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The Esso Trinidad Tripoli Steelband

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	Pantrinbago Inc - The World Governing Body for the Steelband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Steelband rivalry was always present and the first Steelband Association saw the need for channeling this energy into a positive direction.
		The Carnival fetes were dominated by the steelbands with an occasional brass band in attendance and from the mid-fifties to the late sixties the steelband ruled the road on Carnival days from J’ourvert morning to las-lap on Tuesday night which carried revelers to the brink of Ash Wednesday and the end of festivities.
		The Steelband is slowly gaining international recognition, although it is still regarded as a novelty and the very mention of the word Steelband still conjures up visions of exotic, tropical Islands, palm trees, sandy beaches and scantily dressed natives.
	www.pantrinbago.co.tt /competitions/aboutpanorama.asp (1366 words)

	The Long time Steelband - From the Steelband World
		The steelband was governed by a group of elders in the community and a Captain was elected as leader/chief of the steelband.
		The captain was the Chief of the steelband and the steelband was the tribe.
		The nucleus of the steelband movement was the panyard.
	www.basementrecordings.com /nap/stories/oo385.htm (7083 words)

	Steelband
		The steelband, steel orchestra, or "pans" as they are often referred to is a family of steelpan instruments, ranging from very high in the treble to very low in the bass.
		Frontline pans - Instruments in the frontline section of the steelband are:- the tenor pans, the double tenor pans and the double second pans.
		Usually the steelband is accompanied by other non-melodic percussion instruments such as the traps or drum set, the cymbals, the toc toc, to name a few and the very important 'iron'.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /music/Steel_OrchestraHistory.htm (620 words)

	Steelband (Trinidad)
		Rudolph Charles of the Desperadoes Steelband was the biggest innovator of new instruments when he introduced the nine-bass, the rocket bass, the quadrophonic pan, and the triple tenor.
		In 1971, the steelbands convened to form a new governing body, Pan Trinbago, to replace the National Association of Trinidad & Tobago Steelbandmen which was founded in 1950.
		In spite of the growing threat of compositions from panmen, Lord Kitchener's calypsoes remained very popular with arrangers and was the choice of eight Panorama winners during this decade.
	bestoftrinidad.com /steelband70s.html (611 words)

	Copenhagen Steelband - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Steelband music originates from the Caribian islands Trinidad and Tobago.
		It was in 1937, on the first day of the annual carnival, the sound of the steeldrum was heard for the first time.
		They got the name "steelbands" since they were playing on all the metal crate, that had been brought to the islands by the military bases.
	www.copenhagen-steelband.dk /uk/History.html (204 words)

	Steelband Woman -- Women and the Steelpan Art Form
		The steelpan and the steelband movement were created by young African men who were at the bottom of the social ladder in Trinbago.
		A sad aspect of the steelband woman was that many times she was partly responsible for the steelband riots during the 1960s.
		Other times a steelband man from one steelband would try to pick up a steelband woman from another steelband and the result would be a riot that would last through carnival.
	www.panonthenet.com /woman/2005/steelbandwoman.htm (784 words)

	The Steelbands (Pan) of Trinidad and Tobago
		Steelbands and Iron are as synonymous as steelbands and corn-soup, shark and bake, pees and rice, crab and dumplin’, curry-goat and roti, souse and fl-pudding, doubles and runnins’, bush-rum and headache.
		Steelbands and Iron have a marriage of consent that is so sweet, so inseparable, that it is blessed by every God that man has ever conceived to imagine on this planet.
		The Panorama Steelband Competition, initiated in 1963; was not the first steelband competition to be organised, nor is it the only steelband competition held in these islands, but it became and is, the Premiere steelband event of the year.
	www.seetobago.com /trinidad/pan/bands_tt.htm (5344 words)

	Pan on the Web.com
		The Panorama Soundstage - Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago
		Panorama 2005 - Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago
		Panorama 2006 - Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago
	www.ecaroh.com /pan (943 words)

	The Esso Trinidad Steelband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Tripoli Steelband goes back to 1942, where they took their name from the line in the Marine Hymn “....to the the shores of Tripoli”.
		Hugh Borde who was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1933, became the leader of the band in 1951, at the age of 18.
		Steelbands were built around oil drums, left over from American Oil enterprizes in Trinidad.
	www.songcycler.de /esso.html (911 words)

	Panland News > TTIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The second annual Laventille Steelband Festival was held on August 5th 2001 along the Eastern Main Road, Laventille.
		The second component was the Steelband Management Workshop that was held on July 28th, 2001 at the Angostura Glass Room.
		Specific emphasis was placed on situating the local steelband industry within the wider global context, the business of operating a steelband, financial and human resource competencies and marketing and public relations.
	www.steelpansttil.com /panlandnews/news_2001_8.php3 (1058 words)

