The Gleaner - Jamaica
...Ainsworth Mohammed is what we call a 'panman' but one whose strength, whether as a banker or band manager, is the combination of organisational and people skills with foresight and strategic thinking. While dep
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THE steelbands and some fantastic drumming held sway at yesterday’s sessions of the 32nd biennial Music Festival at Queen’s Hall. Under the leadership of veteran Desmond Waithe, the young RIPE Steel Ensembl
Read more…Steel pan music in the Caribbean is normally associated with pulsating soca music, large complicated arrangements during Carnival, and the general rhythm and tempo songs people all around the world look forward to when they visit this
Read more…I need THE CIP to come on THIS FORUM and tell me if this is a TYPO or CIP PROPAGANDA or real numbers from the AUDIT REPORT. If this report is true, I am shocked that the MINISTER OF CULTURE could keep handing out MONEY to PAN TRINBAGO every year and
Read more…Mark Lyndersay writes a weekly column for the Newsday.
IT MIGHT be more accurate to ask what Carnival’s stakeholders want, but the reality of 21st century mas is that it is driven by powerful interests, most of which are self-interests.
The NCC has a
Read more…Well ah RADIO HOST in TRINIDAD made a statement that "CARNIVAL IS ABOUT WOMAN" implying to some that the TOBAGO CARNIVAL just cannot be about "BLACK TOBAGO WOMAN" so they will have to import some "NICE WOMEN" from Trinidad and elsewhere for the TOBAG
Read more…"J’Ouvert bands are resisting the suggestion that they be shifted from Woodbrook and environs to Port-of-Spain for the 2019 Carnival celebrations.
They claim that such a move to the capit
Read more…Mr. Diaz failed in his attempt to “chain up” band leaders; North Zone rejected him.
By Aquil Arrindell
Mr Diaz attempted to discredit the rest of the executive during a Northern Region meeting, on Thursday 15th March, 2018. The meeting was held a
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Marc Mahase receives the Newdsay Cup from Leslie Alfonso after topping the Acoustic Guitar Solo class at the Music Festival at Queen’s Hall on Friday.
GARY CARDINEZ
THE sweetness of TT’s music rang through Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s on
Read more…Trinidad Newsday - Melissa Doughty
WHILE the streets of East Port of Spain might have seemed like a scene of utter anarchy on Monday, a flower of positivity blooms. Teneisha Campbell is yet another Trinbagonian and a former La Cou Harpe, Observatory
Read more…Massive stampede to the PAN TRINBAGO SEAT OF POWER!!!
At least 25 candidates to vie for leadership position!!!
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By Aquil Arrindell
South Trinidad has lost one of its long-standing bass players, Mr. Frederick Chatterpaul. One of the most unassuming of individuals you would ever meet. I knew him personally because he brought his son to me at San City Steel
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News that Sussex Steel had been nominated for the Tesco Bags of Help initiative was music to the ears of members.
Now, the band is calling for support from shoppers during March and April, when votes in store will decide how grants of up to £4,000,
Read more…Well when they spread the news around, if yuh see all dem old RECYCLED BANDITS coming to town.
Everybody want to be the NEXT PRESIDENT of PAN TRINBAGO. Long line of BANDITS just hoping to carry on the tradition of ROBBING PAN MEN BLIND. Reminds me of
Read more…Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly & Minister Shamfa Cudjoe
What were some of the improvements on the cards for next year's celebrations, what are economic benefits that can be derived?
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Music Festival adjudicator Belinda Mikhail critiques the performances yesterday at the Naparima Bowl in San Fernando.
YVONNE WEBB
YOUNG people continued to shine yesterday as they showcased their talents in the final leg of the preliminaries of th
Read more…Miranda La Rose Newsday February 22, 2018
Calypso needs to be independent of the National Carnival Commission, he said, and should account directly to Government. “Calypso is suffering. When I go on a stage now and I see ten people in the audience an
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Socadromea huge success
SWEET FOR DAYS: A reveller in the band Bliss, plays her mas yesterday at the Socadrome in the Jean Pierre Complex.
CAROL MATROO
While most venues in Port of Spain suffered from poor crowd turnout for Carniva
Read more…22-year-old DJ and producer Travis Hosein created the now-famous musical composition for Soca Kingdom, which was produced along with lyrical composer Joseph Figueroa and soca legends Machel Montano and Austin 'Superblue' Lyons. [ ... and a 24-year-ol
Read more…PANORAMA/ CARNIVAL 2018
It is not surprising, and is nothing new, but very unfortunate when the Steelpan, the Panist, and the administrators of the National Instruments of this independent Republican Nation could be taken for granted, misused and abu
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