The year 1935 is generally accepted as the watershed year for the transition from bamboo to metal. That year the Newtown Tamboo Bamboo band led by Lord Humbugger, discarded their lengths of bamboo and took to the streets for J'Ouvert with a full complement of metal containers. These included garbage bins and covers, biscuit drums, paint cans, brake drums, chamber pots and bottles and spoons.

Remember pan icons before death
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Last rites for pan icon Oscar Pile
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Panorama 2008 Finals Results
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Remembering 'TJ'
Friday, January 4, 2008
Terry Joseph loses fight against cancer
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Journalist to create Picture of Pan History
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Invaders laments loss of their panyard
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Kim Johnson Requests Pan Photos
Monday, February 5, 2007
Pan innovator gets helping hand
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Racism Cannot Beat the Steelpan
Sunday, December 24, 2006

Renegades Youth wins Panorama
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
All Stars' 'Thunder' with a vengeance
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
All Stars out front
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Renegades clinches youth title
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thunder or Vengeance
Thursday, January 24, 2008
All Stars and Phase II in tie
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Govt in charge of pan
Friday, December 21, 2007
Skinner Park gets ready for Panorama
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Shaking the pan world
Sunday, July 22, 2007
High hopes for new pans
Sunday, July 22, 2007

Rudolph Edwards: Journey with Desperados
- Interview with Rudolph Edwards, July 19, 2005
Bertie Marshall Speaks on the Steelpan
- Interview with Bertie Marshall, March 18, 2005
'Bajan Cecil' made the judges sit up
- by Kim Johnson, Posted: March 02, 2005
The man who sourced the steel
- by Kim Johnson, Posted: March 02, 2005
The Early Beginnings of the Steelpan: The Untold Story
- Interview with Norman Darway, March 01, 2005
The Talented Codrington Pan Family
- February 22, 2005

• Remembering Pan Pioneer Oscar Pile
• Norman Darway: Just call him Mr. St James
• The Early Beginnings of the Steelpan: The Untold Story
• Steelband Hoax: Winston Simon did not invent Pan
• From Drums to Tamboo Bamboo to Sweet Steel
• Sufferers of St James: Sonny Roach and the Sampson brothers
• The man who sourced the steel
• 'Bajan Cecil' made the judges sit up
• Tripoli, the great St James steelband
• Wilbert Forde: Man from the Hill
• George Braithwaite: Bassman of Broadway Hatters
• Roy Harper: From Barbados to Blue Stocking Alley
• Sonny Jones: So long, Sonny
• Sonny Roach from St James
• Kenrick Thomas: Survivor of the 50s Movement
• The great Bonaparte
• Hamilton Thomas: Hell Yard - A Place of Rhythm and Riot
• George Goddard's Spirit Lives On
• Pioneer on the biscuit drum
• Pan debate must be opened up
• Story behind the Steelpan
• Lenagan Barnes Loved The Spirit Of Togetherness
• Tribute to the Legend Clive Bradley
• A bit of Despers History from Roy Corrigan
• Rudolph Edwards: Journey with Desperados