	NPR : Liberace & the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband
		NPR : Liberace & the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband
		A family affair: the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband as a family band in the 1970s, with patriarch Hugh Borde, his five sons and two daughters.
		In 1967, the Esso Trinidad Tripoli Steelband (named after the World War II movie Shores of Tripoli) was sent by the government and the Esso oil company to represent Trinidad and the nation's musical heritage at the Montreal Expo World’s Fair.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3042000 (632 words)

	Steelband
		The Flag Woman performs an enthusiastic flag-waving dance during the live performance of her steelband.
		The 'iron man' is the virtuoso percussionist in the engine room of the steelband.
		Pan Trinbago is the official body which represents the interests of the steelband movement.
	library2.nalis.gov.tt /Default.aspx?PageContentID=221&tabid=165 (345 words)

	village voice > news > The Steelband Raids by Peter Noel
		According to the complaint, Philip and steelband captains Anthony Joseph and Anthony Trebuse allegedly had been "informed and instructed by high-ranking officers" that August 24 would be "the last night to practice and rehearse.
		Although the Parkside Avenue steelband players and masqueraders had grown accustomed to sporadic harassment from police over the years, it was an unusual collusion between cops and Klyn Properties Inc., owners of the lot, that sparked a 10-night, tension-riddled standoff with authorities.
		Shortly before the new spate of raids, the landlord—bypassing legal proceedings in which he might have obtained a warrant for eviction—filed an affidavit at the 71st Precinct station house, complaining that the steelbands, which have occupied three buildings on the lot rent free since 1994, were trespassing.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0035,noel,17758,1.html (2050 words)

	Anja-2
		Thereby I have seen a steelband for the very first time of my life: The “Unknown Band” of the school.
		With the clarinet I hoped to play together with other musicians in the school orchestra or during music trips, which was right.
		Furthermore I got a member of the preliminary steelband during my 8th class.
	www.tinpanalley-steelband.de /HomeEnglish/Who/Player_Introduction/Anja-2/anja-2.htm (491 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He began his steelband career playing and arranging for the Southern Symphony steelband, the first steelband in history to perform while reading musical arrangements.
		In the mid-1950s, Southern Symphony gained the first steelband sponsorship in history when it became the Esso Southern Symphony.
		In 1961, Bonaparte made the transition from steelband to conventional music and returned to Trinidad with his band, The Bonaparte Brothers.
	www.bestoftrinidad.com /steelband/bonaparte.html (228 words)

	World Steelband Music Festival 2006
		The World Steelband Music Festival was born out of the biennial Steelband Music Festival in Trinidad.
		This biennial Event was started in 1952 as a category in the National Music Festival, however the increased number of participants and the high standard of music and panmanship displayed, demanded the show be staged independently of the National Music Festival.
		With the rapid spread and influence of the steelband throughout Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1940’s, it became necessary to organize and streamline its operation.
	worldsteelbandfestival.com (276 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gary recently completed a masters degree in performing music from the University of Mississippi. He has recently returned to "Ole Miss" to pursue a Ph.D. in music theory.
		In addition to training most of the students in steelpan, the Steelband program offers tutoring, mentoring, Life Skills training and exposes students to educational and cultural activities.
		Artists, administrators and audiences – both at home and far from home – consider the East of the River Police Boys and Girls Steelband a minor miracle of a musical institution that continues its mission of enhancing young lives.
	www.eorsteelband.org (431 words)

	Calypso: Resources
		Study of the history and contemporary life of one of Trinidad's top steelbands, based on extensive interviewing and photographic documentation.
		Historical and ethnographic overview of the steelband movement in Trinidad.
		Particular attention to the steelband as a contested symbol of national identity.
	calypsoworld.org /noflash/resources.htm (1283 words)

	CD Baby: HARMONICS STEELBAND: Movin'
		The Harmonics Steelband provides exotic and scintillating sounds of CARIBBEAN STEELDUM MUSIC that has fascinated audiences all over Nothern California and Nevada.
		For over 20 years, the Harmonics Steelband has warmed the hearts of Bay Area music lovers and party-goers with the scintillating sounds of its steel pans and its pulsating Caribbean rhythms.
		I heard the Harmonics Steelband perform in our neighborhood park, and I went home and immediately ordered their CD.
	www.cdbaby.com /harmonicssteel (520 words)

