I was just thinkin that they could sell the two SUVs and give each player ah $5, not as payment for 2016 but as ah memento for the only time pan people got together and did something really constructive, then I change my mind and said just give Boogs
Read more…The author of this article, Ann Bailey, has asked that her article be removed.
Read more…My brother in Trinidad just called and informed me of the passing of Wallace Austin. It is an understatement to simply say we have lost another great pan tuner. Wallace Austin represented more than just a great pan tuner, but rather an era of greatn
Read more…By Megan Mitchell - Denver Post
Many of the students in Rick Henson’s steel drums beginners class have already been playing for a year or more. Their affinity for the light and happy percussion p
Read more…ISLAND PEOPLE
The Caribbean and the World
By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
451 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95.
Over three centuries, as many as six million slaves from West Africa arrived in the Caribbean, more than 10 times the number who were settled in what
Richard Lord - Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - ...Several panmen walked out of the meeting, expressing their displeasure over the situation and even called for Diaz’s resignation as leader of the steelband body.
Pan player Dane Gulston s
Read more…Calypsociation Steelband - Panyard Christmas Party No18 (ENGLISH)
Calypsociation Steelband - Christmas Panyard Party No18 (FRENCH)
10th December 2016
07:00 pm (11 Dec) to 05:00 am (11 Dec)
Calypsociation Panyard,
62 Avenue de Metz,
93230 Romainvi
Trinidad Express
Michael Mondezie
...NCC chairman Kenneth De Silva, however, said the North Stand remains the only profit centre in Carnival and so to do away with it completely would not make for good business.
“There are all kind of figures floatin
Read more…-- NY Times
The Pan Trinbago 'Address' Document + the Players Panorama 2016 fees
The PRO of Pan Trinbago, Mr Michael Joseph, eMailed the 'Address' document indicated to all the considered pan media houses on the 27th November 2016. The 'Address' document is av
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Dec 06, 2016 Kaieteur News
In recent years there has been a surge in the participation in and appreciation of steelsteel-a pan music in Guyana.
This resurgence of the art form has been encouraged and promoted by the Ministry of Education, Departmen
by Rebecca Altman -- the Atlantic
Created by a globetrotter, the 55-gallon barrel became one of the best-traveled inventions in human history.
“For a time in American history ... they were everywhere.”..It made me think of Nellie Bly aboard the A
Read more…R I P Mikey, you will be surely missed. Condolences to the entire family. aka: Curly!
Read more…Steelband Condolences to the Alexandrov Ensemble and the Russian people
On behalf of my sisters and brothers of all The Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago, I remain humbly compelled to extend our sincere condolences to; the people of Russia, the assoc
Read more…Players fees 2016 Pan Trinbago under more Stress than previously thought. The payment to all the steelband players that appeared in the TT National Steelband Panorama 2016 is still outstanding as of this date. There has been much controversy in the
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Regrello will be sworn in as an Alderman.
Regrelllo was an Alderman and the Deputy Mayor during the last council.
He was also a former MP and Councillor.
The swearing in for the Council is tentatively carded for Monday.
Read more…By Press Association -- press release
The nation's war dead were remembered during a ceremony attended by the Duke of Cambridge where the Last Post was not played by a bugler - but a steel pan orchestra.
The poignant tune - associated with Armistice
Read more…The Cayman Reporter - By Lindsey Turnbull
A brilliant warm-up to Saturday’s invasion and parade, the annual Pan in De City steel pan competition took place on Thursday 10th November and saw Cayman Prep and High School’s Prep Pantastic take first plac
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