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PanoGrama 2022 line-up Set

11 Countries to feature in PanoGrama 2022

 by: Jodia Givans

PanoGrama made its mark on the entertainment scene, when the COVID-19 pandemic brought physical events to a screeching halt in 2020. Now in its third year, the highly anticipated virtual st

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Carnival returns to Antigua & Barbuda in 2022, but ‘super-spreader’ events axed from the lineup

Observer

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Pan players ramajay at concert without subvention

Trinidad Guardian - by Charles Kong Soo

Single Pan Band Pan Elites performed 'Dingolay' in the Single and Small Pan category during the Pan In De Sancoche, Carnival City, Queen's Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, Saturday.

KERWIN PIERRE

Pan Trinbago pre

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Steel Drum Construction Workshop - Sunrise Spotlight – SKY Science Festival’s Steel Drum Construction Workshop

Workshop area at Mannette Musical Instruments, with tools for constructing a pan drum from a 55-gallon barrel

 

The 2022 SKy Science Festival feature a Steel Drum construction workshop.

During three day workshop (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Apr

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TT Defence Force Steel Orchestra, World Wide Cop ‘Best Performing Band’ Titles in De Sancoche

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Number 13 proved lucky for the winners of the Single Pan and Small Steel Orchestra in “Pan in De Sancoche” at Carnival City, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, last Saturday.

World Wide Steel Orchestra and Tr

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Corruption Capital

I deliberately used “T&T” politics, not PNM politics, because the UNC, when it savoured a first taste of power in the said 1986 election, and later in 1995, 2000, and together with other like-minded politicians in the People’s Partnership in 2

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SXM Festival to debut intriguing fusion of techno and steel pan

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St Francois Girls pays homage to successful steelpan arranger

A St Francois Girls' steel orchestra player during the school's performance in the 2018 Junior Panorama. - ROGER JACOB

Peter Rorry Aleong, arranger of St Francois Girls' College successful pan orchestra, was presented a legacy award by the school i

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When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to director, entrepreneur, and UK panist, Shareen Gray - Women's Month - Their Voice, Their Life, Their Dreams, Their Passion, Their Story

April 4th

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Panman Dane Gulston calls for Taste of Panorama boycott

JENSEN LA VENDE - Newsday

SOUR NOTE: Dane Gulston who is calling on fellow panmen to boycott the Taste of Panorama event. FILE PHOTO -

PANNIST Dane Gulston is encouraging his fraternity to boycott the upcoming Taste of Panorama, calling it a mockery

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Boogsie: Time to reflect on Phase II's legacy

Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, left, on stage with Phase II Pan Groove at Pan Trinbago's Musical Showdown at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on February 26. Photo by Roger Jacob

At 50 years young, Hadco Phase II Pan Groove is celebrated as one of T

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World Wide and T&T Defence Force Steel Orchestras Are Best Playing Bands in De Sancoche

Number 13 proved lucky for the winners of the Single Pan and Small Bands in “Pan in De Sancoche” at Carnival City, Queen’s Park, Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, last Saturday.

Worldwide and Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestras both ca

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A medley of pan and calls for election play out in Arima

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Some Carnival stakeholders have gone into full gear preparing for A

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7-time pan champs Arima Golden Symphony Steel Orchestra homeless

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Arima Golden Symphony steel orchestra has won the small conventional band category in the national Panorama competitio

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Vincy Mas to return after a two-year hiatus

Searchlight

Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, W.I. - The Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) is putting plans in place for the return of the cultural festival, Vincy Mas after a two year hiatus. 

However, the country’s vaccination rate by the en

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Beverley wants three Moore years

Beverley wants three Moore years.

Beverley Ramsey-Moore keeps repeating to the public that Mr. Keith Diaz got three extra years and she can’t understand why it is a problem now under her leadership. 

The conundrum Pan Trinbago has found itself in onc

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[NO MONEY from the PNM GOVERNMENT to SUPPORT THIS EVENT but they are STILL ROLLING] Southex to make Chutney Soca Monarch a safe zone

Guardian 1/13/2022

"Only fully vaccinated artistes, band members, musicians, handlers, workers, stage hands etc will be allowed into the venue for the upcoming Chutney Soca Monarch competition.

This is just one of the stipulations outlined by Southex

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The Ugly Truth about Tobago [This article may not seem to have relevance to THE STEELBAND MOVEMENT to the small minded ... but it is very relevant to everything associated with PROGRESS T&T]

Guardian Feb 3, 2022

“Sick state,” “troubling data” and “records are all over the place” to describe the accounting practices of the dismissed People’s National Movement (PNM) administration of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) by Chief Secretary Fa

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Pan Trinbago president: My team and I have done nothing illegal

Newsday

Police speak to panmen who met locked gates at the PanTrinbago head office on Duke Street in Port of Spain on Monday. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI -

PAN TRINBAGO president Beverly Ramsey-Moore says she and her executive have done nothing wrong o

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How an Impossible Steel Drum Gets Built

The New Yorker - By Richard Preston

Five years ago, Josh Quillen, a member of Sō Percussion, a Brooklyn-based music ensemble, spoke with a maker and tuner of steel drums named Kyle Dunleavy about building a potentially unworkable design. Musical ste

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