Music Makers, a music school directed by Merle Albino de Coteau, celebrated its annual anniversary with an Achievement Day earlier this month at City Hall Auditorium, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain. The lively, entertaining programme included choral sele
Read more…Keith Smith
Friday, October 1st 2004
"Somehow," Lloyd Best began his seminal La Joya lecture three years ago, "I sense that this is a propitious moment. Keith Smith once wrote a series of articles in the Tapia newspaper about Berti
Read more…In what was defined as “an action to favor true and concrete cultural integration between Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba” a letter of intent was signed in the Trinidad and Tobago Trade Facilitation Office on Tuesday January 27th between Sanch Electroni
Read more…Sharing with the pan community. The Music Literacy Trust celebrated its 10th Anniversary on Oct 10, 2014. The video gives a snippet of some of the work done over 2004 to 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBs76kMQbH4
Read more…Mark Loquan was the man with the vision to preserve local music and engender a new generation of musicians by founding the Music Literacy Trust. PHOTO COURTESY MUSIC LITERACY TRUST
On October 10, a group of benefactors, patrons and well wi
Read more…The School
Success Village in Laventille, suburban Port of Spain, welcomed the construction of a co-educational, five year, secondary school in 1983 with attending students ranging from eleven to eighteen years. Renamed Success Laventille Secondary
Read more…A historical look at the pan with a focus on the contribution of a small village to its evolution has been documented. The meaningful and relevant documentation in the form of a book titled, Panriga — Tacarigua’s Contribution to the Evolution of the
Read more…Good day
The Music Literacy Trust (MLT) in Trinidad and Tobago celebrates 10 years of work later in October 2014. The journey over the years includes music preservation of our pan icons, encouragement of original music for the steelpan, scholarships
Read more…How can we make carnival the MAIN EVENT for the steelband as it once was?
How can we get it out of some peoples mind that carnival is not a SIDE SHOW for the steelband?
How can we get the steelband off the float and rolling again?
How can we get it o
Read more…March 3rd, 2014
Toronto. Canada
7:30pm (Carnival Monday night)
Greetings all,
This is a research project, and your input will be greatly appreciated. I wish to put forward a basic question of which you may feel free to respond
Read more…The First “Pan In School” in the world (Historically)
“Aldwin Albino speaks on
Hello Philbert Atteng : I recently saw your piece about the steelband at Calvary R.C. School, and I'm greatful for your imput; however there are some errors in your repo
Read more…With the advent of racks with wheels, came the challenging and gruesome task of moving steelbands from one place to another. That task was willingly and voluntarily picked up by none other than the steelband supporter. Were it not for those who becam
Read more…When I played in Merrytones, we had a Flag Woman that goes by the name "Mama Cita". Mama Cita! lol. (merrytonestodebone could probably share more on her being chosen as the flag woman.) She was a very colorful and animated character. I didn't know he
Read more…The Longevity Of The Steel Drum/Pan by George D. Goddard, B.A.
Cosmetic Surgery: If pan was a human body, there are many who believe that "Nature" (God) made mistakes, and made something that was imperfect, and needing perfection. So, like the human
Read more…The steel drum or steelpan is classified as an idiophone, by the Hornbostel-Sacs Number System (111.24).The P.H.I., E-Pan, MalletKat, and PanKat, however, are classified as "electrophones" (Numbers not assigned). Therefore, the E-Pan is NOT a steelpa
Read more…There were four panwomen in Tripoli in 1960-61..Dorothy 'Dotsy' Perez, Carol Smith, Agness Thomas and Whinthia Thomas..The first women to play on the road. 'arguably the first ever' in St James under arranger, Othello Molineaux.
Read more…In continuing to focus on the (often) unmentioned heroes of the Steelband Movement, we must acknowledge and honor those women who were instrumental in "pan moving forward". The STEELBAND SHEROES! Indeed, once the "steelbandsmen" figured out how to co
Read more…Where is the History of the steelpan, the arrangers and tuners in schools, the communities? It is not just about going into a room and learning to play different scales. Being able to know where this instrument came from, who played the first pan and
Read more…Kenya Lara is a semi-finalist in the DC-CAPITAL STARS Competition and A Night of DC-CAPITAL Stars Gala and hopes to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on March 26, 2013. Ms. Lara, a 17 year old Washington, DC pannist auditioned for the
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