Bob Lyons: How to Play Pan Gigs Full-time for 30 years:...
Choosing the life of a full-time musician has its drawbacks. But enjoyment isn’t one of them. Bob Lyons has echoed this sentiment...
How to Fix a Sound Issue Mid-Gig
It’s summer, you’re booking loads of gigs and playing your heart out for tons of eager party people. Then one day, in the middle...
Top 5 Classic Pop Tunes That Include Steelpan
There are many popular songs that include steelpan in the history of music, but few deserve their own list. To qualify, those...
5 Ways To Stay Busy In The Off-Season
Playing pan year-round is something everyone strives for, but it's not always an easy task, considering the unfair stigma that pan is more of...
5 Tips For Affording Your Gear
Since the creation of memes (humorous images, videos or pieces of text that are copied and spread online), the Internet has buzzed with jokes about...
Negotiating Rate
Written by Ted Goslin
Getting someone to pay a large sum of money for a performance is not easy. There are a cavalcade of factors...
The Art of the Contract
Let's face fact: what we do is not easy. As musicians, it would be nice if we had someone else to handle the business...
Sharing the Love: How to Support One Another in Pan
So often when trying to get a discussion going in social circles about educating each other on how to improve pan business, I encounter...
Play Nice With Others
Written by Ted Goslin
If it's not enough that steelpan musicians are either asked to play the typical dread of our business (Belafonte, Little Mermaid)...
Off-Season Checklist
Written by Ted Goslin
There are always people in any profession that are able to stay busy during the most desolate of times, where even...
