US – Sunday, November 21st, 3pm(CST). NIU, All University, and CSA Steelband Concert. www.niu.edu/music. Tickets available online at https://niumusic.universitytickets.com/w/ Live Webcast! https://www.niu.edu/music/performances/index.shtml The concert will feature Professor Robert Chappell, Dr. Greg Beyer and Arcomusical, Michael Taylor, NIU African Drumming Ensemble, Professor Rodrigo Villanueva, and guest vocalist Lili Fijiu.

TT – Desperadoes – Musical Conquerors takes its reader on “a chronological journey of the history of Desperadoes Steel Orchestra, noting several critical events and paying homage to key personalities, such as Lennard “Spike Jones” Edwards, Carl Greenidge, Clive Bradley, Rudolph “The Hammer” Charles, Roy Cape, Pat Bishop, Raymond “Artie” Shaw, Robert Greenidge, David Davis,

TT – By Mark Loquan: As a tribute to Dr. Ray Holman, who recieved his Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) earlier today, a documentary is to be released very, very shortly on the song, Pan on the Move, released in 1972 for Panorama as the first song composed by an arranger for Panorama, a trend which would

AG – The soothing sounds of steelpan music will resonate throughout the Dean William Lake Cultural Centre tonight where a steelband competition is scheduled to take place. Eight bands, comprised of five players each, will take center stage as they compete in the event which is part of the nation’s 40th Independence celebrations. The competition,

US – A crowdfunding campaign supported by the NIU School of Music and the NIU Foundation to help support the expenses of three NIU Steelpan Studies graduate studies from Trinidad and Tobago was recently featured in their home country’s largest newspaper, The Guardian. Joshua Bedeau, Jalen Charles and Rashunda Dorset-Headley know the challenges of being

TT – “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” That quote by Scottish writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson is posted on the crowdfunding donor wall of three T&T scholars, at Northern Illinois University (NIU) Joshua Bedeau, Jalen Charles and Roshunda Dorset-Headley, who are desperately trying to