About The Festival

The World Steelband Music Festival was born out of the biennial Steelband Music Festival in Trinidad. This biennial Event was started in 1952 as a category in the National Music Festival, however the increased number of participants and the high standard of music and panmanship displayed, demanded the show be staged independently of the National Music Festival. read more about the festival 

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With the rapid spread and influence of the steelband throughout Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1940’s, it became necessary to organize and streamline its operation. The necessity saw steelbandsmen coming together in 1949 to form The Steelband Association of Trinidad and Tobago.  more on PanTrinbago