com)

US Virgin Islands' Rising Stars Youth Steel Orchestra out of St. Thomas, has just received critical funding from the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation which also actively supports education and youth initiatives across the Virgin Islands, and is known for supporting science research around the United States. (panonthenet.com)

Starting off as a small but high-quality entertainment event then held in Trinidad's Lion's Civic Centre ten years ago, Invaders Steel Orchestra's 'Pan Parang and Pork' has now established itself as the event that signals the opening of the Christmas celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago. (panonthenet.com)

An exclusive When Steel Talks interview with Andy Neils - former ace steelpan player for the legendary Renegades Steel Orchestra and now internationally-renowned steelpan tuner. (panonthenet.com)

The SteelPan Tuners Guild of Trinidad & Tobago has issued an invitation to its members to attend an Emergency Meeting in St. Ann's, Trinidad on October 8, 2012 (panonthenet.com)

Mosaic Steel Orchestra of Barbados did not disappoint when it came time for their appearances during 2012 Crop Over festivities earlier this year. They were in focus on the Pan in the City and the Pan Pun de Sand stages in Bridgetown and Brandon's Beach. (panonthenet.com)

Steelpan historian and panist Dalton Narine takes a look at Annie Lopez, the woman who inspired one of the most popular panorama tunes of all time - Woman on the Bass composed and sung by Irwin Reyes Johnson aka Scrunter. (panonthenet.com)

With his vision, the late 'Sonny' Goddard believed Trinidad and Tobago can produce musicians, people, of supreme quality through music. Thus, one such steel orchestra, today, that has recognized that and readily accepted the feat to partner with the Ministry of National Security to use music to achieve greatness, is reigning hat-trick and nine-time Panorama champs, Renegades Steel Orchestra of east Port of Spain. (panonthenet.com)

Fundraiser for well-known NY D'Radoes Steelpan player 'Bomber' aka 'Showtime' to be held, as the veteran pan player valiantly battles cancer. (panonthenet.com)

In an exclusive interview for When Steel Talks, Mary Ehikhamenor, PA to the CEO of the Africa-Trinidad & Tobago Steelpan Development Company, Ltd. (ATTSDC) - gives insight into the situation which has led to the dissolution of the original business partnership between Pan Trinbago and Xcel Steelpan Co. Ltd., which gave rise to the ATTSDC. (panonthenet.com)

The union among three organisations which bonded to form the Africa-Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan Development Company (ATTSDC), with its Head office situated in Lagos, Nigeria, is broken, and the partnership is no more. This according to the office of company CEO Chief Bowie S. Bowei. (panonthenet.com)

Starlift Steel Orchestra of St. Vincent & The Grenadines in historic New York visit - in concert, on the road for J'Ouvert, where and whenever they performed - Starlift came hard. (panonthenet.com)

The 2012 New York Steel Orchestra Panorama in review, taking a detailed look at the bands, performances, arrangers and related matters. (panonthenet.com)