THE EDITOR: It is beyond disgraceful that not a single television or radio station saw it fit to broadcast the National Junior Panorama finals on Sunday.
This was a moment for our primary and secondary s
Winning arranger of four out of eight attempts at Pano
"Osuna explained the show was affected by a number of factors including meagre corporate sponsorship, small audiences and a reduction in Government funding.
Osuna said that t
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Former coordinator of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, Dr Anne-Marion Osborne, has passed away after struggling with illness.
In a statement the Department said Dr. Osborne passed away on Saturday.
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - To say that panist, lecturer, pan pioneer Daisy James-McClean has paid her dues in the steel band world is an understatement. The 79-year-old passed through the infamous bottle and stone pelting s
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Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and his Cabinet Ministers visited the Skiffle pan yard located on Coffee Street in San Fernando on Thursday night.
http://newsday.co.tt/2018/02/09/pm-at-skiffle/
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MURDERED: Japanese native Asami Nagakiya, murdered in 2016.
Fear has led to Japanese people virtually blanking TT Carnival this year, almost two years after one of their own, Asami Nagakiya, was strangled and her body dumped under
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It appeared to be divine intervention at work as judges moved from Genesis to Exodus, as the Preliminary round of judging for Large Conventional Bands for the National Panorama competition kicked
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The Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts says the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) has been receiving its funding in parts for the Carnival Season since November of last year.
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Small steel band, Moods Steel Orchestra, is optimistic that they will advance to the Semi Final round of the National Panorama competition.
Leader, Roger Thomas, said the band encountered many challenges, but that didn't deter them from competing
GERARD CLARKE, the PAN TUNER for St. Joseph's Convent (St. Joseph), said it was good to see some of the PRESTIGE SCHOOLS involved in the EVOLUTION OF THE STEELBAND.
Now 69 -- and traveling the WORLD OVER tuning PANS -- Mr. Clarke recalled that as a s
Read more…And with his vast musical background and education and his sophisticated musical ear for PAN -- these samples are going to become the PAN TONES of choice across the GLOBE. So some young music student sitting in the cold in NORWAY who has never ever s
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"PORT of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez has asked Carnival patrons not to urinate on people’s walls."
Lord have Mercy!!! Reminds me of a line in JEAN and Dinah: When ah spread the news around is to see all dem CAVE M
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#StFrancisGirlsRC #YearForLove #FireGoBunDem
Read more…Diaz said Limbo, Calypso, Soca and the Groovy Soca were all different aspects of T&T’s culture and this needed to be marketed now.
“I can’t do it by myself and call for consulta
NOW everybody should be able to wake up and realize the POLITICAL and CULTURAL cards that this man holds in the LAND OF THE STEELBAND. Word on the ground is that he even has Colin Lucas under his thumb -- making him technically in charge of the NCC n
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Newsday January 12, 2018
Weeks before National Panorama finals, Caribbean Airlines has pulled its sponsorship from the Invaders Steel Orchestra because of economic constraints the airline is facing.
http://newsday.co.tt/2018/01/12/cal-pul
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Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was pure music rivalry on a night for love as the seven large conventional steel orchestras in the North Zone competed in the preliminary round for the National Panorama competition last Monday
The smooth sounds of steelbands will be making their festival debut next month.
Hosted at Auckland's Silo Park steelpan orchestras will be playing at the country's first steelband festival.
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago the steelpan is a perc
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