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 ...

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.

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 ...

Steel pan music came to UK in 1951 when a band from Trinidad and Tobago performed at the Festival of Britain.Steel bands developed during the Second World War in Trinidad in the Caribbean ...

In 1937, pans, dustbin lids and oil drums were used a percussion and became a popular section of Canboulay music contests. In 1941, the arrival of the US Navy on Trinidad, steel pan music became ...

to brainstorm on ways to enhance quality production of Steel Pan in its music department, for global recognition. By the way, Steelpan is a musical instrument that originated from Trinidad and ...

Join us on Fridays, Feb 16 and 23 from 7pm-8pm at the AGO's Walker Court to immerse yourself in the vibrant world of steel pan music with Suzette ... Originating from Trinidad and Tobago in ...

A documentary film directed by French film-makers Daniel Verba and Jean-Jacques Mrejen on the history and development of the steel-drum ... film was shot during a carnival and music festival in ...

The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago.