It is official. Pan Trinbago's executive negotiated $500.00 just as Mr. Mohammed (NCC vice chairman) indicated.

Pan players are extremely elated as they collected $500.00 instead of the $1000.00 that was promised. They are so pleased with Mr. Diaz and his executive  that they are now insisting that for 2018 they would like the money even further reduced to $25

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After Grenfell: a carnival to remember

The Guardian

Following the fire at the west London tower block, there were new calls for the Notting Hill carnival to be relocated. But counting down to this year’s event, locals and carnival makers remain adamant that it should stay put – and pay re

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Steelband documentaries debut at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

Three documentaries about steelbands will make their debut at this year’s Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.

James O’Connor’s film To Be A Renegade, captures the story of the BP Renegades through an examination of the violent beginnings of pan, the er

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The Youngest Pan Player Ever

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Notting Hill Carnival: Who Started It?

Wyn Baptiste grew up in Notting Hill believing his dad Selwyn, a Trinidadian steel pan player who arrived in Britain in 1960 and was the first Chair of Notting Hill Carnival Committee, was the man who started Carnival. But the truth isn't quite tha

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Panorama - The Power and the glory of steel

By Shareen Gray BA (Hons), Director of Steel Pan Trust

Ting, ting, ting… the anticipation is like an electric current passing through the crowd in Kensal Road as, after months of dedicated practice, a mighty steelband rings out its first beats.

Pano

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BIG 5 GOIN' DOWN SAN FERNANDO (October 5th) -- DON'T FORGET!!!

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Pan on d’Avenue VI Is On! - Steelbands On Parade

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.  - “On Saturday August 26^th 2017, the Woodbrook/St. James Community Association is once again planning to have Pan on d’Avenue along Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook. The parade route this year is from Taylor Street heading east to

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Revisited -- Crown Heights Woman Arrested While Waging Noise Complaint War On Pre-Carnival Festivities

Check out the comments on the article left by the people gentrifying the traditional NY Pan neighborhoods.

Gothamist

New York, USA - Two Crown Heights venues where locals practice and prepare for J'Ouvert and other West Indian American Day Carnival

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The Melo Groove Steele Orchestra keeping Steel Pan Culture alive

South Florida Caribbean News

by Jason Walker

SOUTH FLORIDA – Steel Pan or steel drums were created in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s. The Steel Pan is a unique form of musical expr

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Guyana’s Steel Orchestra sharing expertise in Barbados

Guyana Times

While participating in Carifesta XIII in Barbados, Guyana’s National Steel Orchesta shared their expertise with a group of Barbadian students, while conducting a training session at a local high school on Friday.

Students of the Bellevi

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Pan Jammin’ to open 2017-2018 HAU season

KEYSER - Highland Arts Unlimited Inc. will open the 2017-2018 season with a free concert by Pan Jammin’ Steel Drum bands on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Church-McKee Auditorium at WVU-Potomac State College.

KEYSER - Highland Arts Unlimite

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Notting Hill Carnival opens with doves released for Grenfell victims

Earlier, the carnival got under way with a traditional paint fight.

The tradition, known as Jouvert, meaning "open of the day", sees revellers hurl paint at each other which dancing to steel bands and African drummers.

Image copyright Getty Images

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PAN TRINBAGO to be audited immediately after CARNIVAL DUST SETTLES -- The Culture Minister Promises!!!

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NY 2017 Panorama postponed due to rain

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The Copper Steel Band: The Sound of the Caribbean

by José Roberto Loo Vázquez

The Copper Steel Band turns 30 this October 18 and is already a symbol of Santiago and Cuba "

If Santiago de Cuba is the Capital of the Caribbean with all its singularities, and the Feast of Fire is the moment where the

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S.N.S.E. (St James North stars Steel orchestra Enterprise) has enforce Copyright's Laws...

S.N.S.E.has enforce it's T&T International Patent and Copyright Act Laws (Chapter 32:80) and 17 U.S.C (section) 104 thru 109, of the U.S. (United States), as of September 18th 1963, November 1999, and July 8th 2003, which means, anyone reproducing sa

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Ebony Steelband retains their UK Junior Steelband Panorama Champions title in 2017

London, UK - Kensington Memorial Park, St Marks Road, London, W10 was transformed into a mini Carnival Village on Monday the 14th August 2017 to accommodate the annual CAPCA/BAS Carnival and Junior Panorama competition.

After months of planning and

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Change is good says J’ouvert president

It’s a new sign of change, but the festival is staying the same.

Earlier this week the city’s police commissioner and the mayor announced that J’ouvert — the annual pre-dawn festive Labor Day parade — will see stricter security regulations similar

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BPTT announces scholarship for Junior Renegades

Loop Magazine

BP Trinidad and Tobago will increase its support for the Renegades Steel Orchestra in 2018. In commemoration of the Junior Renegades' tenth win of Junior Panorama in 2017 and the steel orchestra's 70th anniversary to be celebrated nex

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