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Organizers of last Friday evening’s “Pan in D Street” must feel very encouraged at the positive response from pan lovers and the general public. It was part of an initiative to popularize the steelpan, just recently honoured by the designation of the General Assembly of the United Nations of August 11, the very date of the local action on Bay Street in Kingstown, as World Steelpan Day. It is not …
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Steelpan drums, invented in Trinidad and Tobago, and the culture behind their sound will be celebrated every August 11 as World Steelpan Day. Janine Mendes-Franco (Global Voices) writes, “It’s a potent instrument, a tool to bring us together.” Here are excerpts from this heart-warming article. In a resolution adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly on…