	NORDFest 2004 Steelband Festival :: The Pan Blog :: Steel Pan Weblog (formerly the Steel Drum Message Board) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pfanne steelband initiated the performances of the day followed by Steel Magic, Off Beat, Kaleidoscope, Cariba, Zurich Renegades, Steel Parrots, Danza Mania, Corazon Latino and Sweat and Steel steelbands bringing down the curtain on what was a very well planned, entertaining and enjoyable event.
		Each steelband’s performance was individual and a highlight in itself proving the versatility and dexterity of the instrument and its musicians.
		In addition to the steelband festival there was also extra entertainment provided in the MFO Park with lots of different playground rides and bouncy castles for the children and another stage for music bands and choirs.
	www.steeldrum.net /panblog/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=29 (773 words)

	Lost and Found Sound: Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband
		In 1971 he traveled with the Esso Trinidad Tripoli Steelband and Liberace, filming an hour-long documentary about the band.
		To this day, he still says that the Tripoli Steelband was "the greatest group I've ever had the privilege to produce.
		The best group to express the love that I had for calypso was the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband.
	www.npr.org /programs/lnfsound/stories/030304.liberace2.html (420 words)

	In the past
		There he got the first contact to steeldrums and steelbands.
		The steelband was found on June 26th, 1977.
		This was somehow strange, because they had to play right after a rock band and the audience was not interested of a steelband (“What the hell is a steelband all about?”).
	www.tinpanalley-steelband.de /HomeEnglish/InThePast/inthepast.htm (557 words)

	Mangrove Steelband - Europes No 1 Caribbean Steelband
		The Mangrove Steelband and Mas Band was formed in1980.The Bands successes have included.
		The Mas band winning Biggest and Best band on the road at the Notting Hill Carnival and having costumes displayed in american museums, The steelband touring the world and winning Notting Hill Carnival panorama and best steelband on the road.to name a few of the numerous accolades for music and costume.
		We can provide steelbands and Caribbean function bands for any event and venue.
	www.mangrovesteelband.com (191 words)

	Copenhagen Steelband - Mp3 Music
		In 1994 we recorded our first CD, which was released the year after.
		This CD was the first Danish album with pure steelband music.
		Do you wish to hear the tunes at their full length, or du you wish to hear the rest of the CD, you can order the CD's by phone +4520984380.
	www.copenhagen-steelband.dk /uk/Music.html (123 words)

	Steelband Homepage
		The first performances of the MNU Steelband were in August 2001.
		Three performances on consecutive days were presented for the MNU Faculty and Staff, the Kansas City Ethnic Enrichment Festival, and a Multi-Cultural Traditional Music Festival in Shawnee, Kansas.
		During the regular academic semesters the steelband rehearses twice each week and performs in a variety of settings on campus (chapel, meetings, dinners) and in the community (festivals, schools, churches, meetings).
	www.mnu.edu /academics/finearts/worldmusic/steelband (270 words)

	Salah and Family Steelpan Workshop Steelband - Montreal - Canada
		The Steelpan Workshop steelband has been busy making television appearances, radio shows, performing at school functions, private functions, shopping malls, campuses, cultural activities and concerts.
		Concert venues and appearances have included the Spectrum, Pollack Hall, Loyola Concert Hall, in accompaniment to the Jubilation choir; a presentation of both American and Canadian Anthems at the Olympic Stadium prior to an Expo’s Baseball game; the Molson Centre during a Hockey game; and five days at the Montreal International Jazz Festival 1997.
		The Salah and Family Steelpan Workshop Steelband can be rented, in part or in total, to provide you or your occasion with an entertaining selection of music - Caribbean style.
	pages.infinit.net /salahpan/spwkshp.htm (475 words)

	Nos Dos Steelband Provides Musical Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Felix Walroud, born in Curaçao Juni 25th 1944, formed his first steelband when he was 13 years of age using self-made steeldrums.
		When Felix was 15 years he already gave tuition to the steelband of the Royal Marine Corps (Koninklijke Marine) in Curaçao.
		Amongst other things Felix works as teacher at the steelband of the Netherlands Police Orchester in Driebergen and he has been a teacher for 10 years with the steelband of the Corps Marines (Korps Mariniers) in Rotterdam.
	nosdos.freewebspace.com /over-ons/about-us.html (440 words)

	It's Congratulations Again! Another successful Steelband Jamboree - from the steelband world
		A larger venue, an almost overwhelmingly hot and sunny afternoon, and a traditional holiday weekend; add to the mix the anticipation of hours of steelband music, and you have the makings of the perfect musical summer opener.
		With a diverse repertoire that showcased their versatility, the band responded to the crowd's enthusiasm - so much so it seemed that the band may have actually performed a bit longer than expected.
		The steelband lovers appeared to enjoy their performance in totality, liberally soaking up the music and sometimes singing along; a particular crowd favorite was their rendition of the 2006 soca hit Roll It.
	www.panonthenet.com /articles/usa/maryland/masters2006.htm (1125 words)

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