Saving the picture history of pan By Kim Johnson | Issue 108 (March/April 2011) Invented in the streets of Port of Spain, the steelband now has a photo archive recognised in Unesco’s Memory of the World register
Nearlin Taitt: the secret Trinidadian hero of Jamaican ska & rocksteady music By Kim Johnson | Issue 93 (September/October 2008) Nearlin Taitt, a Trinidadian, started in steelband, then invented rocksteady in Jamaica. Kim Johnson turns the spotlight on one of the mysteries of Caribbean music
Flashes of the pan By Kim Johnson | Issue 89 (January/February 2008) Kim Johnson is on a mission. He is compiling a National Steelband Archive but finding photos is hard. Beware, he may come knocking on your door soon
Russell “Russ” Henderson: taking it to the streets By Kim Johnson | Issue 86 (July/August 2007) Musician Russell "Russ" Henderson talks to Kim Johnson about his career in the early days of London's Notting Hill Carnival
West Indian Rhythm: “The real native music” By Kim Johnson | Issue 85 (May/June 2007) West Indian Rhythm transports listeners to the early days of calypso in Trinidad
When steelband took London by storm By Kim Johnson | Issue 113 (January/February 2012) Kim Johnson explains the musical and social importance of Taspo, T&T’s first national steelband
Trinidad All Stars: Fleet’s In By Kim Johnson | Issue 113 (January/February 2012) Photographer Abigail Hadeed follows All Stars, the oldest steelband in T&T, from its panyard in east Port of Spain
The beat of a different chutney soca drum By Kim Johnson | Issue 111 (September/October 2011) T&T’s chutney soca fuses Indian music with African elements drawn from calypso. Kim Johnson unearths its intertwined roots
