In 2008 and 2015 NGC Steel Xplosion won the Tobago House of Assembly Pan Champs Competition, In 2015 they placed 12 th in the International Panorama competition held 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.

Just like the emergence of the tango in South America in the 1890s, or the explosion of rock and roll in the US in the 1950s, Trinidad and Tobago’s steelpan bands have a rich and compelling story, ...

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. It ...

Mia Gormandy-Benjamin represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally in the US, Canada and Austria. She studied pan in Japan because, "I was fascinated by the number of Japanese pannists that we ...

Trinidad and Tobago national identity PAN POWER: Petrotrin Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra from Black Rock, Tobago performs during National Panorama Semi-Finals in the Queens Park Savannah as part ...

Trinidad and Tobago's PM has said the new Coat of Arms with the Steelpan shows that the pan had reached the country’s “highest heights." STEELPAN HISTORY: The iconic Steelpan on the Coat of Arms.