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PODCAST: How to build a music business company. A conversation with Etienne Charles

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Laura and Nigel chat with acclaimed jazz musician Etienne Charles from Trinidad and Tobago about how he built his international career. His forays into the business of music in the United States are examined to understand how building a

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ilo ilo Surprise With Refreshing, Vibrant Debut EP ‘wish i said this to u sooner’

JAKE NIXON

The mystery of ilo ilo continues… Today we get the enigmatic artist project’s debut EP, wish i said this to u sooner. Everything about ilo ilo is dialed in. From the music to the branding to the wild rollouts, everything seems calculated

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Happy Birthday to Hueloy Yip Young - global promoter and supporter of all things Pan

When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to  Hueloy Yip Young..

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Meet Danica Livingston - Trinidad & Tobago -- Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

“I remember one year we had a performance in South on Mother’s Day and Len “Boogsie” Sharpe stopped the bus to buy flowers for every female player on the bus, whether or not you were a mother. It’s little things like those that go a long way within

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Pan Trinbago on Carnival Season - Changes for Panorama 2020

The long carnival season is finally over. The winners have been crowned and now it's time to assess, how can we improve for next year? Pan Trinbago's President Beverly Ramsey-Moore made it clear the last time she was here that the organization want

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Meet Jeanelle Alexander - Trinidad & Tobago -- Celebration of Women and the Steelpan Art Form

“I would urge them to remain passionate and remember the reason they first wanted to play pan; childhood memories especially, I feel, affects this futuristic decision to move forward and be a pan player. Always strive for excellence and knowledge to

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Just The Facts: The Difference Between Large & Medium Steelband Categories - That ‘Share’ Button

Venture Capitalists + Steelband Categories - NOT!

Global - Just the facts - the difference between Large and Medium National Panorama Finals where it is key: in the minds and hearts of the People, the all-round supporters of the art form. And what d

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BigUp to Chantal Esdelle for an awesome job on the ttt 2019 Panorama Semi Finals broadcast

Ms Esdelle brought facts, knowledge, and tangible experience to the conversation.

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Pan Trinbago Takes It Twice on the Chin - Loses in the Court of Law and in the Court of Public Opinion

It’s a “Go” for ‘Savannah Grass’

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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - This was not just a legal loss in the courts, it was also a severe “beat-down” for the new Pan Trinbago executive in the eyes of the public. They were savaged and severely criticized for

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A Message from Exodus Steel Orchestra

Exodus speaks on the outcome of their recent court case versus Pan Trinbago

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Panorama 2019 -- Maria Nunes Photography

Supernovas Steel Orchestra during rehearsal for Panorama Preliminaries at their yard in Surrey Village, Lopinot Road — at Surrey Village, Lopinot Road, Arouca.

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EXODUS MUSIC FOR THA PEOPLE by Dalton Narine

Sorry, Bob. Just a paraphrase. You’re not alone.

Same same here in Trinidad & Tobago.

Me too, and some of we too have been following your line of thought.

For example, we’re not grazing animals, and not a soul had the Savannah Brass to question Kes

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When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Adrina Byam of New Dimension Steel Orchestra on her passing

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The Pan fraternity just lost a player here in Grenada. Adrina Byam, a 4 Cello player with the New Dimension Steel Orchestra died today [February 23, 2019]. She would have also played with River Road Pan Wizards and also the Anglican High School

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A home for Despers; Demming cries for Laventille’s iconic but homeless steelpan side

by Dennise Demming - Wire868

Photo: Members from the Despers Steel Orchestra rehearse for the 2019 Panorama competition.
(Copyright Maria Nunes)

..It is as real as hanging over the pan stand and allowing the music to envelop your being ‘til the teno

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The Mighty Shadow | Icon

By Attillah Springer

Dear Winston, the Immortal,

Now that you are gone but not really, I can say some of the things I always wanted to say to you, but could never find the words or the right moment.

On our encounters, I always felt like I was in the

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Panorama 2019 Start with Launch on Saturday at Renegades Pan Theatre

Pan Trinbago Inc. T.C. will launch this year’s Panorama competitions on Saturday January 19, 2019, at bp Renegades Pan Theatre, Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

 

This year’s competition is in “Tribute to Our Cultural Icons”

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And why is Pan Trinbago accepting this?

‎Winston Vallie‎ says:

Yesterday I heard the chairman of the NCC making statements on the radio and was shocked. This man is saying pantrinbago owes the government and so let them pay the players because the government has no intention of paying play

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Toby: Non-payment of stipends could impact Panorama

“All bands are practising. They started their preparation well before Christmas. “There would be judging in the various pan yards and we begin with the single pan bands and then we move on to the other categories which is the Small, Medium and Lar

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The zero-sum game of pan by Dara Healy

Trinidad Newsday

I read the words of recently elected Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore promising to make our pan industry viable: “...We will ensure that that drum-making factory...will bring in millions, upon millions, upon millions so th

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The Carnival is over - by Raffique Shah

Published with expressed permission of the author 
(Originally published in the Trinidad Express)

..It will take many men with many balls to reclaim our heritage, to put this Humpty Dumpty together again....

I was pleasantly surprised when the anno

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