TASSO Steelband jam for Raptors on “de Lakeshore”

TASSO Steelband jam for Raptors on “de Lakeshore”

When the Raptors decided to bang a drum about their amazing basketball win, the team turned to Steel!  On Monday, Toronto’s All Star Steel Orchestra, (TASSO) was the only steel band performing in the city’s largest ever peacetime parade. TASSO is a Toronto youth based steel pan orchestra under the direction of musician and educator […]

Pan goes international in August

By Alicia Sealey If you are a steelpan fan, courtesy of the internet, you were able to take in both London’s UK Panorama and Trinidad’s Pan on the Avenue last Saturday. Out of a field of six steelbands in London, defending champs – Real Steel – won for the third year in a row. Their […]