...More props, too, go to Sharpe and his band of merry men, the final night graveyard performance having pushed them to exhaustion foll
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The Voice -
Written by Dotun Adebayo
Is it because Shakespeare is not black? And why should black have to be white to be valid Professor Paul Gilroy once noted that we reject the black “in the Union Jack” at our cost and peril. When Elvis embraced
Read more…Yo, Gregory, please share. I know very few value what I bring to the table, as a "nobody", but sound advice is independent of the messenger. Peace.
Ten Actions Steelbands May Take To Escape The Steelband Quagmire Of 2017:
1. Pressure the Go
by David Lammy
22nd June 1948: Newly arrived Jamaican immigrants on board the ‘Empire Windrush’ at Tilbury. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)
My parents were part of the Windrush Generation that our Government invited to Britain as cit
Read more…Marcus Miller on Ralph MacDonald's Legacy
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Meet Carla Robinson
Illinois, USA
Illinois, USA - “The steelpan has proved its versatility, by being able to shine through classical music, jazz music and other genres of music that many feel the steelp
1st Place – Aaron “Voice” St. Louis
2nd Place – Dexter “Blaxx” Stewart
3rd Place – Orlando Octave
4th Place – Trevon Turner
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ....Trinidad steelband panorama, from its founding, was set up as a genius-vs-genius, who-better-than-who, kind of contest. Where else in the world has such a format persisted, I wonder? So I doubt very much that Boogsie's |
O O sweet TnT. At times the hero is the superman and then it comes a time when he needs our intervention. This is one such time. Illness threatens the
Read more…1979 -- In a unanimous decision, 300 individuals from 80 member steelbands of Pan Trinbago, vote to boycott the Panorama competition, in protest of the low and inadequate appearance fees they had been receiving for years. -- George D. Goddard Jr.
Dear panlovers:
Over the past three weeks I've tried to use my T&T Guardian column to tell a story of how pan is the remaining heart of the Labour Day Carnival, and the heartbreak of this year's Panorama, that I flew from TTO to NYC for, after missin
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Let me tell the story again. How I went Brooklyn. For Pan. Carnival Thursday night. Entering Despers USA’s panyard, I brush past police. On duty. Inside, news spreads. Kathleen Reilly,
I’ll tell the story from where it started. With the full 2 am flight from Piarco to Newark last weekend. By 10, I was in Brooklyn, in my Tobagonian friend’s mother’s apartmen
Trinidad Express Editorial
NOW nearing the end of its annual two-week run, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2017 has once again brought to light more than 100 fabulous works of the creativity and the artistry of Caribbean peoples on screen, dem
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The point of telling a story is the ending. The moral.
Sometimes the end falls out of a story. At times the beginning. Or middle. They have out of so many Caribbean stories, across waters,
Trinidad Newsday Editorial
Building our creative sector
Phase II pannist Yohan Chuckaree spoke of the irony that few know where to buy a steel pan, a sign that we have more to do when it comes to distribution of the national instrument. At the same
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