{"id":158,"date":"2020-05-13T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:12:01","slug":"welcome-to-steelpan-european","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Steelpan European"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Dortmund\/Germany &#8211; <\/span><\/span>Photo from right to left:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Rob Booden, NL <\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Jenny Lee, F \/ T&amp;T <\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Matthias G. Kauer, CH<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>UN declares<br \/>\nAugust 11th World Steelpan Day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Last update: Tuesday April 14th, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">STEELPAN EUROPEAN (SE) is a paneuropan organisation, foundet in May 1999 by steelband representatives from Demark, France, Germany, Switzerland an the United Kingdom at the Embassy of Trinidad &amp; Tobago in Bruxelles. Soon representatives from Finnland, Sweden und The Netherlands joint the association.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">SE organized in May 2000 the first European Steelband Festival at Parc de la Villete in Paris and 2 years later a second festival in S\u00e8te\/France. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">If you are looking for Compact Discs with steelband music from Europe and Trinidad &amp; Tobago please see: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/steeldrums.ch\/?page_id=342\">https:\/\/steeldrums.ch\/?page_id=342<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><em style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; fin\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dortmund\/Germany &#8211; Photo from right to left: Rob Booden, NL &#8211; Jenny Lee, F \/ T&amp;T &#8211; Matthias G. Kauer, CH UN declares August 11th World Steelpan Day Last update: Tuesday April 14th, 2026 STEELPAN EUROPEAN (SE) is a paneuropan organisation, foundet in May 1999 by steelband representatives from Demark, France, Germany, Switzerland an the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to Steelpan European<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":111,"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelpaneuropean.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}