Steelband Music (784)

TOMORROW (August 11th, 2019) promises to be an HISTORIC DAY for STEELBAND MUSIC as the WORLD STEELPAN DAY is launched. I applaud the efforts of BERTEL GITTENS and SIMEON SANDIFORD!!!

At 11 a.m. tomorrow (August 11th, 2019) the WORLD STEELPAN DAY is going to be LAUNCHED at the PAN TRINBAGO HEADQUARTERS in PORT OF SPAIN, T…

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Liberty's Tina Charles set to debut documentary on her father at Tribeca Film Festival

Rawlston Charles, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, promoted Calypso and Soca music to the world through his record store and his musi…

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I have come to the conclusion that 1947 is the year that the first TENOR PAN was BUILT (in T&T) using a 55 gallon OIL DRUM!!!

If you go around the PAN CHAT FORUMS you will see hundreds of PAN LOVERS talking about PAN in the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES and a little bit in…

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I don't mean to be ELITIST (however, I do have the BEST EAR FOR GLOBAL PAN MUSIC in THE WORLD) -- but does CANADA have any PAN TALENT?

I have never seen ANYONE post a VIDEO of a CANADIAN PAN PLAYER who is a STANDOUT.  Come on CECIL HINKSON -- help me out here. But doh waste…

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Well suddenly there is a new buzzword in the PAN WORLD: VOCABULARY!!! But when it come to PAN MUSIC -- I have a very NARROW VOCABULARY ... ANDY NARELL and SILVER STARS!!! END OF STORY!!!

Started by Claude Gonzales

Earl Richards: They are calling for "Pan Trinbago to be scrapped" and for THE BEV to give up the PAPPYSHOW and go and PLANT PEAS IN TOBAGO ...

EARL: Is not me who start the talk, eh!!! But after the dismal failure of the TRINIDAD PAN SOLOISTS to make a mark on GLOBAL PAN -- don't…

Started by Claude Gonzales

SHARMAIN BABOOLAL -- SHE START A BACCHANAL

Sharmain Baboolal "Pan Trinbago reached begging status .Sorry to be so harsh. Duvone Stewart, Renegades , a Barbados based Trinbagonian (Pa…

Started by Claude Gonzales

I could have a ONE MINUTE CONVERSATION with KEISHA CODRINGTON and improve her score by 15 to 20 POINTS ... so I am TOTALLY CONFUSED!!!

You have all these MUSICAL GENIUSES down in TRINIDAD and NOBODY was able (willing?) to pull her aside and point out her OBVIOUS WEAKNESS as…

Started by Claude Gonzales

PAN CRITIC WOES: Ah see the YANKEE SHIP (NEW YORK SHIP -- actually)!!! AH SEE THE ANTIGUAN SHIP!!! AH SEE THE BAJAN SHIP!!! But ah CYAR SEE the TRINIDAD PAN SOLO SHIP ...

Started by Claude Gonzales

The LITTLE THINGS that they learn from we; insufficient to ALL DEGREE; we are THE GREAT UNIVERSITY ...

... but since then TRINIDAD HAS BEEN "LEFT BEHIND" (Is not me who say that, eh) ... and thanks to AINSWORTH MOHAMMED engineering THE 2020 I…

Started by Claude Gonzales

Ah trying to see if KHAN CORDICE could REACH ME ...

RAINORAMA

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I DO NOT THINK that EXODUS should have another INTERNATIONAL PAN RAMAJAY in 2021 because it will be JUST ANOTHER EMBARRASSMENT for TT PAN PLAYERS!!! But on the other hand, with VISA as a SPONSOR ...

... THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!! In which case, I have a few suggestions. They should forget about the INTERNATIONAL JUDGES and PICK SOME JUDGES…

Started by Claude Gonzales