When you follow your bliss, the synchronicities are ecstatically validating with rewards beyond your dreams, not necessarily making a living but living a love. The unassuming St. Lucian pannist, composer, arranger Allison Marquis truly exemplif...

The new business model for the Steelpan industry is an ecosystem based on collaboration rather than competition. Akua Leith explains the pillars and principles that guide this system in the founding of MITTCO (Musical Instruments of Trinidad an...

"Be like water" was Bruce Lee's famous admonition. For Victor Provost, Pan was the instrument he played growing up on St. John in the Virgin Islands. Jazz was the music he loved. The melding of the two was no conscious exploration, it was an or...

One of the steelpan art form's prodigious talents talks about the challenges of building an identity outside of conditioned perceptions in the music industry and the indigenous culture from which it emerged. 

“In the US, every instrument…guitar, trumpet, piano, has its own society where people who are interested…or are practitioners and teachers in that discipline, get together at conferences, via professional journals, websites; and they share best...