the music’s popularity spread across the globe. The film demonstrates that international reach with documentary footage featuring Japanese and French steel pan virtuosos who arrive in Trinidad ...

On this day, 26 July, in 1951, the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) performed at the Festival of Britain, and in doing so introduced the steelpan and a new music genre to the world.

the foreign companies that controlled the oil resources of Trinidad worried about nationalization of their businesses. The island's prime minister declared steel pan music an important ...

By 1951, Trinidad's new steel bands put forward ... "There is something about the steel pan and Caribbean music in general that resonates with the rest of the world," says Prof Tim Wall, a ...

"We have—if you count just large steel bands—we have about 15." Pan's history ... embraced as a national music. The first Panorama competition came right after Trinidad's independence in ...

"It's the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago," Teague ... Liam Teague, steel band director at Birch Creek Music Performance Center, gives a steel pan concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in the ...

Jazz dissonance and tropical rhythms that suggest the wider Caribbean outside of Trinidad move the body of music for the instrument several steps ahead. Narell single-handedly plays all the parts of a ...

In 2015 they placed 12 th in the International Panorama competition held in Trinidad. NGC Steel Xplosion usually host a Youth Pan and Music Literacy Camp which take place during the July/August ...

The Birth of Steel Pan Music and the History of Trinidad All Stars Steel ­Orchestra. The author never misses a beat. The title of the book links the mettle of the inventors and exponents of pan ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) – In today’s Community Chat, WAVY Digital Desk Host Sarah Goode spoke with directors from the Rhythm Project. Watch the full Community Chat in the video player on ...

The country's unique charming steel pan music and carnival have gained popularity around the world. In November, 2021, Analisa Low assumed her post as the ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to China.