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Peace Steelband shines a light in the troubled Middle EastPeace
The instructor of the Peace Drums Project steelbands is San Fernando’s own Briele Scott, who recently returned to Israel for her second term of directing this unique music ensemble of secondary school...
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Mass bands of steel
One of the more unique phenomena on display at many steelpan events in the United States in recent years are mass steelbands in which individual players or smaller pan ensembles come together as one...
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Nashville’s Mat Britain teaching football players, playing pan on country hits
Nashville, Tennessee, like much of America’s heartland, is ruled by college football and country music. With little Caribbean diaspora to show, the region may seem somewhat foreboding for steelpan...
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Steelpan in Motion
After growing up in San Fernando, playing with Fonclaire and touring Europe with Skiffle, Wade Austin has become a highly regarded pan player and teacher in London.He runs a band and a programme call...
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New Orleans funk on pan goes to Northern Europe and Ukraine
Gregory Boyd is one of a handful of experienced pannists in Denmark and the only thing more unique than this fact is the unconventional road he took to a career playing T&T’s national instrument in...
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Manish—Pan Ambassador to Japan
Back home in Trinidad for a month from Japan, Michael “Manish” Robinson is busy making pans, playing pan and bringing several students from the Land of the Rising Sun to play our national...
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Liam Teague gets prestigious professorship
On March 16, Dr Janet Hathaway, Director of the School of Music at Northern Illinois University (NIU) announced that professor Liam Teague had been just named as the latest NIU Presidential Research,...
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Steelpan educators in US hold first convention
In 2016, a new national organisation of steelpan educators formed in the United States. The organisation is called the National Society of Steel Band Educators (NSSBE) and recently held their inaugural...
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From Steelpan to Handpan (Part 1)
It has now been many decades since the steelpan has spread throughout the world and now a “child” of T&T’s national instrument known as “handpans” or “hang” are starting to come of age. The...
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Handpan goes global
Yesterday we explored the history of the evolution of the handpan from steelpan to its original form, the hang. Now we look at its further explosion in both manufacturing and performance.This new class...
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