PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Recognized as the pre-eminent steel band competition in the world, Panorama is an annual Carnival music competition open to both conventional and single pan steel bands in ...

Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the heart of Port of Spain, capital of the island ...

If countries had national instruments, then the steelpan would be Trinidad's. In an island nation of just 1.5 million people, there are about 70 steel bands registered to compete in the annual ...

From Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Free Radio publishes another podcast, this time focusing on “veteran producer and steel orchestra arranger, Pelham Goddard” as he discusses the evolution of steel ...

The lifeblood of Trinidad and Tobago's annual Carnival celebrations is new music; it couldn't survive without it. Seasonal fetes blast the latest soca tunes to the delight of partygoers, but this ...

June 18 (UPI) --A musician from Trinidad and Tobago broke a Guinness World Record by playing steelpan for 31 consecutive hours. Joshua Regrello, 28, started playing steelpan, also known as a steel ...

Bobby Robson was simmering — and not only because of the 35C (95F) heat of the Caribbean sun. “The games, especially the second one against a Tobago XI, were a joke,” former defender Steven Caldwell ...

The Trinidad and Tobago High Commissioner to Nigeria Wendell De Landro has said his country plans using its steel band music to boost cultural exchange between his country and Nigeria. He made this ...