Guyanese American Delegation Ends Successful Cuba Encounter

...Some four decades ago the Government of Guyana donated a set of steel pans to the Cuban community in Santiago de Cuba as well as provided two steel pan tuners to assist with the launch of Cuba’s first steel orchestra.

On Friday afternoon, two of t

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What is the true worth and scope of the national instrument?

by Sandra Blood

Is there an elite realm of pan?

How should an elite steel orchestra be characterised? Does T&T comprise elite steel orchestras – yielding Bach, Beethoven or Tchaikovsky-quality music worthy of concert fees being $1,500 or US$250 per e

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The International Steelband Foundation (aka Big Five) must demand an apology for Master Tuner Birch Kelman or apologize for its own complicity in the crime

The honorable Birch Kelman was insulted in public at an event (Panorama 2018) that your members supported and participated in. Please allow Mr. Kelman the dignity of knowing that his life work and commitment to excellence is worth more to your organi

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PANIST PROMOTING PANIST.

What is your opinion about the Steelband Movement promoting the works of Pan music composers Boogsie, Andy, Ray, Pellham, Robert, Pro. Bradley and any other composer.?

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Pane tickets for PT executive members, South zone, who are you supporting now? Everyone you supported got paid off.

South zone, who are you supporting now? Everyone you supported got paid off.

by Aquil Arrindell

The motion against the C.I.P (in an unconstitutional meeting) was moved by Wire, accepted by the chairman and his executive and was passed by the members

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IT'S JUST A GOOD IDEA.....

Having steelbands roll through the Savannah for panorama preliminaries is just a good idea that should not be dismissed today. Doing this will have a lasting effect on the young generation.   

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Mr. Diaz be the hero; kill the monster you created.

Mr. Diaz be the hero; kill the monster you created.

 

By Aquil Arrindell

 

Divide and rule.

 

Before Carnival, I wrote an article that explained that the only reason the president called a meeting with single bands was because he had heard that Mr. A

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Renegades Steel Orchestra player lands role in Black Panther

#OJOTTRN #EXCLUSIVE
Trinidadian Teneisha Campbell has had leading roles in other movies, but a cameo appearance as a border tribeswoman in a fight scene between Black Panther and M'Buku has turned out to be the most exciting moment of her career.

Bor

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Rudy T, ambassador for pan

Trinidad Newsday

President Anthony Carmona greets Rudy “Twoleft” Smith at the Office of the President on February 20.

RUDY “Twoleft” Smith is an ambassador for steelpan in Denmark, where he lives in Copenhagen, and throughout Europe.

However, his h

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BIG TRUCKS FOR CARNIVAL ARE HERE TO STAY!!!

You have to UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE!!!

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NEW PRESIDENT paints a GRIM PICTURE of Trinidad and Tobago

Weekes said many have beset us with dismal stories, “telling us that T&T is currently close to the point of no return…crime, corruption, racism, a dismal public services an

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Look here! supporters enjoying themselves, with pantrinbago election in the air, who ever the next president is please bring the 2019 Panorama back to the people.

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I like the NEW CALYPSO KING OF THE WORLD!!!

I am sure that not too many people in the rest of the world will get upset when we call HELON FRANCIS "CALYPSO KING OF THE WORLD" ... and I figured out what I was hearing in terms of the delivery style of the lyrics and I could live with it. So now I

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Cuban steel orchestra started with pans, training from Guyana now “a hit”

By Abbisola Oxley

Havana,  Cuba – Some 40 years ago Guyana donated the steel pans to help form the first steel orchestra in Cuba which is based in Santiago de Cuba. Today, the band is “a hit” and is popular throughout Cuba.

On February 23rd, as Guyan

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WHEY PAN GONE??? ALLYUH BETTER WAKE UP and smell the coffee which is being served at 8:15 AM

NSSBE Inaugural Conference: Saturday, March 10, 2018

The National Society of Steel Band Educators will host its inaugural professional conference on Saturday, March 10, 2018 on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The conference will be op

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According to sources on the ground, RICHARD FORTEAU holds the lead in the run-up to the MARCH 27TH, Pan Trinbago Election!!!

Of course, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE KEITH DIAZ still holds the reins of power -- so an election on that date is not a certainty. But the politicking among the RECYCLED CANDIDATES is venomous!!! Phone calls, faxes, emails, texts, tweets, promises of utopi

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Sculpture, steelpan on show at Museum

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday  -- Melissa Doughty

Minister of Community Development Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly experiences the Virtual Steelpan Museum which ran from February 7 to the 28 at the National Museum, Port of Spain.

Port-of-Sp

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A sad day for pan. Condolences to La Brea Nightingales Steel Orchestra, and Terrance "BJ" Marcelle.

A sad day for pan. Though he mostly worked in the background he was a strong advocate for pan in schools and worked hard reviving La Brea Nightingale. Sad to know such a conscious and loving man is now gone. One of the latest murder victims in this

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UK pan players invade Trinidad for Panorama 2018

by Shareen Gray

The trend for UK pan players attending Trinidad Carnival to take part in their Panorama has been happening for decades. Shamefully – as a steelpan industry person – I hadn’t attended until this year, and this was a spontaneous trip ma

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Donate a pan to Cuba

Trinidad Newsday

PAN IN CUBA: Members of La Casa del Caribe incorporate the steelpan in Cuba’s annual Fiesta del Fuego (Fire Festival).

LAUREL V WILLIAMS

MANY attempts were made over the decades at unifying various Caribbean territories over the ye

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