Tribute to Uric 'Ragga dat' Reid, Casablanca and City Syncopators player

Tribute to Uric ‘Ragga dat’ Reid
February 23, 1931-November 4, 2024
Uric Reid aka Ragga dat travelled from sixth street Barataria with his friend Joe Roseman to rehearse with City Syncopators. Joe recalled playing second pan on Carnival days with Ra

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PM Rowley announces Columbus' three ships will be removed from the Coat of Arms and will be replaced by the steel pan

He said that's a small first step that will end with the removal of the privy council as the final court of appeal

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Ode to a Steelband Visionary Anthony Abdul Reid

On his ID Card Abdul’s name is Anthony Reid. We refer to him as Bub because Abdul was also known as Beelzebub, or simply Bellzie, a name that has devilish connotations in Christian theology and in village talk back in the day. One man’s meat is anoth

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Panorama – The Real Carnival All-Inclusive

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Panorama is never short on drama. This year (2024) was no exception. A first-place tie and a last-place judgment have generated endless debate. But despite the annual tension, frustration and hints of conspiracy, the compe

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Beverley Ramsey-Moore – The boss of T&T’s steelpan community

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Beverley Ramsey-Moore – The boss of of T&T’s steelpan community

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - From the sleepy fishing village of Black Rock, Tobago emerged a woman who became the bass of the steelpan community in T&T.

Beverley Ramsey-Moore, the 17^th President of Pan Trinbago, and the fir

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Daly Bread: The Invaders’ fish broth tale

wired868.com

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....The fish broth story is connected to Invaders, which had a legendary musical rivalry with All Stars in the 1950s and 1960s.

Invaders have been present at their Tragarete Road location since 1941. There wer

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Meet Brenda Hosang - South Florida, USA - Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

“When I lived in Trinidad, in my eyes the steelpan was just a form of entertainment. I listened to Panorama on radio, I loved the music festival - on radio. In New York there was a program to promote the culture of your country and I got into suppor

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Music education is key contributor to academic achievement

The Seattle Times

Hundreds of parents and students recently protested cuts in arts and special education programs at the Edmonds School District board meeting. The district has to cut its budget by almost $12 million.

by Gary Gibson

Washington, USA

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Back to bacchanal

Newsday - Editorial

THE SUGGESTION made by Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore that the children's Carnival should be moved to make way for holding only the Panorama competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Carnival Saturday was tactles

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Remembering Louise McIntosh

by Andre Moses

St. Augustine Secondary Steel Orchestra has won ten (10) national titles: seven (7) Panoramas and three (3) Steelband Festivals. The band has toured Barbados, France, Scotland and South Africa and has produced music teachers, solo pe

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Pan Trinbago enacts major rule change for Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama

Rule -- 4.4.2 There are NO RESTRICTIONS on the number of bands players can perform with during the competition

A cursory check of major Panorama competitions in other countries revealed that other steelband associations had no hard-and-fast ru

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Kamla promised pan factory in 2010

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

(Letter to the Editor)

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - With national elections some three years away, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar (pictured) seems ready again to recycle promises made 12 years ago as leader of the

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Panist Marlon “Goose” Guerra of Utopia Pan Soul has passed

Marlon “Goose” Guerra

When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of ace veteran panist Marlon Guerra.

In Pictures...

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Pan Evolution - A Steelband Grows in Brooklyn

by Garvin Blake

Saturday, June 11 was etched on my calendar since BRIC released their Celebrate Brooklyn schedule in late April. Pan was again taking center stage at the borough's biggest and best summer festival. Adding to the anticipation, this s